edited by R. Glenn Hubbard
University of Chicago Press, 1990
Cloth: 978-0-226-35585-6 | eISBN: 978-0-226-35594-8
Library of Congress Classification HG4006.A89 1990
Dewey Decimal Classification 658.15

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In this volume, specialists from traditionally separate areas in economics and finance investigate issues at the conjunction of their fields. They argue that financial decisions of the firm can affect real economic activity—and this is true for enough firms and consumers to have significant aggregate economic effects. They demonstrate that important differences—asymmetries—in access to information between "borrowers" and "lenders" ("insiders" and "outsiders") in financial transactions affect investment decisions of firms and the organization of financial markets. The original research emphasizes the role of information problems in explaining empirically important links between internal finance and investment, as well as their role in accounting for observed variations in mechanisms for corporate control.