Explore how the principal-agent problem affects government efficiency, elected officials, and industry interactions, causing ...

Why exclude state-owned enterprises (SOEs) from equity allocations? This a natural first question investors tend to ask when they hear of WisdomTree’s suite of ex-state-owned equity ETFs. The ...

Blockchain technology produced a new business model; one that enables companies to profit through creating and releasing open-source code. The decentralisation of business orgs creates new corporate ...

When a principal hires an agent to carry out specific tasks, the hiring is termed a "principal-agent relationship," or simply an "agency relationship." When a conflict of interest between the needs of ...

Focus is on the relationship between upper-level management and stockholders -- categories which overlap when the owner is the manager. Although J&M clearly believe that agency problems within the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The principal-agent problem in health care asserts that providers, being the imperfect agents of patients, will act to maximize their profits ...

Mihir Desai, a professor of Harvard Business School and the author of "Wisdom of Finance" explains why having shareholders who are separate from the managers hold great danger for finance today.

The relationship between business owners and business management gets complicated when they're not the same people. One approach to understanding it is agency theory: Managers are agents for the ...

Global regulators, including the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), are working on providing clear definitions to clarify what constitutes ...