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Lucian Arye Bebchuk

Lucian Arye Bebchuk

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Economics and Finance
USA
2026
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Law
USA
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Law

D-Index
84
Citations
48465
World Ranking
9
National Ranking
8

Economics and Finance

D-Index
94
Citations
56512
World Ranking
140
National Ranking
105

Lucian Arye Bebchuk publication distribution in Law in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Law in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lucian Arye Bebchuk sits on this spectrum.

37–41 publications: 3 scientists 42–46 publications: 1 scientists 47–51 publications: 0 scientists 52–56 publications: 3 scientists 57–61 publications: 2 scientists 62–66 publications: 1 scientists 67–71 publications: 6 scientists 72–76 publications: 6 scientists 77–81 publications: 10 scientists 82–86 publications: 7 scientists 87–91 publications: 10 scientists 92–96 publications: 18 scientists 97–101 publications: 15 scientists 102–106 publications: 14 scientists 107–111 publications: 12 scientists 112–116 publications: 12 scientists 117–121 publications: 14 scientists 122–126 publications: 10 scientists 127–131 publications: 9 scientists 132–136 publications: 14 scientists 137–141 publications: 12 scientists 142–146 publications: 14 scientists 147–151 publications: 8 scientists 152–156 publications: 14 scientists 157–161 publications: 5 scientists 162–166 publications: 9 scientists 167–171 publications: 15 scientists 172–176 publications: 6 scientists 177–181 publications: 9 scientists 182–186 publications: 8 scientists 187–191 publications: 16 scientists 192–196 publications: 7 scientists 197–201 publications: 6 scientists 202–206 publications: 7 scientists 207–211 publications: 11 scientists 212–216 publications: 0 scientists 217–221 publications: 5 scientists 222–226 publications: 6 scientists 227–231 publications: 10 scientists 232–236 publications: 8 scientists 237–241 publications: 5 scientists 242–246 publications: 4 scientists 247–251 publications: 2 scientists 252–256 publications: 7 scientists 257–261 publications: 5 scientists 262+ publications: 100 scientists
37 publications 262+

This scientist: 283 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 262 publications or more.

Lucian Arye Bebchuk D-index placement in Law in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Law scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lucian Arye Bebchuk sits on this spectrum.

20 D-Index: 16 scientists 21 D-Index: 23 scientists 22 D-Index: 11 scientists 23 D-Index: 20 scientists 24 D-Index: 17 scientists 25 D-Index: 23 scientists 26 D-Index: 19 scientists 27 D-Index: 19 scientists 28 D-Index: 22 scientists 29 D-Index: 14 scientists 30 D-Index: 25 scientists 31 D-Index: 25 scientists 32 D-Index: 20 scientists 33 D-Index: 24 scientists 34 D-Index: 23 scientists 35 D-Index: 12 scientists 36 D-Index: 11 scientists 37 D-Index: 15 scientists 38 D-Index: 14 scientists 39 D-Index: 4 scientists 40 D-Index: 8 scientists 41 D-Index: 9 scientists 42+ D-Index: 92 scientists
20 D-Index 42+

This scientist: 84 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 42 D-Index or more.

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

Lucian Arye Bebchuk is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on topics related to corporate finance and governance, international arbitration and investment law, public procurement and policy, regulation and compliance studies, auditing, earnings management, governance, financial markets and investment strategies, as well as insurance and financial risk management.

Their research contributions cover various fields of study, including accounting, strategy and management, finance, and economics and econometrics. The subfields accounting, strategy and management hold the most publications, followed by finance and economics and econometrics.

