Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 17, 2013

By Diane | Published: May 17, 2013

1. Psychic Numbing and Mass Atrocity
by Paul Slovic (Decision Research) and David Zionts (Harvard Law School) and Andrew K. Woods (Stanford Law School) and Ryan Goodman (New York University School of Law) and Derek Jinks (University of Texas School of Law)

2. The Failure of Crits and Leftist Law Professors to Defend Progressive Causes
by Brian Z. Tamanaha (Washington University in Saint Louis – School of Law)

3. Emotional Accounting: How Feelings About Money Influence Consumer Choice
by Jonathan Levav (Columbia Business School – Marketing) and A. Peter McGraw (University of Colorado at Boulder – Department of Marketing)

4. Stateless in the United States: Current Reality and a Future Prediction
by Polly J. Price (Emory University School of Law)

5. A Brief Introduction to the Basics of Game Theory
by Matthew O. Jackson (Stanford University – Department of Economics)

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Weekly Announcements – May 15, 2013

By Diane | Published: May 15, 2013

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:

Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet) Joins Law Research Centers Papers

We are pleased to announce Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet) has started a Law Research Centers Papers series within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN).

REGULATORY INSTITUTIONS NETWORK (REGNET) RESEARCH PAPER SERIES
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RegNet is an internationally acclaimed interdisciplinary program that serves as the central node for a network of centres, projects, institutions, practitioners and academics involved in exploring and understanding critical domains of regulation. Our mission is regulatory research at the highest international standards that makes local contributions to good governance.

Capitalism & Society Published in FEN Partners in Publishing Journals

We are pleased to announce SSRN will be publishing the Open Access journal Capitalism & Society. The journal will be part of our Financial Economics Network (FEN) Partners in Publishing Journals.

CAPITALISM & SOCIETY
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Unique among economics journals, Capitalism and Society (CAS) focuses on what makes capitalism dynamic: innovation and entrepreneurship. Topics include ownership, corporate control, entry and venture capital, the discovery process, and commercial performance. While these topics have been studied from a micro-perspective, Capitalism and Society breaks new ground as the only mainstream forum that discusses how capitalism works from a broad social science perspective. Editors of this peer-reviewed journal include some of the best-known and most widely-published scholars in the fields of economics, business, law, and sociology, such as Jeffrey Sachs, Saskia Sassen, Richard Nelson, Robert Shiller, and Nobel Prize winning economists Joseph Stiglitz, Amartya Sen, and Edmund Phelps. Overall Editors are Amar Bhide, Edmund Phelps, and Richard Robb and the journal will publish 2-3 times per year.

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Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 3, 2013

By Diane | Published: May 3, 2013

1. Feeling Good About Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-Interested Charitable Behavior
by Lalin Anik (Harvard Business School) and Lara Aknin (University of British Columbia) and Michael Norton (Harvard Business School)
and Elizabeth Dunn (University of British Columbia – Department of Psychology)

2. The ‘IKEA Effect’: When Labor Leads to Love
by Michael Norton (Harvard Business School) and Daniel Mochon (University of California, San Diego (UCSD) – Rady School of Management) and Dan Ariely (Duke University – Fuqua School of Business)

3. The Dishonesty of Honest People: A Theory of Self-Concept Maintenance
by Nina Mazar (University of Toronto – Joseph L. Rotman School of Management) and On Amir (University of California, San Diego (UCSD) – Rady School of Management) and Dan Ariely (Duke University – Fuqua School of Business)

4. Psychic Numbing and Mass Atrocity
by Paul Slovic (Decision Research) and David Zionts (Harvard Law School) and Andrew K. Woods (Stanford Law School) and Ryan Goodman (New York University School of Law) and Derek Jinks (University of Texas School of Law)

5. Synthetic Commodity Money
by George Selgin (University of Georgia)

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Weekly Top 5 Papers – April 26, 2013

By Diane | Published: April 26, 2013

1. Feeling Good About Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-Interested Charitable Behavior
by Lalin Anik (Harvard Business School) and Lara Aknin (University of British Columbia) and Michael Norton (Harvard Business School)
and Elizabeth Dunn (University of British Columbia – Department of Psychology)

2. The ‘IKEA Effect’: When Labor Leads to Love
by Michael Norton (Harvard Business School) and Daniel Mochon (University of California, San Diego (UCSD) – Rady School of Management) and Dan Ariely (Duke University – Fuqua School of Business)

Michael Norton, Daniel Mochon, Dan Ariely
After completing our initial research showing the IKEA effect (Norton, Mochon and Ariely, 2012), we were interested in understanding why people place a premium on their own creations. We examined this question in a follow up article (Mochon, Norton and Ariely, 2012), in which we found that people place higher value on their creations because they can use these to signal a competent identity to themselves and others. By building things themselves, people are both controlling and shaping their environments – proving their own competence – and displaying those creations demonstrates that competence to others. In a series of studies we showed that people associate feelings of competence with self-created products and that these feelings drive the premium attached to them. Moreover we found that reducing people’s need to signal their competence reduced the IKEA effect, while temporarily threatening their sense of competence increased their desire to build things. These results suggest that even some of the most mundane activities, such as building furniture, can have implications for people’s identities, and that these in turn can have financial consequences in the marketplace.

Mochon, D., Norton, M.I. & Ariely, D. (2012). “Bolstering and restoring feelings of competence via the IKEA effect,” International Journal of Research in Marketing, 29(4), 363-369.

