Lucian Arye Bebchuk

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
• 2026 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award
• 2023 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award
• 2004 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
• 2000 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Best Publications

• Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem

  Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Jesse Fried

  6434
  Citations

• Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation

  Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Jesse Fried;David I Walker

  4719
  Citations

• Pay without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation

  Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Jesse M. Fried

  3558
  Citations

• What Matters in Corporate Governance?

  Unknown

  3057
  Citations

• What Matters in Corporate Governance?

  Unknown

  2592
  Citations

• The Case for Increasing Shareholder Power

  Lucian Arye Bebchuk

  1839
  Citations

• A Rent-Protection Theory of Corporate Ownership and Control

  Lucian Arye Bebchuk

  1757
  Citations

• THE COSTS OF ENTRENCHED BOARDS

  Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Alma Cohen

  1692
  Citations

• Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation

  Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Jesse M. Fried;David I. Walker

  1674
  Citations

• A Theory of Path Dependence in Corporate Ownership and Governance

  Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Mark J. Roe

  1635
  Citations

• The Powerful Antitakeover Force of Staggered Boards: Theory, Evidence and Policy

  Lucian Bebchuk;John C. Coates Iv;Guhan Subramanian

  1548
  Citations

• Stock Pyramids, Cross-Ownership, and Dual Class Equity: The Mechanisms and Agency Costs of Separating Control from Cash-Flow Rights

  Lucian Bebchuk;Reinier Kraakman;George Triantis

  1527
  Citations

• Litigation and Settlement under Imperfect Information

  Lucian Arye Bebchuk

  1222
  Citations

• Federalism and the Corporation: The Desirable Limits on State Competition in Corporate Law

  Lucian Arye Bebchuk

  1176
  Citations

• The CEO pay slice

  Lucian Arye Bebchuk;K.J. Martijn Cremers;Urs C. Peyer

  1150
  Citations

• Regulating Bankers' Pay

  Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Holger Spamann

  1098
  Citations

• The Growth of Executive Pay

  Lucian Bebchuk;Yaniv Grinstein

  1066
  Citations

• The Growth of Executive Pay

  Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Yaniv Grinstein

  990
  Citations

• A Rent-Protection Theory of Corporate Ownership and Control

  Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Lucian Arye Bebchuk

  883
  Citations

• The Myth of the Shareholder Franchise

  Lucian Arye Bebchuk

  848
  Citations

• The Wages of Failure: Executive Compensation at Bear Stearns and Lehman 2000-2008

  Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Alma Cohen;Holger Spamann

  802
  Citations

• The Long Term Effects of Hedge Fund Activism

  Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Alon Brav;Wei Jiang

  780
  Citations

• Pay Without Performance: Overview of the Issues

  Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Jesse M. Fried

  691
  Citations

• FIRMS' DECISIONS WHERE TO INCORPORATE

  Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Alma Cohen

  668
  Citations

• The Uneasy Case for the Priority of Secured Claims in Bankruptcy

  Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Jesse M. Fried

  662
  Citations

• Do Short‐Term Objectives Lead to Under‐ or Overinvestment in Long‐Term Projects?

  Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Lars A. Stole

  627
  Citations

• Pay without Performance Overview of the issues

  Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Jesse M. Fried

  611
  Citations

• The case for facilitating competing tender offers

  Lucian A. Bebchuk

  585
  Citations

• Bankruptcy Rules, Managerial Entrenchment, and Firm-Specific Human Capital

  Randal C. Picker;Lucian Arye Bebchuk

  294
  Citations

• The Case for Facilitating Competing Tender Offers: A Reply and Extension

  Lucian A. Bebchuk

  281
  Citations

• Corporate bankruptcy: A new approach to corporate reorganizations

  Lucian Arye Bebchuk

  268
  Citations

• Optimal Sanctions When Individuals are Imperfectly Informed About the Probability of Apprehension

  Lucian Bebchuk;Louis Kaplow

  218
  Citations

• The Illusory Promise of Stakeholder Governance

  Lucian A. Bebchuk;Lucian A. Bebchuk;Roberto Tallarita

  217
  Citations

• Misreporting Corporate Performance

  Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Oren Bar-Gill

  191
  Citations

• The Pursuit of a Bigger Pie: Can Everyone Expect a Bigger Slice?

  Lucian A. Bebchuk

  141
  Citations

• Insider Trading and the Managerial Choice among Risky Projects

  Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Chaim Fershtman

  116
  Citations

• The Case for Shareholder Access to the Ballot

  Lucian A. Bebchuk;Lucian A. Bebchuk

  114
  Citations

• The Sole Owner Standard for Takeover Policy

  Lucian Arye Bebchuk

  113
  Citations

• A New Approach to Corporate Reorganizations

  Lucian A. Bebchuk;Lucian A. Bebchuk

  112
  Citations

• Optimal sanctions and differences in individuals' likelihood of avoiding detection

  Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Louis Kaplow

  106
  Citations

• How to Tie Equity Compensation to Long-Term Results

  Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Jesse M. Fried

  71
  Citations

• The Untenable Case for Perpetual Dual-Class Stock

  Lucian A. Bebchuk;Lucian A. Bebchuk;Kobi Kastiel;Kobi Kastiel

  45
  Citations

• The Debate on Contractual Freedom in Corporate Law

  Lucian A. Bebchuk;Lucian A. Bebchuk

  20
  Citations

• Perspectives on Corporate Governance: Pay Without Performance: Overview of the Issues

  Lucian A. Bebchuk;Jesse M. Fried

  3
  Citations