Authors:

  • Mark Roe

Excerpt

Structural Corporate Degradation Due to Too-Big-To-Fail Finance. Mark Roe, April 9, 2014, Paper. "Corporate governance incentives at too-big-to-fail financial firms deserve systematic examination. For industrial conglomerates that have grown too large to be efficient, internal and external corporate structural pressures push to resize the firm. External activists press the firm to restructure to raise its stock market value. Inside the firm, boards and managers see that the too-big firm can be more efficient and more profitable if restructured via spin-offs and sales..."