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There may, of course, be other ways in which the firm can make direct incremental cash payoffs to one class of common stockholders. However, all of the obvious ways appear to be banned by the Articles of Incorporation leaving indirect cash and non-cash payments as the alternative explanation.13
Both Manne (1964) and Jensen and Meckling (1976) suggest that control or voting control of a corporation is valuable. The source of the value is the additional compensation and perquisites that the controlling securityholders can accord themselves. The market price premiums computed for the class of shares with superior voting rights for the category 1 and 2 companies is
consistent with that hypothesis. However, this line of argument is at best only a partial answer. It cannot explain the observed price discounts on common stock with superior voting rights when voting preferred stock is also outstanding. It could be argued, of course, that incremental salaries and perquisites are captured by the voting preferred stockholders. At an extreme, however, the two classes of common stock should then sell at identical prices.
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