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Agency Costs and Financial Decision-Making The Concept An agency relationship is a contract under which one or more persons (the principal(s)) engage another person (the agent) to perform some service on their behalf which involves delegating some decision making authority to the agent. If both parties to the relationship are utility maximizers and they may have divergent goals and objectives, and there is good reason to believe that the agent will not always act in the best interests of the

Agency Costs and Financial Decision-Making The Concept An agency relationship is a contract under which one or more persons (the principal(s)) engage another person (the agent) to perform some service on their behalf which involves delegating some decision making authority to the agent. If both parties to the relationship are utility maximizers and they may have divergent goals and objectives, and there is good reason to believe that the agent will not always act in the best interests of the principal

Free Cash Flow, Issuance Costs, and Macroeconomics Risk  Qiaozhi Hu Questrom School of Business Boston University June 30, 2015  I thank Dirk Hackbarth, Andrew Lyaso and MF930 participants at Boston University for helpful comments. Send correspondence to Qiaozhi Hu, Boston University Questrom School of Business, 595 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215, USA; telephone: (732)809-1105. E-mail: qiaozhih@bu.edu. 1 Free Cash Flow, Issuance Costs, and Macroeconomics Risk Abstract This research proposal

Wk1 DQs What is meant by an "agency cost" or "agency problem"? Do these interfere with shareholder wealth maximization? Why? What mechanisms minimize these costs/problems? Are executive compensation contracts effective in mitigating these costs/problems? Our textbook defines an agency problem as a “conflict between the goals of a firm’s owners and its managers” (Megginson & Smart, 2009). It then defines agency costs as dollar costs that arise because of this conflict. In the corporate structure

corporate governance and the impact agency theory has on it. Agency theory looks at the conflict of interest between people with different interests in the same assets. It is important to look at the aspects of agency theory as it is an important part of organisation behaviour and is integral to corporate governance. Agency cost, the cost incurred by a company due to agency conflict and agency theory is sometimes used as an independent aspect and at times jointly with agency theory. For good corporate governance

privatisations, but all of the procedures are most likely to depend on the quality of contracts and regulation in each circumstance. For this reason, this essay will examine: firstly, the agency costs that seem to occur in state-owned companies, secondly a privatisation will be analysed as a result from those costs. Thirdly,

of Problem Recent years, agency problem gradually becomes a hot issue and attract many researchers. The researchers try to find the cause and effect concerned with agency problems, such as dividend payouts, corporate governance and so on. As the existence of productivity development and large-scale production, principal-agent relationship is widespread in various areas. However, when management and ownership in a company are separate, this action leads to the rising agency problems. The manager who

Smith, 1985), the agency problem. Firms have two types of financial resources: shareholders and debt holders, each type has a different concern. While shareholders are wealth maximisation focused, debt holders are concerned with the ability of the firm of paying them back - with an agreed-upon interest rate. As

the normal market returns adjusted for risk. In accordance to this, MM provided assumptions to support their findings. These assumptions can be characterized by the existence of a perfect capital market where; • there is no taxes or transactional costs • there is free accessibility to information about market • no buyer or seller has significant influence on the ruling share prices • investors are rational and risk averse, meaning they will always value securities with higher returns than securities

supported my choice of Hypothesis and research framework. Agency Cost Theory: The dividend policy looks into agency problems between corporate insiders and outside shareholder. Agency conflicts comes up when there is an agency relationship between people this relationship is a contract under which more than one person engage another person to perform some service on their behalf which involves giving some decision-making authority to the agent. The agency conflict is a conflict of interest between corporate