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The Market Value of the Vote: A Contingent Claims Approach
Avner Kalay
Tel Aviv University - Faculty of Management; University of Utah - David Eccles School of Business
Shagun Pant
University of Iowa - Department of Finance
January 1, 2008
Abstract:
The paper presents a new methodology to estimate the market value of the right to vote that is embedded in common stocks. The difference in the price of the stock and the synthetic stock (constructed with options) quantifies the value of the right to vote during the expected life of the synthetic stock. Consistent with the theory we find that our measure increases with the expected life of the synthetic stock. We quantify the value of the right to vote during the next year at 1.64%. As expected, the value of the vote increases around special meetings and around M&A events. The evidence presented has implications for the option pricing literature as well. We point out that early exercise of Call options can be optimal even in the absence of dividends on the underlying security.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 50
Keywords: Voting rights, Put-Call parity, Options, Vote trading
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Date posted: November 8, 2008
; Last revised: March 11, 2010
Suggested CitationKalay, Avner and Pant, Shagun, The Market Value of the Vote: A Contingent Claims Approach (January 1, 2008). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1296269 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1296269
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