This paper considers a financing problem for an innovative firm that is launching a web-based platform. The entrepreneur, on one hand, faces a large degree of demand uncertainty on his product and on the other hand has to deal with incentive problems of professional blockchain participants who...

Chatty and Saez (2004) argued that more Principal-Agent models explaining firm dividend policy are expected and subsequently offered a model of dividend policy that includes a tax on dividends and agency problems (Chatty and Saez (2007)). In this paper we extent their model by adding a tax on...

We consider a principal-agent relationship, where the agent is subject to a double moral hazardproblem (the choice of production effort and earnings manipulation). Since the agent cannot completely capture the results of his effort, the production effort is socially inefficient. The opportunity...