Corporate fraud and investment distortions in efficient capital markets
基于股东与管理层之间的代理冲突以及活跃收购市场中的投资重新谈判，解释了公司欺诈如何与有效资本市场并存，并导致低回报状态下的过度投资和高回报状态下的投资不足。
Inefficient investment allocation induced by corporate fraud, where informed insiders strategically manipulate outside investors' beliefs, has been endemic historically and has recently attracted much attention. We reconcile corporate fraud and investment distortions with efficient capital markets, building on shareholder‐manager agency conflicts and investment renegotiation in active takeover markets. Because investments that are ex post inefficient are not renegotiation proof, the optimal renegotiation‐proof contract induces overstatements by managers, accompanied by overinvestment in low return states and underinvestment in high return states by rational investors. Our framework also helps explain why easy access to external capital appears to facilitate corporate fraud.