Corporate Financial Structure, Incentives and Optimal Contracting
Rodney L White Center for Financial Research 15-94
Posted: 6 Aug 1999
Date Written: June 7, 1994
Abstract
The firm can be regarded as consisting of several groups of investors and managers whose interests are regulated by the contracts between them. This survey covers the literature that looks at the nature of optimal financial contracts in the face of various asymmetries of information, control and type. Five areas are considered: (i) costly state verification and agency; (ii) adverse selection; (iii) the allocation of control rights among investors and the design of ownership structure; (iv) the allocation of risk and (v) acquisition of information.
JEL Classification: G3, G32
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