Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/17833 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 968
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute of World Economics (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
The paper shows that, as owners accumulate larger stakes and hence become less risk-tolerant, their incentives to monitor management are attenuated because monitoring shifts some of the firm's risk from management to owners. This counterbalances the positive effect which more concentrated ownership has on monitoring via reduced free rider problems. Moreover, the paper shows how the opportunity cost of concentrated ownership, which is the loss of risk-sharing benefits, creates scope to use leverage as an additional complementary governance instrument. The paper offers new explanations for several empirical regularities found in the literature.
Subjects: 
Corporate governance
Complementarity
Agency problem
JEL: 
G30
D23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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