Assertion: agency's activity | /r/HasProperty | useful
Facets:
value: to the principal
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: The problem arises where the two parties have different interests and asymmetric information (the agent having more information), such that the principal cannot directly ensure that the agent is always acting in their (the principal's) best interest, particularly when activities that are useful to the principal are costly to the agent, and where elements of what the agent does are costly for the principal to observe (see moral hazard and conflict of interest).