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New Perspectives on Informational Asymmetry and Agency Relationships

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Robert A. Haugen  and
Lemma W. Senbet
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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.

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I. Incentive Signaling Models and Rational Expectations
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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , November 1979 , pp. 671 - 694
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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1979

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