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Alex Edmans

Alex Edmans

Professor of Finance, London Business School

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"Access to Finance" Blog

My blog, “Access to Finance”, aims to make complex academic papers accessible to a general audience. For posts on responsible business (both academic papers and current events), please visit the blog of my book "Grow the Pie".

30th June 2017

Is Short Termism Really A Problem?

"Myopia [short-termism] is a first-order problem faced by the modern firm. In the last century, firms were predominantly capital-intensive, but

Category iconCorporate Finance,  Corporate Governance,  The World Economy

18th June 2017

Conflicts of Interest Among Proxy Advisors

The Importance of Proxy Advisors Proxy advisors play a critical role in corporate governance. One important way in which shareholders exert

Category iconCorporate Governance

5th May 2017

Corporate Governance in China

China will soon become the largest economy in the world, but many Westerners (myself included) know very little about it. Moreover, the vast majority

Category iconCorporate Finance,  Corporate Governance,  The World Economy

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

11th March 2017

Blockchains: How they work, and how they may transform the world

We hear blockchains mentioned all the time, but very few people know what they actually are, how they work, and what effect they may have.  The

Category iconThe World Economy

7th March 2017

The returns to investing in grass-roots sport and the distraction of Olympic medals

"Unless we look more creatively about how we engage everyone in physical activity, we may win medals but we will be bottom of the league table on

Category iconThe World Economy

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

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