Kevin James Murphy (born 1957) is a professor at the University of Southern California.
Since 2006, Murphy has held the Kenneth L. Trefftzs Chair in Finance at the USC Marshall School of Business.
The Institute for Scientific Information's Web of Knowledge compiles a Highly Cited list composed of the most highly cited individuals within each of 21 broad subject categories; Kevin J. Murphy has been listed under Economics/Business since at least 2003.
He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago in 1984 and his BA, summa cum laude, from UCLA in 1979.
(2016) "CEO Pay and what to do about it: Restoring integrity into executive compensation and capital-market relations", Harvard Business School Press.
(2013) "Executive Compensation: Where we are, and how we got there", Handbook of the Economics of Finance, Elsevier Science North Holland, 4, 2A, 211-356.
(2013) "Executive Remuneration and Employee Performance-Related Pay: A Transatlantic Perspective", Oxford University Press.
(2008) "Strategic Alliances: Bridges Between 'Islands of Conscious Power'", Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 22, 146-163.
(2007) "Executive Stock Options and IPO Underpricing", Journal of Financial Economics, 85, 39-65.
(2003) "Explaining Executive Compensation: Managerial Power versus the Perceived Cost of Stock Options", University of Chicago Law Review, 69, 847-869.
(2002) "Stock-based executive compensation", Corporate Governance Regimes: Convergence and Diversity,Oxford University Press, 26, 625-646.
(2001) "Bringing the Market Inside the Firm", American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 92, 212-18.
(2000) "Optimal Exercise Prices for Executive Stock Options", American Economics Review Papers and Proceedings,90, 209-214.
(1999) "Executive Compensation", Handbook of Labor Economics, Elsevier Science North Holland.
(1998) "Executive Stock Options: An Economist's Perspective", American Compensation Association.
(1997) "Disney Offers a Model for Executive Compensation", Los Angeles Business Journal.
(1997) "CEO Pay and Downsizing: The Social Consequences", American Compensation Association.
(1996) "Reporting Choice and the 1992 Proxy Disclosure Rules", Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, 11, 497-515.
(1995) "Incentives, Downsizing, and Value Creation at General Dynamics", Journal of Financial Economics, 37, 261-314.
(1995) "Politics, Economics, and Executive Compensation", University of Cincinnati Law Review, 63, 713-748.
(1994) "Subjective Performance Measures in Optimal Incentive Contracts", Quarterly Journal of Economics, 109, 1125-56.
(1994) "Governance, Behavior, and Performance of State and Corporate Pension Funds", Harvard University.
(1993) "Compensation and Strategy and General Dynamics (A), (B)", Harvard Business School Press.
(1993) "Financial Performance Surrounding CEO Turnover", Journal of Accounting and Economics, 16, 273-315.
(1992) "Optimal Incentive Contracts in the Presence of Career Concerns: Theory and Evidence", Journal of Political Economy, 100, 468-505.
(1987) "Executive Compensation in Regulated Firms", William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration.
(1986) "Incentives, Learning, and Compensation: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation of Managerial Labor Contracts", RAND Journal of Economics, 17, 59-76.
(1985) "Corporate Performance and Managerial Remuneration: An Empirical Investigation", Journal of Accounting and Economics, 7, 11-42.