Individual wage bargaining in business cycles disrupts welfare theorems and hiring.
The paper looks at how wage bargaining affects business cycles in models that include both labor and capital. When capital is involved, the type of bargaining used can impact outcomes, even with perfect competition. Individual bargaining leads to issues like hold-ups in capital and hiring externalities, which means just solving a planner's problem isn't enough. The study explores how business cycles change in a decentralized model with individual bargaining using different calibration methods.