..................................................................................... 4 3.1 Cornerstones of dividend policy ................................................................................................. 4 3.2 Equity Agency Cost Theory........................................................................................................ 5 3.3 Remedies to Agency Conflicts and their Costs ........................................................................... 5 3.4 Jensen’s Free
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CHAPTER 4: Duty of agent on termination of agency CHAPTER 5: Conclusion Bibliography CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ‘’Agent’’ and ‘’principal’’ are defined in Section 182 of the Indian Contract Act‚ 1872 in the following words: 182."Agent" and "principal" defined.-An "agent" is a person employed to do any act for another or to represent another in dealings with third persons. The person for whom such act is done‚ or who is so represented‚ is called the "principal". The expression
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However‚ besides losing the tax shield from debt‚ high equity financing leads to an increasingly diffused ownership‚ which would in turn causes problems such as shareholder – management principal – agent problem and asymmetric information problem. Principal – agent problem: As agent of the shareholder (principal)‚ management should aim at maximizing shareholders’ value‚ i.e. the market value of the equity. However‚ management tends to serve its own interests. In order to make management act in line
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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 (Jensen‚ Michael C.‚ and William H. Meckling. "Theory of the Firm‚ Managerial Behavior‚ Agency
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profits only if it is subject to the possibility of being lost. Investopedia - Risk-Return Tradeoff. (2014). Retrieved from http://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/riskreturntradeoff.asp Agency (principal and agent problems) Conflicts of interest and moral hazard issues that arise when a principal hires an agent to perform specific duties
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QUESTION 2 INTRODUCTION Agency theory is a model that explicate why performance or judgment differ when display by member of a group. Specifically‚ it explains the connection between the party‚ called the principal that delegates work to another‚ called the agent. It clarify their dissimilarity in performance or judgment by noting that the two parties regularly have different goals and‚ independent of their respective goals‚ may have unusual manner toward threat. In another words‚ it can be also
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perspective‚ restraints and loopholes indeed exist in the current context of economy. 2 The Current Pay System In the beginning of 1990s‚ a high level of executive compensation has already been regarded as an effective measure to solve the principal-agent problem within a company‚ that is‚ to align the benefit of shareholders and executive managers. It’s believed that the rise in executive pay serves as strong incentives‚ and conceivably‚ it could be stronger with a larger sum of money (Jenson
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“Culture eats strategy for lunch!” This is how Peter Drucker sarcastically describes the importance of the strategy for a company and how employees will make or change this strategy in order to create a culture that fits with the company’s growth. Two different perspectives regarding the growing of the family businesses over the years and remaining innovative are communicated with the psychiatrist Professor Fritz B. Simon and the economist Professor Benoit Leleux. According to the Professor Fritz
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Chapter 1: Problem 2. Explain several dimensions of the shareholder-principal conflict with manager agents known as the principal-agent problem. To mitigate agency problems between senior executives and shareholders‚ should the compensation committee of the board devote more to executive salary and bonus (cash compensation) or more to long-term incentives? Why? What role does each type of pay play in motivating managers? The compensation committee should devote more to long-term incentives for
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January 8‚ 2001 under the title "Why Pay People to Lie?" Jensen‚ Michael C. and William H. Meckling. 1976. "Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior‚ Agency Costs‚ and Ownership Structure." Journal of Financial Economics‚ V. 3‚ No. 4: October‚ pp. 305-360. Available from the Social Science Research Network eLibrary at: http://papers.ssrn.com/Abstract=94043. Reprinted in The Modern Theory of Corporate Finance‚ Michael C. Jensen and Clifford W. Smith‚ Jr.‚ Editors‚ New York: McGrawHill‚ Inc.‚ 1984
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