Finance

One principal-agent conflict is that between a firm’s creditors (as a

One principal-agent conflict is that between a firm’s creditors (as a principal) and its shareholders (as agent). For example, after issuing risky debt, stockholders have an incentive to increase the riskiness of the firm’s assets (e.g. , by changing operating strategy), which would tend to expropriate wealth from creditors to stockholders. Which of the assumptions […]

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Date: September 19th, 2020