| Performance pay and top-management incentives MC Jensen, KJ Murphy Journal of political economy 98 (2), 225-264, 1990 | 11218 | 1990 |
| Executive compensation KJ Murphy Handbook of labor economics 3, 2485-2563, 1999 | 6052 | 1999 |
| Compensation and incentives: Practice vs. theory GP Baker, MC Jensen, KJ Murphy The journal of Finance 43 (3), 593-616, 1988 | 3447 | 1988 |
| Corporate performance and managerial remuneration: An empirical analysis KJ Murphy Journal of accounting and economics 7 (1-3), 11-42, 1985 | 3313 | 1985 |
| Relational Contracts and the Theory of the Firm G Baker, R Gibbons, KJ Murphy The Quarterly Journal of Economics 117 (1), 39-84, 2002 | 2827 | 2002 |
| Optimal incentive contracts in the presence of career concerns: Theory and evidence R Gibbons, KJ Murphy Journal of political Economy 100 (3), 468-505, 1992 | 2750 | 1992 |
| CEO incentives—It’s not how much you pay, but how MC Jensen, KJ Murphy Harvard business review 68 (3), 138-153, 1990 | 2339 | 1990 |
| Subjective performance measures in optimal incentive contracts G Baker, R Gibbons, KJ Murphy The quarterly journal of economics 109 (4), 1125-1156, 1994 | 2126 | 1994 |
| Stock options for undiversified executives BJ Hall, KJ Murphy Journal of accounting and economics 33 (1), 3-42, 2002 | 1888 | 2002 |
| Relative performance evaluation for chief executive officers R Gibbons, KJ Murphy ILR Review 43 (3), 30-S-51-S, 1990 | 1606 | 1990 |
| Financial performance surrounding CEO turnover KJ Murphy, JL Zimmerman Journal of Accounting and Economics 16 (1-3), 273-315, 1993 | 1446 | 1993 |
| The trouble with stock options BJ Hall, KJ Murphy Journal of economic perspectives 17 (3), 49-70, 2003 | 1317 | 2003 |
| Remuneration: Where we've been, how we got to here, what are the problems, and how to fix them MC Jensen, KJ Murphy, EG Wruck Harvard NOM working paper, 2004 | 1095 | 2004 |
| The prince and the pauper? CEO pay in the United States and United Kingdom MJ Conyon, KJ Murphy The Economic Journal 110 (467), 640-671, 2000 | 974 | 2000 |
| CEO pay and appointments: A market-based explanation for recent trends KJ Murphy, J Zabojnik American economic review 94 (2), 192-196, 2004 | 957 | 2004 |
| Executive compensation: Where we are, and how we got there KJ Murphy Handbook of the Economics of Finance 2, 211-356, 2013 | 900 | 2013 |
| Performance standards in incentive contracts KJ Murphy Journal of Accounting and Economics 30 (3), 245-278, 2000 | 832 | 2000 |
| Incentives, learning, and compensation: A theoretical and empirical investigation of managerial labor contracts KJ Murphy The Rand Journal of Economics, 59-76, 1986 | 785 | 1986 |
| Managerial capital and the market for CEOs KJ Murphy, J Zabojnik Available at SSRN 984376, 2007 | 739 | 2007 |
| Informal authority in organizations G Baker, R Gibbons, KJ Murphy Journal of Law, Economics, and organization 15 (1), 56-73, 1999 | 693 | 1999 |