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The Role Of The Market Model In Corporate Law Analysis: A Comment On Weiss And White, Merritt B. Fox
The Role Of The Market Model In Corporate Law Analysis: A Comment On Weiss And White, Merritt B. Fox
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In a recent article, Elliott Weiss and Lawrence J. White sought to establish that seven decisions of the Delaware courts concerning corporation law had little value in predicting the future conduct of courts and corporations under the Delaware Corporations Law. Weiss and White relied, in part, on a statistical analysis of changes in the prices of publicly traded shares in Delaware corporations to show that the seven studied decisions had no statistically significant market impact.
In this Comment, Professor Fox takes issue with the explanation Weiss and White give for their data. Although the absence of an observed market impact …