The financial crisis that began in the United States in 2007 and spread into a deep worldwide recession focused attention on agency costs in leveraged firms. Particular attention was given to the incentives of shareholders in such firms to overinvest (known as the "risk-shifting" problem) or...

This study examines whether and how CEO equity incentives relate to financing choices (i.e., debt and leases). Using manually collected CEO compensation and lease data for a sample of large UK firms, we found evidence of a negative relationship between CEO equity incentives and firm leverage. We...

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between capital structure and Employees' wage costs and compensation of the board of directors in Iran. The paper sample consists of 968 observation and 121 firms listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange during 2011-2018. The...