Why Has CEO Pay Increased So Much?

Publication information:

Gabaix, Landier. Why Has CEO Pay Increased So Much? Quarterly Journal of Economics. 2008;123(1):49–100.

Abstract

A tractable model of CEO pay.  An upshot:  the six-fold rise in CEO pay between 1980 and 2003 can be fully attributed to the six-fold increase in market capitalization of large companies during that period.