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Prof. Xavier Gabaix's research on CEO compensation was featured

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Excerpt from Business Insider -- "In a followup to their 2008 paper on CEO compensation, Xavier Gabaix, Augustin Landier, and Julien Sauvagnat just released a paper looking at how CEO compensation decreased and rebounded as a result of the crisis...During the crisis (2007 – 2009), average total firm value decreased by 17%, and CEO pay decreased by 28%. During 2009-2011, we observe a rebound of firm value by 19% and of CEO pay increased by 22%."

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