Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, c1985.

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Additional Authors

• Pratt, John W. (John Winsor), 1931-
• Zeckhauser, Richard.

Description

x, 241 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Research colloquium / Harvard Business School

Uniform Title

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

Subject

• Management > Congresses

Note

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

Call Number

JLE 86-2290

ISBN

0875841643 (alk. paper)

LCCN

84029039

OCLC

• 11621005
• 11621005

Title

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

Imprint

Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, c1985.

Series

Research colloquium / Harvard Business School

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

Bibliography

Includes bibliographies and index.

Added Author

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

Zeckhauser, Richard.

Research Call Number

JLE 86-2290