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Cambridge Finance Workshop Series are usually held on Thursdays during term time. The workshops are an opportunity for those working in finance to present their latest results or papers.

Adeplhe Ekponon (Cambridge Judge Business School)

Title

Agency Conflicts, Macroeconomic Risk, and Asset Prices

 

Abstract

This paper develops a dynamic corporate finance model with macroeconomic risk to study the effect of conflicts between insiders and outside investors on the cost of equity. Agency conflicts, resulting from insiders’ willingness to favor their own interests at the expense of the firm are costly and reduce firms’ profit. They are also exposed to the business cycle, leading to time-varying agency costs. To test the model, I use top measures of agency conflicts and merge them with stock returns. The difference in the average value of these indexes in bad compared to good times is positively correlated to the cost of equity, even after controlling for preeminent market factors. Hence, firms with better governance in bad times have a lower cost of equity. Data are from 1990 to 2006.

Date: 
Thursday, 31 October, 2019 - 12:30 to 13:30
Contact name: 
Kat Tali
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Contact phone: 
01223768129
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Event location: 
W2.02, Cambridge Judge Business School
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