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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis Vol. 14 No. 4 1979

New Perspectives on Informational Asymmetry and Agency Relationships

Robert A. Haugen; Lemma W. Senbet

Abstract

The two related problems of agency and informational asymmetry have received increasing attention in finance. In particular, prominent authors in this area (e.g., Jensen and Meckling [7], Ross [15, 16], Leland and Pyle [10], etc.) have demonstrably argued that the financial structure of the firm can be determined in the process of eliminating, or at least reducing, the costs associated with these problems.

DOI
10.2307/2330443
Volume
14
Issue
4
Pages
671
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