Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/92467 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
CSIO Working Paper No. 0105
Publisher: 
Northwestern University, Center for the Study of Industrial Organization (CSIO), Evanston, IL
Abstract: 
We characterize a firm's profit-maximizing turnover policy in an environment where managerial productivity changes stochastically over time and is the managers' private information. Our key positive result shows that the productivity level that the firm requires for retention declines with the managers' tenure in the firm. Our key normative result shows that, compared to what is efficient, the profit-maximizing policy either induces excessive retention (i.e., inefficiently low turnover) at all tenure levels, or excessive firing at the early stages of the relationship followed by excessive retention after sufficiently long tenure.
Subjects: 
managerial turnover
termination clauses
dynamic mechanism design
adverse selection
moral hazard
JEL: 
D82
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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