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According to Wikipedia, Lucian Arye Bebchuk is a professor at Harvard Law School focusing on economics and finance. Life and career Bebchuk has a B.A. in mathematics and economics from the University of Haifa , an LL.B. from the University of Tel Aviv , an LL.M. and S.J.D. from Harvard Law School and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics, also from Harvard . He was a junior fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows from 1983 to 1985. He joined the Harvard Law faculty in 1986. Bebchuck is the co-author, with Jesse Fried, of Pay without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation.

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What Matters in Corporate Governance? (2004) (2915)
Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem (2003) (1872)
Pay Without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation (2004) (1576)
Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation (2002) (1538)
The Costs of Entrenched Boards (2004) (1029)
A Theory of Path Dependence in Corporate Ownership and Governance (1999) (866)
Litigation and Settlement under Imperfect Information (1984) (825)
Stock Pyramids, Cross-Ownership, and Dual Class Equity: The Creation and Agency Costs of Separating Control from Cash Flow Rights (1999) (782)
The CEO Pay Slice (2010) (778)
Pay Without Performance: Overview of the Issues (2005) (740)
The Case for Increasing Shareholder Power (2003) (581)
A Rent-Protection Theory of Corporate Ownership and Control (1999) (537)
The Growth of Executive Pay (2005) (526)
The State of Corporate Governance Research (2009) (439)
The Powerful Antitakeover Force of Staggered Boards: Theory, Evidence and Policy (2002) (418)
Do Short‐Term Objectives Lead to Under‐ or Overinvestment in Long‐Term Projects? (1993) (405)
Regulating Bankers' Pay (2009) (387)
The Wages of Failure: Executive Compensation at Bear Stearns and Lehman 2000-2008 (2009) (371)
The Long-Term Effects of Hedge Fund Activism (2015) (335)
Learning and the Disappearing Association Between Governance and Returns (2010) (327)
Lucky CEOs and Lucky Directors (2009) (315)
A New Approach to Corporate Reorganizations (1988) (297)
Concentrated Corporate Ownership: Stock Pyramids, Cross-Ownership, and Dual Class Equity: The Mechanisms and Agency Costs of Separating Control from Cash-Flow Rights (2000) (291)
Bankruptcy Rules, Managerial Entrenchment, and Firm-Specific Human Capital (1993) (284)
The Elusive Quest for Global Governance Standards (2009) (282)
The Myth of the Shareholder Franchise (2009) (282)
Efficient and Inefficient Sales of Corporate Control (1994) (268)
Firms' Decisions Where to Incorporate (2002) (260)
Federalism and the Corporation: The Desirable Limits on State Competition in Corporate Law (1992) (232)
The Uneasy Case for the Priority of Secured Claims in Bankruptcy (1996) (214)
Paying for Long-Term Performance (2009) (202)
The Agency Problems of Institutional Investors (2017) (198)
Self-Fulfilling Credit Market Freezes (2009) (178)
Suing Solely to Extract a Settlement Offer (1987) (153)
Ex Ante Costs of Violating Absolute Priority in Bankruptcy (2001) (153)
Bargaining and the Division of Value in Corporate Reorganization (1991) (135)
Index Funds and the Future of Corporate Governance: Theory, Evidence, and Policy (2019) (134)
Misreporting Corporate Performance (2002) (131)
The Illusory Promise of Stakeholder Governance (2020) (128)
Does the Evidence Favor State Competition in Corporate Law? (2002) (119)
The Case for Shareholder Access to the Ballot (2003) (118)
Perspectives on Corporate Governance: Pay Without Performance: Overview of the Issues (2010) (117)
Investor Protection and Interest Group Politics (2007) (116)
Pay without Performance (2006) (108)
Executive Pensions (2005) (101)
A New Theory concerning the Credibility and Success of Threats to Sue (1996) (101)
Federalism and Corporate Law: The Race to Protect Managers from Takeovers (1999) (101)
The Myth that Insulating Boards Serves Long-Term Value (2013) (100)
One-Sided Contracts in Competitive Consumer Markets (2005) (98)
Limiting Contractual Freedom in Corporate Law: The Desirable Constraints on Charter Amendments (1989) (87)
Vigorous Race or Leisurely Walk: Reconsidering the Competition Over Corporate Charters (2002) (86)
