Discover strategies to resolve agency conflicts in corporations, including monitoring, incentives, and contract design, to ...

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The bond rating industry’s 100th anniversary is this year. Rating agencies have lately been in the news and before congressional committees for less salutary reasons—the role that they played in ...

Almost no one disputes that the rating agencies played a major role in bringing on the financial crisis. To further investigate the mistakes they made, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and ...

The relationship between business owners and business management gets complicated when they're not the same people. One approach to understanding it is agency theory: Managers are agents for the ...

The administration’s Centers of Excellence (CoE) initiative has “pivoted” from applying all its areas of expertise to agency problems to only the most relevant ones, according to the acting executive ...

SOMEONE WISE once said that all the problems of capitalism are agency problems. Agency costs arise when somebody (the principal) delegates a task to somebody else (the agent) and their interests are ...

Read full article: Man killed in west Bexar County Christmas Eve shooting identified San Antonio police said one man is recovering after he suffered multiple stab wounds in a heated argument over ...

The first five months of 2020 sent a parade of “wicked problems” around the globe, including a plague of locusts in Asia and Africa, bushfires in Australia and, of course, the COVID-19 pandemic.