This study examines recommendations made by brokerage and non-brokerage firms to evaluate the differential agency costs across three unique production environments. The results highlight and outline the inherent differences between brokerage and non-brokerage firms' recommendations.

Private placement debt issues are more effective than public bonds in resolving information asymmetries and controlling moral hazard problems. Firms that issue only private placements (non-switchers) are found to have more information problems than firms that have access to the public bond...