Learn about the fascinating economic concept of incentive leakage in a 12-minute video that explores how multiple layers of principal-agent relationships within corporate structures can actually diminish the effects of corporate greed. Discover how the principal-agent problem, particularly when present across various management levels in a company, creates a unique dynamic that unexpectedly serves to weaken perverse incentives rather than amplify them.
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Incentive Leakage: How the Principal-Agent Problem Weakens Corporate Greed
Taught by
Ashley Hodgson