Economic models routinely assume firms maximize shareholder wealth; however common law legal systems only require that officers and directors pursue the interests of the corporation, leaving this ill-defined. Economic arguments for shareholder wealth maximization derived from shareholders'...

Mutual funds are significant blockholders in many corporations. Concerns that funds vote in a pro-management manner to garner lucrative pensions contracts led the SEC to mandate the disclosure of proxy votes. We present a model of mutual fund voting in the presence of potential business ties. We...

This study investigates the association between auditors monitoring and dividend payout policy. The previous literature illustrate that there are two ways to mitigate the agency concern; One is through dividend payments while other way of mitigating agency concern is to improve auditors...