Duane Seppi
Carnegie Mellon University
Tepper School of Business
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
Tel: 412-268-2298
Fax: 412-268-8896
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Institutional Affiliation: Carnegie Mellon University
NBER Working Papers and Publications
| July 2009 | The Role of Advisory Services in Proxy Voting
with Cindy R. Alexander, Mark A. Chen, Chester S. Spatt: w15143
This paper studies the information content and consequences of third-party voting advice issued during proxy contests. We document significant abnormal stock returns around proxy vote recommendations and develop an estimation procedure for disentangling stock price effects due to changes in outcome probabilities from those due to changes in outcome-contingent valuations. We find that voting advice is a good predictor of contest outcomes and that vote recommendations appear to certify the extent to which dissidents can add value. Thus, proxy advice seems to play a dual informational role in financial markets. Published: “Interim News and the Role of Proxy Voting Advice,” December 2010 (with C . Alexander, M . Chen and D . Seppi), Revi ew of Financial Studies , 23, 4419 - 4454.
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