Lucian Arye Bebchuk has published extensively in the following venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (14 publications)
  • Journal of Financial Economics (1 publication)

Notable recent papers include:

  • "The Illusory Promise of Stakeholder Governance," 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "The Perils and Questionable Promise of ESG-Based Compensation," 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Dancing with activists," 2020, Journal of Financial Economics
  • "Will Corporations Deliver Value to All Stakeholders?," 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Stakeholder Capitalism in the Time of COVID," 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Roberto Tallarita
  • Kobi Kastiel
  • Anna Toniolo
  • Alon Brav
  • Wei Jiang

Awards received by Lucian Arye Bebchuk include:

  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2004
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2000

Best Publications

  • Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem

    Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Jesse Fried

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

    Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Jesse Fried;David I Walker

  • Pay without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation

    Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Jesse M. Fried

  • What Matters in Corporate Governance?

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  • What Matters in Corporate Governance?

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  • The Case for Increasing Shareholder Power

    Lucian Arye Bebchuk

  • A Rent-Protection Theory of Corporate Ownership and Control

    Lucian Arye Bebchuk

  • THE COSTS OF ENTRENCHED BOARDS

    Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Alma Cohen

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

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

  • A Theory of Path Dependence in Corporate Ownership and Governance

    Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Mark J. Roe

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

    Lucian Bebchuk;John C. Coates Iv;Guhan Subramanian

  • 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

  • Litigation and Settlement under Imperfect Information

    Lucian Arye Bebchuk

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

    Lucian Arye Bebchuk

  • The CEO pay slice

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

  • Regulating Bankers' Pay

    Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Holger Spamann

  • The Growth of Executive Pay

    Lucian Bebchuk;Yaniv Grinstein

  • The Growth of Executive Pay

    Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Yaniv Grinstein

  • A Rent-Protection Theory of Corporate Ownership and Control

    Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Lucian Arye Bebchuk

  • The Myth of the Shareholder Franchise

    Lucian Arye Bebchuk

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

    Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Alma Cohen;Holger Spamann

  • The Long Term Effects of Hedge Fund Activism

    Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Alon Brav;Wei Jiang

  • Pay Without Performance: Overview of the Issues

    Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Jesse M. Fried

  • FIRMS' DECISIONS WHERE TO INCORPORATE

    Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Alma Cohen

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

    Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Jesse M. Fried

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

    Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Lars A. Stole

  • Pay without Performance Overview of the issues

    Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Jesse M. Fried

  • The case for facilitating competing tender offers

    Lucian A. Bebchuk

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

    Randal C. Picker;Lucian Arye Bebchuk

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

    Lucian A. Bebchuk

  • Corporate bankruptcy: A new approach to corporate reorganizations

    Lucian Arye Bebchuk

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

    Lucian Bebchuk;Louis Kaplow

  • The Illusory Promise of Stakeholder Governance

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

  • Misreporting Corporate Performance

    Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Oren Bar-Gill

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

    Lucian A. Bebchuk

  • Insider Trading and the Managerial Choice among Risky Projects

    Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Chaim Fershtman

  • The Case for Shareholder Access to the Ballot

    Lucian A. Bebchuk;Lucian A. Bebchuk

  • The Sole Owner Standard for Takeover Policy

    Lucian Arye Bebchuk

  • A New Approach to Corporate Reorganizations

    Lucian A. Bebchuk;Lucian A. Bebchuk

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

    Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Louis Kaplow

  • How to Tie Equity Compensation to Long-Term Results

    Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Jesse M. Fried

  • The Untenable Case for Perpetual Dual-Class Stock

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

  • The Debate on Contractual Freedom in Corporate Law

    Lucian A. Bebchuk;Lucian A. Bebchuk

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

    Lucian A. Bebchuk;Jesse M. Fried

Frequent Co-Authors

Louis Kaplow
Louis Kaplow Harvard University
Alon Brav
Alon Brav Duke University
Steven Shavell
Steven Shavell Harvard University
Chaim Fershtman
Chaim Fershtman Tel Aviv University
Reinier Kraakman
Reinier Kraakman Harvard University
Luigi Zingales
Luigi Zingales University of Chicago
Mark J. Roe
Mark J. Roe Harvard University
Ronald J. Gilson
Ronald J. Gilson Columbia University
Martijn Cremers
Martijn Cremers University of Notre Dame
Richard A. Posner
Richard A. Posner University of Chicago

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