costly state verification
. Costly state verification
makes the equity contract less desirable, and it explains, in part, why equity is not
a more important element in our financial structure.
As with adverse selection, the free-rider problem decreases the amount of
information production that would reduce the moral hazard (principal agent)
problem. In this example, the free-rider problem decreases monitoring. If you
know that other stockholders are paying to monitor the activities of the company
you hold shares in, you can take a free ride on their activities. Then you can use
the money you save by not engaging in monitoring to vacation on a Caribbean
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