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Private Benefits and Corporate Investment and Financing Decisions: The Case of Corporate Philanthropy
What is the opportunity cost of private benefits of control? Using dollar cost of corporate giving to measure private benefits of control, we show in a recent study that (i) the consumption of private benefits creates a managerial aversion to …