Kevin James Murphy (born 1957) is a professor at the University of Southern California. Since 2006, Murphy has held the Kenneth L. Trefftzs Chair in Finance at the USC Marshall School of Business. He is also a Professor of Law at the USC Gould School of Law and Professor of Economics at USC's College of Letters, Arts & Science. Career Before teaching at USC, Kevin Murphy was a professor at the Harvard Business School and the University of Rochester's William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration. The Institute for Scientific Information's Web of Knowledge compiles a Highly Cited list composed of the most highly cited individuals within each of 21 broad subject categories; Kevin J. Murphy has been listed under Economics/Business since at least 2003. Kevin Murphy is a member of the American Economic Association and an associate editor of the Journal of Corporate Finance and Journal of Financial Economics. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago in 1984 and his BA, summa cum laude, from UCLA in 1979. Research List Murphy, Kevin.,Sandino, Tatiana. (2016) "Compensation Consultants and the Level, Composition and Complexity of CEO Pay". Barron, Daniel.,Gibbons, Robert.,Gil, Ricard.,Murphy, Kevin. (2016) "Relational Adaptation under Reel Authority". Jensen, Michael.,Murphy, Kevin.,Wruck, Eric. (2016) "CEO Pay and what to do about it: Restoring integrity into executive compensation and capital-market relations", Harvard Business School Press. Murphy, Kevin.,Zabojnik, Jan. (2016) "Managerial Capital and the Market for CEOs". Murphy, Kevin. (2013) "Regulating Banking Bonuses in the European Union: A Case Study in Unintended Consequences", European Financial Management, 19, 631-657. Murphy, Kevin. (2013) "Executive Compensation: Where we are, and how we got there", Handbook of the Economics of Finance, Elsevier Science North Holland, 4, 2A, 211-356. Fernandes, Nuno.,Ferreira, Miguel.,Matos, Pedro.,Murphy, Kevin. (2013) "Are US CEOs Paid More? New International Evidence", Review of Financial Studies, 26, 323-367. Conyon, Martin.,Fernandes, Nuno.,Ferreira, Miguel.,Matos, Pedro.,Murphy, Kevin. (2013) "The Executive Compensation Controversy: A Transatlantic Analysis ", Executive Remuneration and Employee Performance-Related Pay: A Transatlantic Perspective, Oxford University Press, 1, Part I, 8-115. Boeri, Tito.,Lucifora, Claudio.,Murphy, Kevin. (2013) "Executive Remuneration and Employee Performance-Related Pay: A Transatlantic Perspective", Oxford University Press. Murphy, Kevin. (2012) "Pay, Politics, and the Financial Crisis", Rethinking the Financial Crisis, Russell Sage Foundation, 12. Murphy, Kevin. (2012) "The Politics of Pay: A Legislative History of Executive Compensation ", The Research Handbook on Executive Pay, Edward Elgar, 1. Murphy, Kevin. (2012) "CEO Bonus Plans and