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Brian Main

 

Professor of Business Economics

University of Edinburgh Business School

50 George Square

Edinburgh, EH8 9JY

 

E-mail: Brian.Main@ed.ac.uk

 

 

Brian at Haas
 

Principal Fields of Interest :

Top Executive Pay

New Economics of Personnel

Negotiation

"ECONOMIC AND PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CEO COMPENSATION"

(Correlation matrix: stata correlation)

 

Brian G M Main, Calvin Jackson, John Pymm and Vicky Wright (24-12-2007)

 

Interview protocol

Paper for seminar at Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Stirling University.

28 March 2007

"Questioning the Remuneration Committee Process"

 

Material for LSE-FMG Lecture in the "Corporate Govenance at LSE" series

12 October 2006

"The Remuneration Committee Process - a study in remuneration committee decision making"

Slides for presentation:

"The Remuneration Committee Process - a study in remuneration committee decision making"

Background Paper:

"The Remuneration Committee Process
– some questions regarding remuneration committee
decision making"

 

1992 paper on Remuneration Committees:

"The Remuneration Committee as an Instrument of Corporate Governance" with James
Johnston, The David Hume Institute, Hume Occasional Paper No. 35, 1992,
54 pp. (ISBN 1 870482 31 X).

 

See also:

"Pay in the Boardroom: Practices and Procedures", Personnel Review, Vol.22, No.7, (1993),
pp.1-14.

and

"The Remuneration Committee and Corporate Governance" with James Johnston, Accounting
and Business Research, Vol.23, No.91A, (1993), pp.351-362.  Reprinted in The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics: Corporate Governance, Kevin Keasey, Steve Thompson and Mike Wright (eds.).  Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1999.

 

A Few Selected Journal Articles from career:

(For a full list of publications, see Publications in Full CV)

  1. ''Unemployment spells and unemployment experience' (with George Akerlof), American Economic Review, 70(5),Dec 1980.
  2. 'An experience weighted measure of employment and unemployment durations' (with George Akerlof), American Economic Review, 71(5),Dec 1981.
  3. 'The length of a job in Great Britain', Economica, 49(2), Aug.1982.
  4. 'Why Large Corporations Purchase Property and Liability Insurance. A Survey of the Fortune 500", California Management Review, Vol.25. No.2 (January 1983), pp.84-95.
  5. 'School-Leaver unemployment and the Youth Opportunities Programme in Scotland', Oxford Economic Papers, 37(3), Sept. 1985.
  6. 'CEO salaries as tournaments and social comparisons: a tale of two theories', (with Charles O'Reilly and Graef Crystal), Administrative Science Quarterly, 33(2), June, 1988.
  7. 'The effectiveness of YTS as a manpower policy' (with Michael Shelly), Economica, 57, Nov., 1990.
  8. 'Women and the union wage gap' (with Barry Reilly), Economic Journal, 102, Jan., 1992.
  9. 'Top executive pay: Tournament or teamwork?' (with Charles O'Reilly and James Wade), Journal of Labor Economics, 11, Oct., 1993.
  10. 'Total Board Remuneration and Company Performance', with Alistair Bruce and Trevor Buck, Economic Journal, 106, November, 1996.
  11. 'The British and American Rules: an experimental examination of pre-trial bargaining within the shadow of the law', with Andrew Park, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 47, No. 1 (February), pp. 37-60.
  12. 'Large companies and insurance purchases: Some survey evidence', Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, Vol. 25, No. 2 (April), 2000, pp. 218-233.
  13. 'Performance and Pay for UK Executives' with Alistair Bruce, Trevor Buck and Henry Udueni, Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 40, No. 2, November 2003, pp 1703-1721. ISSN 0022-2380.
  14. 'Top Executive Remuneration: a view from Europe', with Alistair Bruce and Trevor Buck, Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 42, no. 7, November 2005, pp. 1493-1506. ISSN 0022-2380.
  15. 'The ABI Guidelines for share-option based incentive schemes: Setting the hurdle too high?'. Accounting and Business Research, Vol. 36, No. 3, 2006, pp. 191-205 .
  16. 'Setting the CEO’s pay: It’s more than simple economics' with Charles A O’Reilly III Organizational Dynamics, Vol. 36, No. 1, 2007, pp. 1-12.
  17. 'The Remuneration Committee and Strategic Human Resource Management' with Calvin Jackson, John Pymm and Vicky Wright, Corporate Governance. An International Review, Vol.16, No. 3 (May), 2008, pp.225 - 238.

 

Working papers:

Old Stuff not readily available elswhere:

1997 - Hume Papers on Public Policy - An Economic Perspective on the Costs of Justice

 

Some recent working papers:

  1. “The potential for backdating executive share options in the UK. The length of a footprint – does it matter?” with Gareth Berry, Jeff Neate and Vicky Wright, University of Edinburgh Business School, Centre for Financial Markets Research Working Paper 08.01.
  2. "Corporate governance, political involvement and firm performance: an empirical investigation in Japan and Taiwan" , with Hsin-Yi Yu, August 2006
  3. "The ABI Guidelines: compliance and performance in the FTSE-100" , with Jeffrey A Neate, March 2006
  4. "Setting the CEO's Pay: Economic and Psychological Perspectives", with Charles A. O'Reilly III (download from the SSRN eLibrary as http://ssrn.com/abstract=804584), September 2005, Stanford GSB Research Paper No. 1912. Presented at Academy of Management Meetings, Atlanta, August 2006.
  5. "A Review of Some Questions on Executive Pay". Paper presented at NYU/LSE Corporate Governance Conference. London School of Economics, November 4/5, 2004.
  6. "The Minimum Assumed Incentive Effect of Executive Share Options" with Alistair Bruce, Trevor Buck and Rodion Skovoroda, paper presented at the Academy of Management Meetings (New Orleans), August 2004.
  7. "Central Scotland Airport Study", with Jonthan Crook and Bill Lever, Hume Occasinal Paper No. 62.

LINKS

Brian's full CV -html

Brian's full CV -pdf

 
   
 

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