Past, Present and Future Compensation Research: Economist Perspectives

At the 2016 Academy of Management Conference, a group of distinguished compensation researchers held a panel discussion on the future of compensation research. Their remarks were compiled into an article published recently in this journal. This article presents a similar panel of leading economists doing compensation research – Michael Gibbs, Kevin Hallock, Edward Lazear, Kevin J. Murphy, and Canice Prendergast – commissioned by editor Charles Fay.