Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/17791 
Year of Publication: 
1999
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 931
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute of World Economics (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
This paper provides a rationale for the coexistence of different systems of corporate governance based on the multitude of agency problems typically to be governed within a given firm. Because there are complementarity and substitution relationships between governance instruments, specific combinations of instruments which reinforce each other in minimizing agency costs fit together better than alternative combinations. We derive comparative static results showing how various governance instruments can be combined to form a coherent system of corporate governance and how changes in exogenous parameters can lead to simultaneous, systemic changes in the instruments used.
Subjects: 
Corporate governance
Complementarity
Agency problem
JEL: 
D23
G30
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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