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Alex Edmans

Alex Edmans

Professor of Finance, London Business School

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Executive Pay

7th October 2017

A Layman’s Guide to Separating Causation from Correlation … and Noticing When Claims of Causality are Invalid

Imagine you're the Minister for Education, deciding how large to make a school district. Smaller school districts offer parents more school choice.

Category iconCorporate Finance,  Corporate Governance,  Executive Pay,  Responsible Business

20th July 2017

CEOs Cut Investment To Sell Their Own Shares At High Prices

One of the most fundamental concerns with corporations is that they focus on short-term profit rather than investing for the long-term. This is a

Category iconCorporate Finance,  Corporate Governance,  Executive Pay

5th April 2017

House of Commons Report on Corporate Governance

Today the House of Commons Select Committee on Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) published its report on corporate governance, after

Category iconCorporate Governance,  Executive Pay,  Responsible Business

18th March 2017

Simplicity, Transparency, and Sustainability: A New Model For CEO Pay

How did BP CEO Bob Dudley get paid £14m in 2015, despite the stock price falling by over 15%? Because of a complex, opaque pay scheme known as a

Category iconExecutive Pay

19th September 2016

Why has CEO pay risen so much faster than worker pay?

Arguably the most convincing "smoking gun" evidence that CEO pay is excessive is how it's risen much faster than median worker pay. In the U.S., CEO

Category iconExecutive Pay

17th September 2016

Long-Term Executive Incentives Improve Innovation and Corporate Responsibility

Executive compensation needs to be reformed. But, most of the calls for reform focus on the wrong dimensions. They focus on the level of pay, or the

Category iconExecutive Pay,  Responsible Business

15th September 2016

Why the MSCI Study Does NOT Show That Equity Incentives Backfire

MSCI have released an impactful study entitled "Are CEOs Paid for Performance? Evaluating the Effectiveness of Equity Incentives", purporting to show

Category iconExecutive Pay

3rd September 2016

How Virtually Every Pay Regulation Has Backfired

Few topics make the public as angry as CEO pay. In the UK, the average FTSE 100 CEO earned £5.4m in 2015, 148 times the median worker. For US S&P

Category iconExecutive Pay

1st September 2016

Eight Common Myths About CEO Pay

Few business topics capture the public’s interest – and ire – as CEO pay. Indeed, a major reason why executives carried little weight in the Brexit

Category iconExecutive Pay

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