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- Bank on It: Wall Street Pay is Risky Business
- One of the big lies being told in the debate over Wall Street pay is that the link between bankers' compensation and their tendency to throw caution to the winds is poorly understood. Here's top M&A lawyer Bob Profusek of law firm Jones Day in an interview last week with...
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
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- A "Chewable" Poison Pill?
- Remember the scene in the movie "M*A*S*H*" when Painless the dentist decides to commit suicide by downing the poisonous "Black Capsule?" Following a Last Supper-style scene with his cronies and some tender nursing care, however, Painless comes back to life. Well, that's sort of what what Harvard...
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- Why Fair Market Values Should Drive Revised Bailout Plan
- The shocking at least to some of us thumbs-down by Congress to the financial buyout program now brings us to Plan 2: improving Plan 1. A number of financial thinkers and economists agree with the House majority that the first plan had a major fault -- taxpayers assumed all...
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Improving the Wall Street Bailout Proposal
- The shocking at least to some of us thumbs-down by Congress to the financial buyout program now brings us to Plan 2. Improving Plan 1. A number of financial thinkers and economists agree with the House majority that the first plan had a major fault: namely...
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Government Should Regulate Executive Pay
- Harvard economist and law professor Lucian Bebchuk weighs in with an op-ed supporting executive compensation controls now under consideration by Congress. This question is too important to be left up to companies themselves, he writes in the Financial Times. "Regulation of pay in financial institutions is...
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- Explaining Executive Compensation: Managerial Power Vs. the Perceived Cost of Stock Options
- Bebchuk, Fried, and Walker BFW analysis is comprehensive and provocative, and their evidence that pay practices reflect more than optimal contracting concerns is compelling. Equally compelling is their evidence that most pay decisions are not made by truly independent boards in legitimate arm's-length transactions. Ultimately, though, their managerial-power view is...
- White papers 2002-08-19
- Why Banks Aren't Lending You Money
- Even as the federal government has been pumping hundreds of billion of dollars into troubled banks to motivate increased lending, precious little of that green has made its way back to consumers and businesses. Why is this? Because the money isn't going directly to...
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- How We Could Let AIG Fail, Sort Of
- The Baseline Scenario submits: By James Kwak Simon and I wrote on op-ed in the New York Times today, trying to debunk the idea that, as we put it, “A.I.G.’s traders are the people that we must depend on to save the United States economy.” The AIG AIG ...
- External links 2009-03-20
- It's Good To Be Goldman Sachs
- Tim Iacono submits: Lucian Bebchuk, professor of law, economics and finance at Harvard Law School, has some thoughts to share in this WSJ op-ed on "paying for performance" at Goldman Sachs. Last week, after reporting stellar second-quarter profit of $3.4 billion, Goldman Sachs announced the setting aside of $11.4...
- External links 2009-07-24
- The "Perverse" Incentives Caused by Guaranteed Bonuses
- Are you using guaranteed bonuses to woo top talent? You shouldn't be. Harvard's Lucian Bebchuk argues your big hitters must have some exposure to downside risk. by Sean Silverthorne
- Blog posts 2009-08-28
- A healthy appetite for the right price
- If British takeover battles were decided on personal chemistry and corporate culture, rather than how much money the shareholders are offered, Kraft's hostile $16.2bn (€10.8bn, £9.8bn) bid for Cadbury would be doomed. Having irritated Roger Carr, Cadbury's chairman, by dropping in for tea and talking about money, Irene Rosenfeld, Kraft's...
- News items 2009-11-25
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