Blockchain technology produced a new business model; one that enables companies to profit through creating and releasing open-source code. The decentralisation of business orgs creates new corporate ...

When a principal hires an agent to carry out specific tasks, the hiring is termed a "principal-agent relationship," or simply an "agency relationship." When a conflict of interest between the needs of ...

If business is to address its conflicts with an expanding government, it must ensure that its external relations departments are well managed. To do so, corporate managers must manage the border ...

Why exclude state-owned enterprises (SOEs) from equity allocations? This a natural first question investors tend to ask when they hear of WisdomTree’s suite of ex-state-owned equity ETFs. The ...

Peter Gratton, Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing, risk management, and public policy. Peter began covering markets at Multex (Reuters) ...

This paper expands the literature on the heterogeneity among nursing home facilities by determining whether quality at for-profit nursing homes managed by owner-managers is different from those ...

The cost of college textbooks has risen 812 percent since 1978. That’s more than triple the inflation rate over the same period of time, according to The Atlantic. So what gives? Textbook costs are a ...

Over the years there have been a number of attempts at solving the principal/agent problem. Apple's the latest to try and do so and it has to be said that their attempt is likely to avoid most of the ...