Do CEOs Set Their Own Pay? The Ones Without Principals Do
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- Marianne Bertrand & Sendhil Mullainathan, 2000. "Do CEOs Set Their Own Pay? The Ones Without Principals Do," NBER Working Papers 7604, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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maximize shareholder wealth; CEO pay; luck; skimming;All these keywords.
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