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1.

Choice Architecture

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 02 Apr 2010
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Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein and John P. Balz
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Harvard Law School and University of Chicago - Political Science Department

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Downloads 23,834
2.

Executive Compensation

Number of pages: 91 Posted: 19 May 1999
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Kevin J. Murphy
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
Downloads 20,254
3.

CEO Incentives: It's Not How Much You Pay, But How

Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998; Harvard Business Review, No. 3, May-June 1990
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 12 Apr 1999
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Michael C. Jensen and Kevin J. Murphy
Harvard Business School and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business

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Downloads 15,994
4.

Reducing Retirement Risk with a Rising Equity Glide-Path

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 13 Sep 2013
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Wade D. Pfau and Michael Kitces
The American College for Financial Services and The Kitces Report & Nerd's Eye View
Downloads 12,346
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Pay Without Performance: Overview of the Issues

Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 647-673, 2005, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 8-22, 2005, Academy of Management Perspectives, pp. 5-24, February 2006, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 528
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 19 Jul 2005 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 10,179
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The Wages of Failure: Executive Compensation at Bear Stearns and Lehman 2000-2008

Yale Journal on Regulation, Vol. 27, 2010, pp. 257-282, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 657, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 287
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 26 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alma Cohen and Holger Spamann
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 10,051
7.

Financial Literacy, Financial Education and Downstream Financial Behaviors (full paper and web appendix)

Forthcoming in Management Science
Number of pages: 103 Posted: 02 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2014
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Daniel Fernandes, John G. Lynch and Richard G. Netemeyer
Catholic University of Portugal, University of Colorado-Boulder, Leeds School of Business - Center for Research on Consumer Financial Decision Making and University of Virginia - McIntire School of Commerce
Downloads 9,324
8.

Executive Compensation: Where We are, and How We Got There

George Constantinides, Milton Harris, and René Stulz (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Finance. Elsevier Science North Holland (Forthcoming), Marshall School of Business Working Paper No. FBE 07.12
Number of pages: 179 Posted: 17 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 13 Aug 2012
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Kevin J. Murphy
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
Downloads 9,201
9.

The 4 Percent Rule is Not Safe in a Low-Yield World

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 16 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2013
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Michael S. Finke, Wade D. Pfau and David Blanchett
The American College, The American College for Financial Services and Morningstar Investment Management
Downloads 8,885
10.

Are State Public Pensions Sustainable? Why the Federal Government Should Worry About State Pension Liabilities

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 27 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 17 May 2010
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Joshua D. Rauh
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Downloads 8,102
11.

Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 17, pp. 71-92, 2003, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 421
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 06 Jan 2003 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School

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Downloads 7,916
12.

Pay Without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation

Harvard University Press, 2004
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 30 Apr 2004 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 7,253
13.

Executive Equity Compensation and Incentives: A Survey

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 22 Jul 2001
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Wayne R. Guay, John E. Core and David F. Larcker
University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business

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Downloads 6,879
14.

Life-Cycle Finance in Theory and in Practice

Boston University School of Management Working Paper No. 2002-02
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 13 Jun 2002
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Zvi Bodie
Boston University - Department of Finance & Economics
Downloads 6,114
15.

Behavioral Finance and Investor Governance

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 23 Jan 2001
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Lawrence A. Cunningham
George Washington University
Downloads 6,104
16.

Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 69, pp. 751-846, 2002, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 366, June 2002
Number of pages: 97 Posted: 19 Jun 2002 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk, Jesse M. Fried and David I. Walker
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Boston University School of Law

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Downloads 5,674
17.

Public Pension Promises: How Big are They and What are They Worth?

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 05 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2010
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Robert Novy-Marx and Joshua D. Rauh
Simon Business School, University of Rochester and Stanford Graduate School of Business
Downloads 5,662
18.

Pension Fund Asset Allocation and Liability Discount Rates

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 29 May 2012 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2017
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Aleksandar Andonov, Rob Bauer and Martijn Cremers
University of Amsterdam, Maastricht University and University of Notre Dame
Downloads 5,541
19.

