Efficiency and financial constraints

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Project objective

The project will focus on the analysis of financial constraints from a normative standpoint. We will characterize the optimal financial contract when the social value of investment exceeds the private value. If the ex post revenues are privately observed by firms, the threat to terminate funding solves the agency issue. Then, there is a trade-off between inducing truth reporting and realizing socially valuable investments. Therefore, from a welfare perspective, it may be optimal to provide a long purse" to firms even in this context. We will analyze not only the optimal level of funds but also the structure of financing. For that purpose, we have to address the issue of the existence of multiple creditors. The recent insights of the multiprincipal theory will be used to derive the results. We will apply this analysis to the European economic policies concerning the financing of less-favored areas and the investments of multinational firms engaged in imperfect competition."

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Participants

• LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE · LONDONCoordinatorUnited Kingdom
• Not availableCity levelFrance

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