This paper investigates the relationship between agency cost, ownership structure and corporate governance mechanisms. Though previous studies of agency problems, corporate governance mechanisms or ownership variables suffer from endogeneity, with respect to the corporate governance it is...

This study investigates the link between female board directors and company financial performance and agency costs in Sri Lanka's publicly listed companies. In order to investigate the impact of board gender diversity on firm financial performance a dynamic panel generalised method of moment...

This paper discusses a small business based investigation of principal-agent and principal-principal dimensions of agency cost. Panel data for 11 years to 2008, covering a sample of small businesses not listed on a stock exchange, are examined using multivariate statistical techniques. The...

The study uses panel data to investigate agency costs, both principal-agent (PA) and principal-principal (PP), in 240 small businesses not listed on the New Zealand Stock Exchange. Results show that both forms of agency cost vary according to industry, the life of the business and size. The...

The article focuses on the agency cost of Indian banks. The researchers have worked on data covering a data period from 2005 to 2013 which covers the pre-crisis, crisis and post-crisis period. Two proxies for agency cost have been taken to arrive at conclusions after applying appropriate tests....