This paper examines the implications of corporate manager's tendency to promote her private benefits by realizing inefficient investments that incurs a cost for shareholders in terms of lost shareholder value. Under reasonable conditions, we derive an expression for such a loss and propose a...

Start-up entrepreneurs are often commercially inexperienced. In giving managerial advice, venture capitalists can importantly enhance the success of innovative but highly risky ventures. The supply of experienced venture capitalists is not eas-ily increased, however, when the rate of business...