Information and the Scope of Liability for Breach of Contract: The Rule of Hadley V. Baxendale (1991) (81)
The Powerful Antitakeover Force of Staggered Boards: Further Findings and a Reply to Symposium Participants (2002) (80)
Toward Undistorted Choice and Equal Treatment in Corporate Takeovers (1985) (79)
Insider Trading and the Managerial Choice among Risky Projects (1994) (79)
The Case Against Board Veto in Corporate Takeovers (2002) (79)
Corporate Political Speech: Who Decides? (2010) (77)
A New Approach to Takeover Law and Regulatory Competition (2001) (75)
Fairness Opinions: How Fair Are They and What Can be Done About It? (1989) (73)
Stealth Compensation Via Retirement Benefits (2004) (73)
Executive Compensation at Fannie Mae: A Case Study of Perverse Incentives, Nonperformance Pay, and Camouflage (2005) (72)
The Debate on Contractual Freedom in Corporate Law (1989) (72)
Independent Directors and Controlling Shareholders (2017) (70)
The Case for Facilitating Competing Tender Offers (1982) (70)
Managerial Value Diversion and Shareholder Wealth (1996) (68)
Using Options to Divide Value in Corporate Bankruptcy (2000) (65)
Golden Parachutes and the Wealth of Shareholders (2012) (64)
THE COST OF ENTRENCHED BOARDS (2003) (62)
Firm Expansion and CEO Pay (2005) (62)
Dancing with Activists (2017) (61)
Optimal sanctions and differences in individuals' likelihood of avoiding detection (1993) (61)
The Specter of the Giant Three (2019) (61)
Shining Light on Corporate Political Spending (2012) (58)
The Market for Corporate Law (2002) (57)
Letting Shareholders Set the Rules (2006) (57)
An Analysis of Fee Shifting Based on the Margin of Victory: On Frivolous Suits, Meritorious Suits, and the Role of Rule 11 (1994) (56)
The Untenable Case for Perpetual Dual-Class Stock (2017) (55)
The Uneasy Case for the Priority of Secured Claims in Bankruptcy: Further Thoughts and a Reply to Critics (1998) (55)
Why Firms Adopt Antitakeover Arrangements (2003) (50)
The Law and Economics of Blockholder Disclosure (2011) (48)
How to Tie Equity Compensation to Long-Term Results (2010) (47)
Do Short-Term Managerial Objectives Lead to Under- or Over-Investment in Long-Term Projects (1993) (46)
Federalism and Takeover Law: the Race to Protect Managers from Takeovers (2000) (44)
Property Rights and Liability Rules: The Ex Ante View of the Cathedral (2001) (43)
Pre-Disclosure Accumulations by Activist Investors: Evidence and Policy (2013) (43)
Convergence and Persistence in Corporate Governance: A theory of path dependence in corporate ownership and governance (2004) (42)
Takeover Bids below the Expected Value of Minority Shares (1988) (42)
Pay Distribution in the Top Executive Team (2006) (38)
The Pressure to Tender: An Analysis and a Proposed Remedy (2003) (38)
Ownership Structures and the Decision to Go Public: Private versus Social Optimality (2000) (37)
An Economic Analysis of Transnational Bankruptcies (1999) (36)
The Case for Facilitating Competing Tender Offers: A Reply and Extension (1982) (36)
Optimal Defaults for Corporate Law Evolution (2002) (35)
On Takeover Law and Regulatory Competition (2002) (34)
A Framework for Analyzing Legal Policy Towards Proxy Contests (1990) (34)
Staggered Boards and the Wealth of Shareholders: Evidence from Two Natural Experiments (2010) (33)
Private Ordering and the Proxy Access Debate (2009) (32)
Asymmetric Information and the Choice of Corporate Governance Arrangements (2002) (31)
How to fix bankers' pay (2010) (30)
Firms’ Decisions Where to Incorporate* (2003) (29)
Corporate Ownership Structures: Private Versus Social Optimality (1996) (28)
A Better Plan for Addressing the Financial Crisis (2008) (27)
The Growth of U.S. Executive Pay (2005) (26)
Buying Troubled Assets (2009) (26)
Adverse Selection and Gains to Controllers in Corporate Freezeouts (1999) (25)
Damage measures for inadvertant breach of contract (1999) (24)
Putting Executive Pensions on the Radar Screen (2005) (23)
Lucky CEOS (2006) (21)
Federal Corporate Law: Lessons from History (2006) (21)
The Perils of Small-Minority Controllers (2019) (21)
Bundling and Entrenchment (2010) (20)
The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation (2004) (19)
The Effect of offer-of-Settlement Rules on the Terms of Settlement (1999) (19)
A Plan for Addressing the Financial Crisis (2008) (19)
