Covenants to provide information.
Restrictive covenants also require a
borrowing firm to provide information about its activities periodically in the
form of quarterly financial statements, thereby making it easier for the lender
to monitor the firm and reduce moral hazard. This type of covenant may also
stipulate that the lender has the right to audit and inspect the firm s books at
any time.
We now see why debt contracts are often complicated legal documents with
numerous restrictions on the borrower s behaviour (fact 8): debt contracts require
complicated restrictive covenants to lower moral hazard.
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