Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. David Kindness is a Certified Public ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Michael Boyle is an experienced financial ...

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 ...

There's one argument floating around out there about the soaring inequality of the modern day and the manner in which CEO pay at public companies has risen so much. That argument being that as ...

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 ...

Gen. David Petraeus’ Ph.D. is in international relations, not economics, but he clearly understands the microeconomic phenomenon known as the “principal-agent problem.” Overcoming it is the key ...

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 ...

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 ...

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 90, No. 4 (Nov., 2008), pp. 1091-1102 (12 pages) Traceability can link the identity of cattle feeders with retail beef cuts. The economic problem for ...

Michael Douglas, in his Academy Award winning portrayal of Gordon Gekko in the movie “Wall Street,” declares in his famous “greed” speech that the company has “33 different vice presidents” that are ...