Communication Costs, Information Acquisition, and Voting Decisions in Proxy Contests

43 Pages Posted: 1 Apr 2003

Abstract

This paper synthesizes some recent progress in the theories of corporate control and political lobbying to model the proxy campaign as a political campaign. The model yields a number of testable implications, only some of which have been examined in the literature. For example, if the loss from voting for a "bad" dissident exceeds the gain from voting for a "good" dissident, the model predicts that as communication costs fall, the number of proxy fights increases, announcement day returns decrease, and the fraction of dissident wins first increases and then decreases.

JEL Classification: G34

Suggested Citation

Bhattacharya, Utpal, Communication Costs, Information Acquisition, and Voting Decisions in Proxy Contests . Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1332 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1332

Utpal Bhattacharya (Contact Author)

HKUST Business School ( email )

Clear Water Bay
Kowloon
Hong Kong

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