CEO Centrality (2007) (18)
A New Approach to Valuing Secured Claims in Bankruptcy (2001) (18)
The Sole Owner Standard for Takeover Policy (1988) (17)
Towards the Declassification of S&P 500 Boards (2014) (17)
Negative-Expected-Value Suits (1998) (16)
Precontractual Reliance (2001) (16)
The Pursuit of a Bigger Pie: Can Everyone Expect a Bigger Slice? (1980) (15)
Fixing Bankers' Pay (2009) (14)
The Power of Takeover Defenses (2007) (14)
The effects of insider trading on insiders effort in good and bad times (1993) (14)
The Costs of Permitting Managers to Sell Shares (2003) (12)
A Political Economy Model of Investor Protection (2005) (12)
Director Liability (2006) (12)
The Effect of Insider Trading on Insiders&Apos; Reaction to Opportunities to "Waste" Corporate Value (1991) (10)
On Divisibility and Credibility: The Effects of the Distribution of Litigation Costs Over Time on the Credibility of Threats to Sue (1996) (10)
The 'Lemons Effect' in Corporate Freeze-Outs (1999) (10)
Suits with Negative Expected Value (1998) (10)
Lucky Directors (2006) (9)
The Case for Shareholder Access: A Response to the Business Roundtable (2005) (8)
Pre-Contractual Reliance (2001) (8)
Toward a Constitutional Review of the Poison Pill (2014) (8)
Firm ' s Decisions Where to Incorporate (2013) (8)
Will Corporations Deliver Value to All Stakeholders? (2021) (8)
For Whom Corporate Leaders Bargain (2020) (7)
The Lifecycle Theory of Dual-Class Structures (2018) (7)
Vigorous Race or Leisurely Walk: Reconsidering the Debate on State Competition Over Corporate Charters (2002) (7)
The Effects of Insider Trading on Insiders&Apos; Choice Among Risky Investment Projects (1991) (7)
The Perils and Questionable Promise of ESG-Based Compensation (2022) (6)
Federal Intervention to Enhance Shareholder Choice (2001) (6)
Stakeholder Capitalism in the Time of COVID (2022) (6)
The Untenable Case for Keeping Investors in the Dark (2019) (6)
Corporate bankruptcy: A new approach to corporate reorganizations (1996) (5)
How to Make TARP II Work (2009) (5)
The Trouble with Staggered Boards: A Reply to Georgeson's John Wilcox (2003) (5)
Recent Board Declassifications: A Response to Cremers and Sepe (2017) (4)
Corporate law and economic analysis: Contents (1990) (4)
Consent and Exchange (2007) (4)
Power, rent extraction, and executive compensation (2002) (4)
Symposium on Corporate Elections (2003) (4)
The Powerful Antitakeover Force of Staggered Boards: Further Findings and a Reply to Symposium Commentators (2002) (4)
Does Enlightened Shareholder Value Add Value? (2022) (4)
Reconsidering Contractual Liability and the Incentive to Reveal Information (1999) (4)
The Harvard Law School Proxy Access Roundtable (2010) (4)
Property Rights in Stolen Goods: an Economic Analysis (2010) (4)
The Illusory Promise of Stakeholder Governance: Presentation Slides (2020) (4)
Self-Fulfilling Credit Market Freezes ó (2008) (3)
The Questionable Case for Using Auctions to Select Lead Counsel (2002) (3)
The Misguided Attack on Common Ownership (2018) (3)
The Case for Facilitating Competing Tender Offers: A Last (?) Reply [The Proper Role of a Target's Management in Responding to a Tender Offer] [Auctions and Sunk Costs in Tender Offers] (1986) (3)
The Perils of Dell's Low-Voting Stock (2019) (3)
Presentations and Discussions (2004) (3)
Unfreezing Credit Markets (2008) (3)
Shareholder Access to the Ballot (2003) (3)
Designing a Shareholder Access Rule (2004) (3)
Toward Board Declassification in 100 S&P 500 and Fortune 500 Companies: Report of the SRP for the 2012 and 2013 Proxy Seasons (2014) (3)
The Case for Empowering Shareholders (2003) (3)
The Business Roundtable's Untenable Case Against Shareholder Access (2005) (2)
Ex Ante Investments and Ex Post Externalities (2002) (2)
ESSAYS THE MYTH OF THE SHAREHOLDER FRANCHISE (2007) (2)
Optimal Sanctions When the Probability of Apprehension Varies Among Individuals (1992) (2)
Corporate law and economic analysis: A new approach to corporate reorganizations (1990) (2)
CEO Option Compensation , Risk-taking and the Financial Crisis : Evidence from the Banking Industry (2012) (2)
Rethinking Basic (2014) (2)
On the Validity of Poison Pill By-Laws (2006) (1)
An Economic Analysis of Transnational Bankruptcies* (1999) (1)
Stealth Compensation via Retirement Benefits Stealth Compensation via Retirement Benefits (2019) (1)
