“…It follows DeMarzo and Sannikov (2006), Biais et al (2007), Sannikov (2008), andZhu (2013) in modeling productivity management. It belongs to the broad research on risk management in static settings (e.g., Diamond (1998), Biais and Casamatta (1999), Palomino and Prat (2003), Hellwig (2009), and Ray and Robson (2012)) and in dynamic settings (Makarov and Plantin (2015), Barron, Georgiadis, and Swinkels (2020)). These studies typically have a 1-dimensional agency problem: The agent either chooses effort or risk.…”