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Monday, October 19, 2009

I've been waiting for a paper like this

Marginal Revolution:
Steve Kaplan and Joshua Rauh write:
"...the top 25 hedge fund managers combined appear to have earned more than all 500 S&P 500 CEOs combined (both realized and estimated)."
Here is the link, here is the non-gated version.
...there is no evidence of a change in social norms on Wall Street. What has changed is the amount of money managed and the concomitant amount of pay.

There is a great deal of analysis and information (though to me, not many surprises) in this important paper. The authors also find no link between higher pay and the relation of a sector to international trade.

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