Why 'Fair Market Valuations' are Inappropriate for Employee-Owned Firms and Partnerships

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This paper has virtually no relevance to quantitative trading. It is a theoretical economics and legal theory paper about corporate valuation methodology for employee-owned firms and partnerships. While it discusses valuation formulas (discounted cashflow, NAV + Goodwill), these are applied to corporate ownership structures rather than to trading strategies, asset pricing, or market microstructure. The Miller-Modigliani framework is referenced but in the context of corporate governance and property rights, not quantitative finance applications.

This is a theoretical paper with no computational implementation. The mathematical content involves standard present-value calculations and the Miller-Modigliani framework. The 'implementation' would be policy/legal reform rather than software development. The mathematical proofs in the appendix are moderately complex but use standard financial mathematics.

The paper is purely theoretical with mathematical proofs. The Miller-Modigliani framework is well-established and the derivations are fully presented in the appendix. No empirical data or code is needed for verification. The logical argument is self-contained and can be independently verified through the presented mathematics.