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After a year when CEO compensation came under increasing scrutiny, Paul Solman investigates the factors that influence executive pay. Part two in the series examines the freedom of the market determining those salaries.

The suburbs of Las Vegas are one of the few areas where average housing prices stayed below their January 2000 levels. Photo by Allan Baxter via Getty Images. Editor's note | This post includes a correction at the end.