PRODUCTION OF INFORMATION: MONITORING
You have seen that the
principal agent problem arises because managers have more information about
their activities and actual profits than stockholders do. One way for stockholders
to reduce this moral hazard problem is for them to engage in a particular type of
information production, the monitoring of the firm s activities: auditing the firm
frequently and checking on what the management is doing. The problem is that
the monitoring process can be expensive in terms of time and money, as reflected
in the name economists give it,
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