2001
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L'Actualité économique ; vol. 77 no. 1 (2001)
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Patrick Sentis, « Sous-investissement et suppression d’effectifs : vers une réduction des coûts d’agence », L'Actualité économique, ID : 10.7202/602342ar
This paper argues that the agency costs of under-investment could be eliminated when the levered firm takes the possibility to reduce its employees. We focus on the effect of employees reductions on wealth of stakeholders in the unlevered and levered firms. Bondholders and employees only benefit from these operations. It is shown that an optimal capital structure exists and that the levered firm value is more than the unlevered firm value.