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Corporate Governance: Compensation of Executive & Directors eJournal

ALL TIME TOP PAPERS for all papers in this SSRN eLibrary subject area
2 Jan 1997 through 17 Nov 2016

Rank Downloads Paper Title
1 8,808 The Wages of Failure: Executive Compensation at Bear Stearns and Lehman 2000-2008
Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alma Cohen and Holger Spamann
Harvard Law School, Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics and Harvard Law School
Date posted to database: 26 Nov 2009
Last Revised: 1 Dec 2010
2 8,422 Regulating Bankers' Pay
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Holger Spamann
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Date posted to database: 30 May 2009
Last Revised: 8 Oct 2010
3 7,181 Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Date posted to database: 6 Jan 2003
Last Revised: 28 Apr 2009
4 6,420 Pay Without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Date posted to database: 30 Apr 2004
Last Revised: 5 May 2009
5 6,153 Executive Compensation: Where We are, and How We Got There
Kevin J. Murphy
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
Date posted to database: 17 Apr 2012
Last Revised: 13 Aug 2012
6 6,043 Foundations of Organizational Strategy: Preface and Introduction
Michael C. Jensen
Social Science Electronic Publishing (SSEP), Inc.
Date posted to database: 17 Oct 2000
Last Revised: 17 Jan 2011
7 6,034 Performance for Pay? The Relation Between CEO Incentive Compensation and Future Stock Price Performance
Michael J. Cooper, Huseyin Gulen and P. Raghavendra Rau
University of Utah - David Eccles School of Business, Purdue University - Krannert School of Management and University of Cambridge
Date posted to database: 19 Mar 2010
Last Revised: 3 Oct 2014
8 5,457 Bank CEO Incentives and the Credit Crisis
Rüdiger Fahlenbrach and René M. Stulz
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance
Date posted to database: 28 Jul 2009
Last Revised: 27 Sep 2010
9 5,451 Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation
Lucian A. Bebchuk, Jesse M. Fried and David I. Walker
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Boston University School of Law
Date posted to database: 19 Jun 2002
Last Revised: 28 Apr 2009
10 4,282 Paying for Long-Term Performance
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Date posted to database: 14 Jan 2010
Last Revised: 8 Oct 2010

RECENT TOP PAPERS for all papers first announced in the last 60 days
18 Sep 2016 through 17 Nov 2016

Rank Downloads Paper Title
1 270 Do CEO Bonus Plans Serve a Purpose?
Wayne R. Guay, John D. Kepler and David Tsui
University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department, University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
Date posted to database: 10 Oct 2016
Last Revised: 16 Oct 2016
2 72 High CEO Pay Ratios: Governance Failure or Superior Performance?
Qiang Cheng, Tharindra Ranasinghe and Sha Zhao
Singapore Management University, University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business and Oakland University - Department of Accounting and Finance
Date posted to database: 31 Oct 2016
Last Revised: 31 Oct 2016
3 61 Product Market Competition, Disclosure and Strategic Delegation: Evidence from Revenue-Based Compensation
Matthew J. Bloomfield
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Date posted to database: 1 Nov 2016
Last Revised: 1 Nov 2016
4 48 Boys and Girls Have Different Friends: Gender Differences in CEO Network and Wage Premiums
Herman Sahni
Baldwin Wallace University
Date posted to database: 13 Oct 2016
Last Revised: 13 Oct 2016
5 44 How Investors Respond to a Mandatory Maximum CEO–Employee Pay Ratio? Evidence from Unique Legislation
Menachem (Meni) Abudy and Efrat Shust
Bar-Ilan University - Graduate School of Business Administration and School of Business, College of Management Academic Studies
Date posted to database: 8 Oct 2016
Last Revised: 17 Oct 2016
6 41 Fool's Gold? Equity Compensation & the Mature Startup
Abraham J. B. Cable
University of California Hastings College of the Law
Date posted to database: 7 Oct 2016
Last Revised: 7 Oct 2016
7 31 CEO Compensation and Concurrent Executive Employment of outside Directors: A Panel Data Analysis of S&P 1500 Firms
Young-Chul Kim and Sujin Song
Sangmyung University and Korea University
Date posted to database: 13 Oct 2016
Last Revised: 13 Oct 2016
8 25 Compensating Executives Based on Performance
Mohammed R Ahmed
Nova Southeastern University
Date posted to database: 4 Nov 2016
Last Revised: 13 Nov 2016
9 21 Framed! The Failure of Traditional Agency Cost Explanations for Executive Pay Practices
Bryce C. Tingle
University of Calgary - Faculty of Law
Date posted to database: 6 Oct 2016
Last Revised: 11 Oct 2016
10 21 Reexamining Internal Revenue Code Section 162(m): Bonus-Performance Sensitivity Analysis
Yi Ren
Illinois State University
Date posted to database: 11 Oct 2016
Last Revised: 5 Nov 2016





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