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46
Citations
14860
World Ranking
1629
National Ranking
182

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Financial Institutions Center (FIC)
  • Fellow of the Financial Institutions Center (FIC)
  • Fellow of the Financial Institutions Center (FIC)

Overview

Alex Edmans is affiliated with London Business School in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting as well as Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Within these broad areas, they have contributed notably to subfields such as Accounting, Finance, Strategy and Management, Economics and Econometrics, and Management Science and Operations Research.

Their work covers several main topics, including:

  • Corporate Finance and Governance
  • Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
  • Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
  • Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
  • Sustainable Finance and Green Bonds
  • Financial Reporting and Valuation Research
  • Economic Policies and Impacts

Edmans' recent publications consist of several papers addressing various aspects of finance and sustainability. These include:

  • The end of ESG (2022), published in Financial Management
  • CEO compensation: Evidence from the field (2023), published in Journal of Financial Economics
  • Socially Responsible Divestment (2022), published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Sustainable Finance (2022), published in European Finance Review
  • Employee Satisfaction, Labor Market Flexibility, and Stock Returns Around the World (2023), published in Management Science

Their coauthors frequently include Tom Gosling, Dirk Jenter, Pierre Chaigneau, Daniel Gottlieb, and Caroline Flammer, reflecting collaboration across multiple research efforts.

Alex Edmans has contributed extensively to several publication venues, with the most frequent being the SSRN Electronic Journal, followed by The "business & management collection," Financial Management, Journal of Financial Economics, and European Finance Review.

They have also authored a book titled Grow the Pie, published by Cambridge University Press in 2020.

Alex Edmans holds the distinction of being a Fellow of the Financial Institutions Center (FIC).

Best Publications

  • Does the Stock Market Fully Value Intangibles? Employee Satisfaction and Equity Prices

    Alex Edmans

  • Blockholder Trading, Market Efficiency, and Managerial Myopia

    Alex Edmans

  • The Real Effects of Financial Markets

    Philip Bond;Alex Edmans;Itay Goldstein

  • Sports Sentiment and Stock Returns

    Alex Edmans;Diego García;Øyvind Norli

  • Governance Through Trading and Intervention: A Theory of Multiple Blockholders

    Alex Edmans;Gustavo Manso

  • The Real Effects of Financial Markets: The Impact of Prices on Takeovers

    Alex Edmans;Itay Goldstein;Wei Jiang

  • The Link Between Job Satisfaction and Firm Value, With Implications for Corporate Social Responsibility

    Alex Edmans

  • A Multiplicative Model of Optimal CEO Incentives in Market Equilibrium

    Alex Edmans;Xavier Gabaix;Augustin Landier

  • Blockholders and Corporate Governance

    Alex Edmans

  • The Effect of Liquidity on Governance

    Alex Edmans;Vivian W. Fang;Emanuel Zur

  • Executive Compensation: A Survey of Theory and Evidence

    Alex Edmans;Xavier Gabaix;Dirk Jenter

  • The Real Effects of Financial Markets

    Philip Bond;Alex Edmans;Itay Goldstein

  • The end of ESG

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  • Executive Compensation: A Survey of Theory and Evidence

    Alex Edmans;Xavier Gabaix;Dirk Jenter

  • Dynamic CEO Compensation

    Alex Edmans;Xavier Gabaix;Tomasz Sadzik;Yuliy Sannikov

  • Inside Debt

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  • Equity Vesting and Investment

    Alex Edmans;Vivian W. Fang;Katharina A. Lewellen

  • Blockholders: A Survey of Theory and Evidence

    Alex Edmans;Clifford Holderness

  • Executive Compensation: A Modern Primer

    Alex Edmans;Xavier Gabaix

  • Is CEO Pay Really Inefficient? A Survey of New Optimal Contracting Theories

    Alex Edmans;Xavier Gabaix

  • The source of information in prices and investment-price sensitivity

    Alex Edmans;Alex Edmans;Sudarshan Jayaraman;Jan Schneemeier

  • Employee Satisfaction, Labor Market Flexibility, and Stock Returns Around The World

    Alex Edmans;Lucius Li;Chendi Zhang

  • Does the Stock Market Fully Value Intangibles? Employee Satisfaction and Equity Prices

    Alex Edmans;Alex Edmans

  • The Effect of Risk on the CEO Market

    Alex Edmans;Xavier Gabaix

  • Executive Compensation: A Survey of Theory and Evidence

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  • Do Investment Banks Matter for M&A Returns?

    Jack Bao;Alex Edmans

Frequent Co-Authors

Xavier Gabaix
Xavier Gabaix Harvard University
Itay Goldstein
Itay Goldstein University of Pennsylvania
Wei Jiang
Wei Jiang Emory University
Tim Loughran
Tim Loughran University of Notre Dame
Julian R. Franks
Julian R. Franks London Business School
Henri Servaes
Henri Servaes London Business School
Augustin Landier
Augustin Landier Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Paris
Alan Schwartz
Alan Schwartz Yale University
Roberta Romano
Roberta Romano Yale University

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