The paper compares the optimal financial contracts of a firm which has private information over its expost revenues when the finance can be provided by a single or by two groups investors. Costly monitoring can be carried out only by one group of investors. When they are the only investors we...

Within a costly state verification setting, we derive the optimal financial contract between an entrepreneur, a (potentially financing) supervisor and a pure investor when there is non-verifiable and non-contractible monitoring and limited liability. We show that diversion of cash flows to the...