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Asking The Right Question: The Statutory Right Of Appraisal And Efficient Markets, Jonathan Macey, Joshua Mitts
Asking The Right Question: The Statutory Right Of Appraisal And Efficient Markets, Jonathan Macey, Joshua Mitts
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In this article, we make several contributions to the literature on appraisal rights and cases in which courts assign values to a company's shares in the litigation context. First, we applaud the recent trend in Delaware cases to consider the market prices of the stock of the company being valued if that stock trades in an efficient market, and we defend this market-oriented methodology against claims that recent discoveries in behavioral finance indicate that share prices are unreliable due to various cognitive biases. Next, we propose that the framework and methodology for utilizing market prices be clarified. We maintain that …