Financial Constraints and Moral Hazard: The Case of Franchising

Ying Fan (), Kai-Uwe Kuhn () and Francine Lafontaine ()

No 4474, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: Financial constraints are an important impediment to the growth of small businesses. We study theoretically and empirically how the financial constraints of agents affect their decisions to exert effort, and, hence the organizational decisions and growth of principals, in the context of franchising. We find that a 30 percent decrease in average collateralizable housing wealth in a region delays chains’ entry into franchising by 0.28 years on average, 9 percent of the average waiting time, and slows their growth by around 10 percent, leading to a 10 percent reduction in franchised chain employment.

Keywords: contracting; incentives; principal-agent; empirical; collateralizable housing wealth; entry; growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D22 D82 L14 L22 L80 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Journal Article: Financial Constraints and Moral Hazard: The Case of Franchising (2017)
Working Paper: Financial constraints and moral hazard: The case of franchising (2016)
Working Paper: Financial Constraints and Moral Hazard: The Case of Franchising (2013)
Working Paper: Financial constraints and moral hazard: The case of franchising (2013)
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