Executive Equity Compensation and Incentives: A Survey

Economic Policy Review, Vol. 9, No. 1, April 2003
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 06 Sep 2005
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John E. Core, Wayne R. Guay and David F. Larcker
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business

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Downloads 5,354
20.

Taxing Undocumented Immigrants: Separate, Unequal and Without Representation

Tax Lawyer, Spring 2006, Harvard Latino Law Review, Spring 2006, Chapman University Law Research Paper No. 06-20
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 15 Feb 2006
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Francine J. Lipman
University of Nevada, Las Vegas - William S. Boyd School of Law
Downloads 5,342
21.

Against Financial Literacy Education

Iowa Law Review, Vol. 94, 2008, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 08-10, Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2008-13
Number of pages: 92 Posted: 13 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 09 Jul 2010
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Lauren E. Willis
Loyola Law School Los Angeles
Downloads 5,249
22.

CEO Compensation

Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 77
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 01 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2010
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Carola Frydman and Dirk Jenter
Northwestern University and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Finance

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Downloads 4,903
23.

The Tradeoff Between Mortgage Prepayments and Tax-Deferred Retirement Savings

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 18 Mar 2006
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Jennifer C. Huang, Gene Amromin and Clemens Sialm
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business

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Downloads 4,772
24.

Corporate Governance and Banks: What Have We Learned from the Financial Crisis?

FRB of New York Staff Report No. 502
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 07 Jul 2011
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Hamid Mehran, Alan D. Morrison and Joel D. Shapiro
Independent, University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Oxford - Said Business School
Downloads 4,657
25.

The Efficacy of Publicly-Available Retirement Planning Tools

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 18 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 14 Jan 2019
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Taft Dorman, Barry S. Mulholland, Qianwen Bi and Harold Evensky
Texas Tech University, University of Akron - Department of Finance, Utah Valley University and Texas Tech University
Downloads 4,651
26.

Executive Remuneration in the EU: Comparative Law and Practice

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 09/2003
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 04 Mar 2004
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Guido Ferrarini, Niamh Moloney and Cristina Vespro
University of Genoa - Law Department and Centre for Law and Finance, London School of Economics - Law Department and ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Downloads 4,386
27.

CEO Bonus Plans: And How to Fix Them

Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper 12-022, Marshall School of Business Working Paper No. FBE 02-11
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 30 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 20 Nov 2011
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Kevin J. Murphy and Michael C. Jensen
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Harvard Business School
Downloads 4,088
28.

Retirement Investing: A New Approach

Boston University School of Management Working Paper No. 2001-03
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 19 Feb 2001
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Zvi Bodie
Boston University - Department of Finance & Economics
Downloads 4,074
29.

What Enron Means for the Management and Control of the Modern Business Corporation: Some Initial Reflections

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 12 Apr 2002
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Jeffrey N. Gordon
Columbia Law School
Downloads 3,788
30.

Executive Compensation at Fannie Mae: A Case Study of Perverse Incentives, Nonperformance Pay, and Camouflage

Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 807-822, 2005, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 653125, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 505, February 2005
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 02 Feb 2005 Last Revised: 05 May 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 3,772
31.

Top Ten Myths of Medicare

The Elder Law Journal, Vol. 20, pp. 1-32, 2012, Illinois Program in Law, Behavior and Social Science Paper No. LBSS13-02, Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 11-28
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 18 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 03 Oct 2012
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Richard L. Kaplan
University of Illinois College of Law
Downloads 3,715
32.

Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance in the U.S.: Perceptions, Facts and Challenges

Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 12-42, Fama-Miller Working Paper
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 29 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 26 Sep 2012
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Steven N. Kaplan
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

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Downloads 3,593
33.

Public Pension Plan Reform: The Legal Framework

Education, Finance & Policy, Vol. 5, 2010, Minnesota Legal Studies Research No. 10-13
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 24 Mar 2010
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Amy Monahan
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Law
Downloads 3,583
34.

Managerial Incentives and Corporate Fraud: The Sources of Incentives Matter

EFA 2006 Zurich Meetings
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 02 Jun 2006 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2011
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Shane A. Johnson, Harley E. Ryan and Yisong S. Tian
Texas A&M University - Department of Finance, Georgia State University - Department of Finance and York University - Schulich School of Business
Downloads 3,562
36.

