Principals and agents : the structure of business / edited by John W. Pratt and Richard J. Zeckhauser ; contributors, Kenneth J. Arrow ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pratt, John W. (John Winsor), 1931-

Zeckhauser, Richard.

Series:

Research colloquium (Harvard University. Graduate School of Business Administration)

Research colloquium / Harvard Business School

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Management--Congresses.

Management.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 241 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, [1985]

Contents:

Principals and agents / John W. Pratt and Richard J. Zeckhauser

The economics of agency / Kenneth J. Arrow

Agency costs versus fiduciary duties / Robert C. Clark

Insider trading as an agency problem / Frank H. Easterbrook

Empirical evidence of incentive problems and their mitigation in oil and gas tax shelter programs / Mark A. Wolfson

Agency costs, employment contracts, and labor unions / Richard A. Epstein

Transfer pricing as a problem of agency / Robert G. Eccles

Agency as control / Harrison C. White.

Notes:

Proceedings from one of a series of conferences held at the Harvard Business School in 1984.

Includes bibliographies and index.

ISBN:

0875841643

OCLC:

11621005