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Title: The devil is in the detail? Investors’ mispricing of proxy voting outcomes on M&A deals
Authors: Li, Lingwei
Zhang, Huai
Keywords: Business::Finance
Issue Date: 2021
Source: Li, L. & Zhang, H. (2021). The devil is in the detail? Investors’ mispricing of proxy voting outcomes on M&A deals. Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, 48(3-4), 692-717. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbfa.12486
Project: RG75/16
Journal: Journal of Business Finance and Accounting
Abstract: Shareholders’ approval rates on M&A deals are informative because they are predictive of the acquirer's post-merger operating performance. Since the passing of the deal is salient information while the specific approval rate is not, investors may misprice the detailed voting outcome due to their limited attention. We find that post-merger abnormal stock returns are significantly higher for acquirers receiving higher approval rates: a one percentage point increase in the approval rate is associated with a 48 basis point increase in the market-adjusted stock return in the year after the merger is completed. Consistent with mispricing, the voting outcome reliably predicts post-merger earnings announcement returns and analyst forecast errors. What's more, the association between the voting outcome and post-merger stock returns is stronger when investors’ attention to the voting outcome is distracted by same-day earnings announcements, when the marginal investor is less likely to be sophisticated, and when investors have greater pre-merger disagreement. Short sale constraints do not seem to explain our findings. Overall, our results suggest that detailed proxy voting outcomes are neglected by investors.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/154550
ISSN: 0306-686X
DOI: 10.1111/jbfa.12486
Schools: Nanyang Business School 
Rights: ©2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. All rights reserved.
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