Pension Fund Performance and Costs: Small is Beautiful

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 27 Feb 2007 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2012
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Rob Bauer, Martijn Cremers and Rik Frehen
Maastricht University, University of Notre Dame and Tilburg University - Department of Finance
Downloads 3,529
37.

Regulation for Conservatives: Behavioral Economics and the Case for 'Asymmetric Paternalism'

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 151, p. 1211, 2003, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 225
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 29 Apr 2003 Last Revised: 10 Nov 2010
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Colin Camerer, Samuel Issacharoff, George Loewenstein, Ted O'Donoghue and Matthew Rabin
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, New York University School of Law, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Cornell University - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
Downloads 3,346
38.

Can Large Pension Funds Beat the Market? Asset Allocation, Market Timing, Security Selection and the Limits of Liquidity

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 14 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 15 Nov 2012
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Aleksandar Andonov, Rob Bauer and Martijn Cremers
University of Amsterdam, Maastricht University and University of Notre Dame
Downloads 3,343
39.

The 4% Rule - At What Price?

Journal Of Investment Management (JOIM), Third Quarter 2009
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 02 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 10 Nov 2009
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Jason S. Scott, William F. Sharpe and John G. Watson
Financial Engines, Inc., Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and Stanford Graduate School of Business
Downloads 3,320
40.

A Guide to Starting Social Security Benefits

Journal of Retirement Planning, July-August 2008, U Illinois Law & Economics Research Paper No. LE08-025
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 04 Aug 2008
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Richard L. Kaplan
University of Illinois College of Law
Downloads 3,279
41.

Life-Cycle Funds

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 25 May 2007
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Luis M. Viceira
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit
Downloads 3,058
42.

Executive Compensation: A Modern Primer

Journal of Economic Literature 54(4), 1232-1287, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 450/2015
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 13 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2020
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Alex Edmans and Xavier Gabaix
London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting and Harvard University - Department of Economics

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Downloads 3,056
43.

Golden Parachutes and the Wealth of Shareholders

Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 25, April 2014, pp. 140-154, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 683
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 02 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 14 Nov 2018
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Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alma Cohen and Charles C. Y. Wang
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School
Downloads 2,971
44.

One Share, One Vote: The Empirical Evidence

ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 177/2007
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 01 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 23 Jul 2012
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Renee B. Adams and Daniel Ferreira
University of Oxford and London School of Economics - Department of Finance

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Downloads 2,909
45.

Regulating in Pandemic: Evaluating Economic and Financial Policy Responses to the Coronavirus Crisis

Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 527, March 2020
Number of pages: 90 Posted: 18 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2020
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Hiba Hafiz, Shu-Yi Oei, Diane M. Ring and Natalya Shnitser
Boston College Law School, Boston College Law School, Boston College - Law School and Boston College - Law School
Downloads 2,838
46.

Financial Accounting and Corporate Behavior

Boston Univ. School of Law Working Paper No. 06-05
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 29 Mar 2006
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David I. Walker
Boston University School of Law
Downloads 2,821
47.

Lucky CEOs

Journal of Finance, 2010 (published as "Lucky CEOs and Lucky Directors"), Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 566
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 20 Nov 2006 Last Revised: 09 Dec 2010
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Lucian A. Bebchuk, Yaniv Grinstein and Urs Peyer
Harvard Law School, Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and INSEAD - Finance

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Downloads 2,819
48.

Corporate Tax Avoidance and High Powered Incentives

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 19 Apr 2004
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Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and University of Chicago Law School

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Downloads 2,801
49.

Pay Without Performance and the Managerial Power Hypothesis: A Comment

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 01 May 2006
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Bengt R. Holmström
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics
Downloads 2,741
50.

The True Impact of Immediate Annuities on Retirement Sustainability: A Total Wealth Perspective

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 23 Jul 2013
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Michael Kitces and Wade D. Pfau
The Kitces Report & Nerd's Eye View and The American College for Financial Services
Downloads 2,727