Concentration in the Israeli Economy and Bank Investment in Nonfinancial Companies (1997) (1)
For Whom Corporate Leaders Bargain: Presentation Slides (2021) (1)
Tackling the Managerial Power Problem : The Key to Improving Executive Compensation (2018) (1)
The Effect of Takeover Defenses (2006) (1)
The Agency Problems of Institutional Investors: Presentation Slides (2017) (1)
Latest revision : October 2013 Golden Parachutes and the Wealth of Shareholders (2013) (1)
NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository (2002) (1)
Lucky CEO's (2006) (1)
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND THE TIMING OF OPTION GRANTS (2008) (1)
Index Funds and the Future of Corporate Governance: Presentation Slides (2019) (1)
Ignorance and manipulation (1980) (1)
Welcome The Costs of Entrenched Boards (2004) (0)
OLIN CENTER FOR LAW , ECONOMICS , AND BUSINESS CEO CENTRALITY (2008) (0)
Latest revision : May 2013 Golden Parachutes and the Wealth of Shareholders (2013) (0)
The Effect of Offer‐of‐Settlement Rules on the Terms of Settlement (1999) (0)
The Overlooked Corporate Finance Problems of a Microsoft Breakup (2001) (0)
THE PRIORITY OF SECURED CLAIMS 427 over the concept of secured debt recently intensified when Professors (1998) (0)
Essays in the economics of uncertainty,bargaining, and organization (1993) (0)
Placing Election Bylaws on the Corporate Ballot (2005) (0)
13. Fixing Bankers’ Pay (2012) (0)
Necessary and Proper Clause (2017) (0)
Property Rights and Liability Rules: The Ex Ante View of the Cathedral - eScholarship (2001) (0)
Stakeholder Capitalism in the Time of COVID: Appendix (2022) (0)
A Political Economy Model of Corporate Governance ∗ (2004) (0)
Elements of Causes of Action (2017) (0)
Economic Analysis of Law (1997) (0)
Supreme Court Amicus Brief of 19 Corporate Law Professors, Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, No. 14-915 (2015) (0)
Last revision : January 2003 Misreporting Corporate Performance ∗ (2003) (0)
First draft : September 1997 Last revision : October 1998 THE “ LEMONS EFFECT ” IN CORPORATE FREEZE-OUTS (1999) (0)
How Twitter Pushed Stakeholders Under the Bus: Presentation Slides (2023) (0)
11-6-2007 Investor Protection and Interest Group Politics (2007) (0)
University of Pennsylvania Law School Penn Law : Legal Scholarship Repository Faculty Scholarship 1996 An Analysis of Fee Shifting Based on the Margin of Victory : On Frivolous Suints , Meritorious Suits , and the Role of Rule 11 (2014) (0)
A Rent-Protection Theor y of Corporate Ownership and Control (1999) (0)
Olin Center for Law , Economics , and Business THE MARKET FOR CORPORATE LAW (2002) (0)
Supreme Court Amicus Brief of 22 Corporate Law Professors, Mark Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 31, et aL, No. 16-1466 (2017) (0)
Brief of Corporate Law Professors as Amici Curie in Support of Respondents (2015) (0)
How Twitter Pushed Stakeholders Under The Bus (2023) (0)
Corporate law and economic analysis: Introduction (1990) (0)
Should Short-Term Shareholders Have Less Rights? (2019) (0)
Competing Views on the Economic Structure of Corporate Law (2022) (0)
Managerial Discretion and the Capital Structure Dynamics Managerial Discretion and the Capital Structure Dynamics (2008) (0)
HARVARD MISREPORTING CORPORATE PERFORMANCE (2003) (0)
Pricing Corporate Governance (2010) (0)
How Hedge Fund Activists Influence Target Firms (2020) (0)
The Effect of Fee-Shifting Rules on Settlement Terms (1996) (0)
Toxic Tests (2009) (0)
Last Revision : November 2001 Comments welcome OPTIMAL DEFAULTS FOR CORPORATE LAW EVOLUTION (2019) (0)
Penn Law: Legal Scholarship Repository (1992) (0)
Chapter 11 (1998) (0)
Fee Simple Absolute (2017) (0)
COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW (2018) (0)
Working Papers in Public Law Title Pay without Performance : The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation Permalink (2004) (0)
1 CEO Centrality (2008) (0)
Action of Contract (2017) (0)
Charles A. Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics The State of Corporate Governance Research (2009) (0)
The Easy Case for Full Priority in a World with Perfectly Adjusting Creditors (2018) (0)

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Pay without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation