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Agency Costs and Ownership Structure: Evidence from the Small Business Finance Survey Data Base

The author hypothesizes that agency problems suffered by larger firms are not statistically significant for smaller owner-manager or family-owned firms. The Federal Reserve Board’s 1993 National Survey of Small Business Finances database was used to test the hypotheses.