Voting in Shareholders Meetings
Pre-print, Working paper: This paper studies the informational e¢ ciency of voting mechanisms in shareholder meetings. When the management cannot a¤ect the proposal being voted on, we show that voting mechanisms are more e¢ cient when their ballot space is richer. Moreover, e¢ ciency requires full divisibility of the votes. When the management has agenda power, we uncover a novel trade-o¤: more e¢ cient mechanisms provide worse incentives to select good proposals. This negative e¤ect can be large enough to wash out the higher voting e¢ ciency of even the most e¢ cient mechanisms.
Author(s)
Laurent Bouton, Aniol Llorente-Saguer, Antonin Macé, Dimitrios Xefteris
Date of publication
- 2022
Keywords JEL
Keywords
- Information Aggregation
- Strategic Voting
- Shareholder Meetings
- Corporate Governance
- One-person-one-vote
- One-share-one-vote
Internal reference
- PSE Working Papers n°2022-03
Pages
- 68 p.
URL of the HAL notice
Version
- 1