Hughes, Joseph P.; Moon, Choon-Geol - 2003
An empirical model of managers' demand for agency goods is derived and estimated using the Almost Ideal Demand System … of Deaton and Muellbauer (AER 1980). As in Jensen and Meckling (JFE 1976), we derive managers' demand for agency goods by … maximizing a managerial utility function where managers allocate the potential value of their firm's assets to the consumption of …