Professional Documents
Culture Documents
• The Firm
• The Goal of the Firm
• Do Companies Maximize Profits?
• Maximizing the Wealth of
Stockholders
• Economic Profits
• Definition
• A firm is a collection of resources that is
t
transformed
f d into
i t products
d t demanded
d d d by
b
consumers.
• Counter
Counter-arguments
arguments which support the profit
maximization hypothesis.
• St
Stockk prices
i are a reflection
fl ti off a company’s ’
profitability. If managers do not seek to
maximize profits,
profits stock prices fall and firms are
subject to takeover bids and proxy fights.
• The compensation of many executives is tied to
stock price.