This paper examines the effects of the Mexican debt mora torium in August 1982 on bank valuation. The Mexican default resulted in the passage of regulations requiring public disclosure of bank fo reign-lending exposure. The authors find that, even in the absence of public disclosure regulations,...

The expense-preference theory of the firm implies that in noncompetitive product markets, managers hire labor beyond the profit-maximizing level. This theory has recently received empirical support from Edwards (1977) and Hannan and Mavinga (1980). In this article it is shown that for...