In this paper we analyze a publicly-traded firm's decision to stay public or go private in a setting in which managerial autonomy from shareholder intervention affects the supply of productive inputs by management. With public ownership, the shareholder base of the firm is subject to stochastic...

This paper examines the determinants of organizational scale and scope, with applications to various industries, including financial services. We build a model in which new opportunities arise for firms, but the skills needed to exploit them effectively are unknown. Early investments in these...

We examine how the firm's initial owners design the control rights of bondholders and new shareholders and the manner in which these control rights interact with the manager's choice of the firm's capital structure. Even though the manager's objective is to maximize the terminal wealth of the...

The increasingly competitive environment poses challenges to bankers. This paper emphasizes relationship banking as a prime source of the banks' comparative advantage. The proliferation of transaction-oriented banking (trading and financial market activities) does however seriously challenge...