Trigger Happy or Gun Shy: Dissolving Common-Value Partnerships with Texas Shootouts
Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 09-41
CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
60 Pages Posted: 10 Jul 2009 Last revised: 9 Sep 2011
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Trigger Happy or Gun Shy? Dissolving Common-Value Partnerships with Texas Shootouts
Trigger Happy or Gun Shy: Dissolving Common-Value Partnerships with Texas Shootouts
Trigger Happy or Gun Shy: Dissolving Common-Value Partnerships with Texas Shootouts
Date Written: March 2, 2009
Abstract
The operating agreements of many business ventures include clauses to facilitate the exit of joint owners. In so-called Texas Shootouts, one owner names a single buy-sell price and the other owner is compelled to either buy or sell shares at that named price. Despite their prevalence in real-world contracts, Texas Shootouts are rarely triggered. In our theoretical framework, sole ownership is more efficient than joint ownership. Negotiations are frustrated, however, by the presence of asymmetric information. In equilibrium, owners eschew buy-sell offers in favor of simple offers to buy or to sell shares and bargaining failures arise. Experimental data support these findings.
Keywords: Exit Mechanisms for Joint Ownership Ventures, Texas Shootout Clauses, Buy-Sell Mechanisms, Shotgun Provisions, Russian Roulette Agreements, Put-Call Options, Cake-Cutting Rule, Bargaining with Common Values, Experiments, Ultimatum Exchange Environments with Endogenous Offer Types
JEL Classification: D44, C72, C90
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