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- Publications
- Influence
Performance Pay and Top Management Incentives
- Kevin J. Murphy, Michael C. Jensen
- Economics, Business
- 1990
Our estimates of the pay-performance relation (including pay, options, stockholdings, and dismissal) for chief executive officers indicate that CEO wealth changes $3.25 for every $1,000 change in… Expand
CEO Incentives - It's Not How Much You Pay, But How
- Michael C. Jensen, Kevin J. Murphy
- Economics
- 1 September 1990
In this 1990 "Harvard Business Review" classic, the authors begin by correcting a number of widespread misconceptions: Copyright Copyright (c) 2010 Morgan Stanley.
Does Executive Compensation Affect Investment?
- R. Gibbons, Kevin J. Murphy
- Business
- 1 August 1992
Investment decisions require trading off current expenditures against future revenues. If revenues extend far enough into the future, the executives responsible for designing long-run investment… Expand
Intra- and inter-nucleosome interactions of the core histone tail domains in higher-order chromatin structure
- Sharon Pepenella, Kevin J. Murphy, Jeffrey J. Hayes
- Biology, Medicine
- Chromosoma
- 1 March 2014
Eukaryotic chromatin is a hierarchical collection of nucleoprotein structures that package DNA to form chromosomes. The initial levels of packaging include folding of long strings of nucleosomes into… Expand
Comparing the effects of farming practices on ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) and spider (Araneae) assemblages of Scottish farmland
- L. Cole, David I. McCracken, +6 authors Mike P. Kennedy
- Geography
- Biodiversity & Conservation
- 1 February 2005
Multivariate techniques were used to compare and contrast the effects of land cover and farming practice on ground beetle and spider assemblages of Scottish farmland. For both ground beetles and… Expand
Stock Options for Undiversified Executives
- Brian J. Hall, Kevin J. Murphy
- 1 November 2001
We employ a certainty-equivalence framework to analyze the cost, value and pay/performance sensitivity of non-tradable options held by undiversified, risk-averse executives. We derive "Executive… Expand
Executive Compensation
- Kevin J. Murphy
- 1 April 1998
This paper summarizes the empirical and theoretical research on executive compensation and provides a comprehensive and up-to-date description of pay practices (and trends in pay practices) for chief… Expand