Which of the following statements are correct?: I. An agency cost is the value lost when...

 

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Which of the following statements are correct?: I. An agency cost is the value lost when managers do not act to maximize shareholder wealth, but is reduced by the amount of the cost borne by outside shareholders to monitoring and control the CEO. II. Empire building refers to the initiation of capital budgeting projects with the aim of investing for size, not shareholder wealth and is often a prediction of the free cash flow hypothesis. One resolution to this problem is to issue debt rather than equity when need for capital arises. III. In an entrenching investment, managers choose or design investment projects that increase their own value to the firm thereby making them more difficult to fire. IV. In the free-rider problem, when one shareholder (or group of shareholders) acts to monitor and control management, all shareholders benefit. Il only I and IV only II and III only II, III, and IV only I, II, III, and IV Which of the following statements are correct?: I. An agency cost is the value lost when managers do not act to maximize shareholder wealth, but is reduced by the amount of the cost borne by outside shareholders to monitoring and control the CEO. II. Empire building refers to the initiation of capital budgeting projects with the aim of investing for size, not shareholder wealth and is often a prediction of the free cash flow hypothesis. One resolution to this problem is to issue debt rather than equity when need for capital arises. III. In an entrenching investment, managers choose or design investment projects that increase their own value to the firm thereby making them more difficult to fire. IV. In the free-rider problem, when one shareholder (or group of shareholders) acts to monitor and control management, all shareholders benefit. Il only I and IV only II and III only II, III, and IV only I, II, III, and IV

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