Executive Compensation
January 2006
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Federal Government
Pending Legislation
H.R.
4291
Protection Against Executive Compensation Abuse Act (Introduced
in House) (November 2005)
Securities and Exchange Commission
SEC Votes to
Propose Changes to Disclosure Requirements Concerning Executive
Compensation and Related Matters (January 17, 2006)
Speech by SEC Chairman: “Chairman's
Opening Statement; Proposed Revisions to the Executive Compensation
and Related Party Disclosure Rules” by Chairman Christopher
Cox U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (January 17, 2006)
CRS reports
A Comparison of the Pay of Top Executives and Other Workers (Updated
May 19, 2005)
Nongovernment Organizations
American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations
Executive
Paywatch
The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal
Employees
AFSCME Employees
Pension Plan Shareholder Proposals for 2006 (December 7, 2005)
Business Roundtable
Principles
of Corporate Governance 2005 (November 2005)
Council of Institutional Investors
Executive
Compensation Disclosure: How It Works Now, How It Can Be Improved
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Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy
Executive
Excess 2005 Defense Contractors Get More Bucks for the Bang 12th
Annual CEO Compensation Survey (August 30, 2005)
PBS - NOW
Executive
Pay (January 20, 2006)
Available as a Podcast
Watson Wyatt
Institutional
Investors Dissatisfied with U.S. Executive Pay System, Watson Wyatt
Study Finds (press release)
Academic Papers
Harvard Law School
"Firm
Expansion and CEO Pay" (November 2005). Harvard Law and
Economics Discussion Paper No. 533
"The
Growth of Executive Pay". Oxford Review of Economic Policy,
Vol. 21, pp. 283-303, 2005 Bebchuk, Lucian Arye and Grinstein, Yaniv
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Executive
Pensions (Earlier Circulated as Putting Executive Pensions on the
Radar Screen)" (March 2005). Harvard Law and Economics
Discussion Paper No. 507 Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper
No. 507
Journal of Corporation Law 2005
"The
Myth of the Shareholder Franchise" (October 2005).
"The
Case for Increasing Shareholder Power." Harvard Law Review,
Vol. 118, pp. 833-917, 2005.
The
Business Roundtable's Untenable Case Against Shareholder Access
Harvard Law School Olin Discussion Paper No. 516, 06/2005
Forthcoming, Shareholder Access to the Ballot (L. Bebchuk, ed.,
2005)
Pay
without Performance: Overview of the Issues (with Jesse Fried)
Harvard Law School Olin Discussion Paper No. 528, November 2005.
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