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Masters Finance University of Oxford

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According to Wikipedia, Alex Edmans is a British academic and economist who is professor of finance at London Business School and Mercers' School Memorial Emeritus Professor of Business at Gresham College. He serves on the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on the Future of Responsible Investing and as a non-executive director of the Investor Forum. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Financial Management Association, Director of the American Finance Association and Vice President-Elect of the Western Finance Association.

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Alex Edmans's Published Works

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Published Works

Does the Stock Market Fully Value Intangibles? Employee Satisfaction and Equity Prices (2010) (1522)
Blockholder Trading, Market Efficiency, and Managerial Myopia (2009) (1016)
Sports Sentiment and Stock Returns (2006) (879)
The Real Effects of Financial Markets (2011) (680)
Governance Through Trading and Intervention: A Theory of Multiple Blockholders (2011) (647)
The Real Effects of Financial Markets: The Impact of Prices on Takeovers (2011) (568)
A Multiplicative Model of Optimal CEO Incentives in Market Equilibrium (2009) (532)
The Link Between Job Satisfaction and Firm Value, with Implications for Corporate Social Responsibility (2012) (479)
The Effect of Liquidity on Governance (2011) (362)
Blockholders and Corporate Governance (2013) (354)
Executive Compensation: A Survey of Theory and Evidence (2017) (259)
Inside Debt (2011) (240)
Dynamic CEO Compensation (2011) (239)
Blockholders: A Survey of Theory and Evidence (2016) (218)
Is CEO Pay Really Inefficient? A Survey of New Optimal Contracting Theories (2009) (217)
Do Investment Banks Matter for M&A Returns? (2010) (194)
Equity Vesting and Investment (2016) (191)
Executive Compensation: A Modern Primer (2015) (181)
The Effect of Risk on the CEO Market (2010) (171)
Feedback Effects, Asymmetric Trading, and the Limits to Arbitrage (2015) (153)
The Source of Information in Prices and Investment-Price Sensitivity (2016) (150)
Tractability in Incentive Contracting (2009) (124)
Employee Satisfaction, Labor Market Flexibility, and Stock Returns Around the World (2014) (121)
Strategic News Releases in Equity Vesting Months (2014) (91)
The Real Costs of Financial Efficiency When Some Information Is Soft (2016) (90)
Governance Under Common Ownership (2018) (78)
Equity Vesting and Managerial Myopia (2013) (76)
The Long-Term Consequences of Short-Term Incentives (2017) (58)
Governance Through Exit and Voice : A Theory of Multiple Blockholders (2007) (57)
Grow the Pie (2020) (45)
Short-Term Termination Without Deterring Long-Term Investment: A Theory of Debt and Buyouts (2011) (41)
A Calibratable Model of Optimal CEO Incentives in Market Equilibrium (2007) (40)
Dynamic Incentive Accounts (2009) (39)
Financing Through Asset Sales (2013) (31)
Contracting with Synergies (2011) (30)
Feedback Effects and the Limits to Arbitrage (2011) (27)
Takeover Activity and Target Valuations: Feedback Loops in Financial Markets (2009) (23)
Does Improved Information Improve Incentives? (2017) (22)
The Real Costs of Disclosure (2013) (21)
Blockholders, Market E¢ ciency, and Managerial Myopia (2007) (20)
The Informativeness Principle Under Limited Liability (2014) (16)
Does Investment Skill Decline due to Cognitive Aging or Improve with Experience (2006) (16)
Music Sentiment and Stock Returns Around the World (2021) (16)
The Responsible Homeowner Reward: An Incentive-Based Solution to Strategic Mortgage Default (2010) (13)
Governing Multiple Firms (2016) (13)
CEO Compensation: Evidence from the Field (2021) (13)
The Value of Informativeness for Contracting (2014) (12)
Online Appendix to "Do Investment Banks Have Skill? Performance Persistence of M&A Advisors" (2009) (11)
