An entrepreneur needs funds for a project. He has funds of his own, but enough to cover the required investment of $100. If the entrepreneur doesn’t misbehave, the project will succeed with probability .9, yielding a gross return of 120 in one year. With probability .1, it fails and yields nothing. If the entrepreneur misbehaves, on the other hand, he obtains a private benefit of $14 in one year, while lowering the probability of success to .5. Lenders require a gross return of $1 in one year on $1 loaned today.