FRIC/Finance Seminar with Boris Nikolov, University of Lausanne

On September 2, 2016 Boris Nikolov, University of Lausanne will present "Agency Conflicts Around the World"

Friday, September 2, 2016 - 11:00 to 12:15

FRIC Center for Financial Frictions and the Department of Finance are proud to announce the upcoming seminar with Boris Nikolov, University of Lausanne.

Boris Nikolov will present

PDF icon Agency Conflicts Around the World

Authors:
Erwan Morellec, EPFL
Boris Nikolov, University of Lausanne
Norman Schürhoff, University of Lausanne

ABSTRACT
We use a dynamic model of financing decisions to quantify agency conflicts across legal and institutional environments and decompose their effects into wealth transfers among stakeholders and value losses from policy distortions. Our estimates show that agency costs are large and vary widely across and within countries. Legal origin and provisions for investor protection affect agency costs, but they are more relevant for curtailing governance excesses than guarding the typical firm. Agency costs split about equally into wealth transfers and value losses from policy distortions, the latter being larger where ownership is dispersed. Incentive misalignment captures 60% of country variation in leverage.

Location:
Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg
Room: SPs13

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