Governance and Comovement Under Common Ownership (2014) (10)
The Long‐Term Consequences of Short‐Term Incentives (2021) (7)
The Informativeness Principle Without the First-Order Approach (2018) (7)
Tractability and Detail-Neutrality in Incentive Contracting (2009) (7)
Skill in corporate acquisitions (2009) (6)
The End of ESG (2022) (6)
The Effect of Diversification on Price Informativeness and Governance∗ (2017) (5)
The Effect of Diversification on Price Informativeness and Asset Values (2017) (5)
Mergers and Acquisitions in Oligopolistic Industries (2011) (5)
The Generalized Informativeness Principle (2014) (5)
Risk and the CEO Market: Why Do Some Large Firms Hire Highly-Paid, Low-Talent CEOS? (2010) (5)
Socially Responsible Divestment (2022) (4)
The Value of Performance Signals Under Contracting Constraints (2017) (4)
The Value of Information for Contracting∗ (2016) (4)
Multiple Blockholders , Price Informativeness , and Firm Value (2007) (3)
Growing Out of Trouble ? Managerial Responses to Risk of Corporate Liability (2009) (3)
The Value of Performance Signals Under Limited Liability (2019) (2)
Company purpose and profit need not be in conflict if we ‘grow the pie’ (2020) (2)
How Should Performance Signals Affect Contracts? (2020) (2)
The Purpose of a Finance Professor (2022) (1)
The rights and wrongs of CEO pay (2019) (1)
Top Dogs and Fat Cats: The Debate on High Pay (2019) (1)
Detail-Independent Contracting, with an Application to CEO Incentives (2008) (1)
The purpose of profit (2019) (1)
The Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research Blockholders, Market Efficiency, and Managerial Myopia (2008) (1)
Managerial Incentives in Highly Levered Firms (2005) (0)
Myopic Agency and Bonus Bank Contracts (2013) (0)
Detail-Independent Optimal Contracts, with an Application to CEO Incentives ∗ (2008) (0)
Essays in financial economics (2007) (0)
Why Grow the Pie? Introducing the Idea (2020) (0)
Does Pieconomics Work? (2020) (0)
Portfolio Diversification, Adverse Selection, and Price Informativeness∗ (2017) (0)
Appendix for Tractability in Incentive Contracting Not for Publication (2011) (0)
How to Read This Book (2020) (0)
The Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research Dynamic Incentive Accounts (2009) (0)
Inside Debt Alex Edmans (2017) (0)
Applying Economics – Not Gut Feel – To ESG Issues (2023) (0)
Internet Appendix for Dynamic CEO Compensation (2011) (0)
Learnings From 1,000 Rejections (2023) (0)
Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with Funding from Boston Library Consortium Iviember Libraries Massachusetts Instittite of Technology Department of Economics Working Paper Series Why Has Ceo Pay Increased so Much? Why Has Ceo Pay Increased so Much? (2011) (0)
Reading List (2013) (0)
When Is (Performance-Sensitive) Debt Optimal? (2021) (0)
Appendix for Dynamic Incentive Accounts (2009) (0)
The Pie-Growing Mentality (2020) (0)
A Class of Tractable Incentive Contracts (2009) (0)
1 Equity Vesting and Managerial Myopia (2013) (0)
WHY TRUTH IS NOT ENOUGH (2017) (0)
A Primer on Tractable Incentive Contracts (2011) (0)
Debt-Based Pay may Give much-needed Balance ALIGnInG SHAReHOLDeRS & BOnDHOLDeRS (2010) (0)
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (2023) (0)
Appendix for “ Financing Through Asset Sales ” (2014) (0)
Fiduciary Duties and Equity‐debtholder Conflicts I. Fiduciary Duties and the Credit Lyonnais v. Pathe Communications Case Lawsuits Citing Credit Lyonnais Appeared in the next Several Years following Ruling. Ii. Data (0)
The Handbook of the Economics of Corporate Governance (2017) (0)
Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Value: Disaggregating the effects on cash flow, risk and growth September 2013 Running Title: Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Value (2015) (0)
PROMISE BEFORE PROFIT (2016) (0)
A Theory of Fair CEO Pay (2022) (0)

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University of Oxford