Classic microeconomic theory presumes that firms act solely to maximize securityholders’ wealth or firm net present value. But Jensen-Meckling’s (1976) careful exploration of the agency relationships of corporate organization suggests that incentive conflicts can motivate maximization of stockholder wealth or management wealth at the expense of firm value maximization. In a similar vein, Bulow-Shoven (1978) analyze situations where management is induced to maximize wealth of debtholders. Thus, the existence of incentive conflicts provides a variety of motivations for capital structure changes.