The Business of Motion Picture Production and Distribution -- Co-Financing Film Projects with External Investors -- Principal Agent Problems in Co-Financing Relationships -- Empirical Investigation of Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard -- Managerial Implications and Developments in the...

Das Buch gibt einen umfassenden Einblick in die Vertragstheorie vor dem Hintergrund finanzwirtschaftlicher Entscheidungen. Die Analyse der typischen vertragstheoretischen Probleme des Moral Hazard, der Adverse Selection und des Signalling sowie aktueller Forschungsfragen zur Theorie der Firma...

International Joint Ventures (IJVs) combine the resources of local and foreign firms to create independent business entities that are able to avoid the risks of cross-border transactions and to gain access to new markets. Despite these advantages, the failure rate of IJVs is very high. This book...

Moral hazard--the tendency to change behavior when the cost of that behavior will be borne by others--is a particularly tricky question when considering health care. Kenneth J. Arrow's seminal 1963 paper on this topic (included in this volume) was one of the first to explore the implication of...