Norton, M.I., Mochon, D. & Ariely, D. (2012). “The IKEA effect: When labor leads to love,” Journal of Consumer Psychology, 22(3), 453-460.

3. The Dishonesty of Honest People: A Theory of Self-Concept Maintenance
by Nina Mazar (University of Toronto – Joseph L. Rotman School of Management) and On Amir (University of California, San Diego (UCSD) – Rady School of Management) and Dan Ariely (Duke University – Fuqua School of Business)

4. The Golden Dilemma
by Claude Erb (TR) and Campbell Harvey (Duke University – Fuqua School of Business)

Claude Erb, Campbell Harvey

Roman Centurions and Gold Today

On August 23, 2011, the price of gold reached $1,913.50. Today the price is $1,450 – a drop of 25%. Gold has fallen by $150 in April alone. What is going on? Why should we care?

In June of 2012, we posted a controversial academic study called The Golden Dilemma on SSRN based on a comprehensive historical analysis that claimed that the fair price of gold was $800. This number seemed unfathomable back in June. Ten months later, it is a different story.

So how do you determine the fair price of gold?

Obviously, there is no precise formula. With stocks, we usually look at a value indicator, like the Price-to-Earnings (PE) ratio. A PE ratio of 30 is expensive. A PE ratio of 5 is cheap.

With gold, a natural benchmark is inflation. Our research shows that over the very long term, gold moves with inflation.

Let’s consider a few examples from history.

In 562 B.C., during the reign of the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar, an ounce of gold purchased 350 loaves of bread. Given the current price of gold, that works out to about $4 a loaf. Yes, you can get a cheaper loaf of bread – but the bread that many of us buy at a local bakery is that price.

The second example is more powerful because it focuses on wages. We tried to find a job 2000 years ago that we could compare with today. We ended up looking to the military.

In the era of Emperor Augustus (27 B.C. to 14 A.D.), a Roman Centurion was paid 15,000 sestertii. Given that 1 gold aureus=1000 sertertii and given there is 8 grams of gold in an aureus, the pay comes to 38.58 ounces of gold. At current prices, this is about $56,000 per year.

The Centurion who commanded 80 Legionaries is roughly equivalent to a U.S. Army Captain. The current wage for a Captain is $46,000 – which is fairly close.

This implies that gold is a good store of value. Essentially, gold is a good inflation hedge – but our examples are over the very, very, very long term, more than 2,000 years.

Our paper looked at the price of gold over history and noted that when the “real” price (adjusted for inflation) rose above its average, it usually reverted lower.

We calculated that the fair price, based on the level of inflation in 2012, was $800. The market price in 2012 was far higher. We also documented that, in the past, when you purchase gold when the real price is high, the future returns are very low.
Gold Price graph

Why is this important?

Investors (both individual investors and institutional investors) make the assumption that gold is an inflation hedge. Many institutional investors buy gold to fulfill their mandate to protect against inflation.

However, our paper shows that gold is an awful inflation hedge for investors.

Gold is a good inflation hedge if your investment horizon is measured in centuries – not years.

There is a simple reason. Gold prices are extremely volatile. Inflation is not volatile. As a result, gold is an unreliable hedge for inflation. Our paper shows that even with a 20-year horizon, gold is a terrible inflation hedge.

So where are we?

First, don’t expect an investment in gold to provide an inflation hedge. We are not saying ‘don’t hold any gold’. Our research also shows that a diversified portfolio of commodities (which includes gold) can provide a good inflation hedge over reasonable investment horizons.

Second, beware of buying gold when the inflation-adjusted price is high. Historically, the fair price of gold is closer to $800 than $1,450.

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Claude B. Erb is a Los Angeles based retired fixed income and commodity manager and Campbell R. Harvey is Professor Finance at Duke University, Durham, NC. Their research is available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2078535.

5. Why Did Law Professors Misunderestimate the Lawsuits against PPACA?
by David Hyman (University of Illinois College of Law)

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Weekly Announcements – April 24, 2013

By Diane | Published: April 24, 2013

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:

Announcing Expansion of PSN Political Economy: International Political Economy eJournal

We are pleased to announce the expansion of Political Science Network (PSN) Political Economy: International Political Economy eJournal into the following eJournals:

INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY: GLOBALIZATION eJOURNAL
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Editor: David A. Lake, Professor, UC San Diego

Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts related to the topic of globalization in the international political economy. Globalization is the increase of the speed of technology development, trade, interdependence, and world markets. Papers included under this eJournal might examine the role technology and communication have played in a globalized world, how the global labor market has been affected or altered due to increased trade, communication, and technology changes due to globalization, or how globalization might impact the role of the state and existing political institutions. Globalization might also affect existing cultural institutions, have disparate consequences for developed and developing countries or cause increased connections or interdependence among countries. Papers might address any of those issues or others related to the international political economy and globalization.

INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY: INVESTMENT & FINANCE eJOURNAL
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Editor: David A. Lake, Professor, UC San Diego

Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts relating to the topic of international investment and finance in the international political economy. Topics under this eJournal include the lending practices of global banking or the role global banks play in the international economy, the role of foreign direct investment in development, global stock trading or other types of markets, international lending practices, or papers examining the practice of multi-national corporations in international investment.


INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY: MIGRATION eJOURNAL
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Editor: David A. Lake, Professor, UC San Diego

Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts related to the topic of international migration and the international political economy. Research may focus on various topics, including but not limited to: human trafficking, environmental migration, patterns in emigration, refugees, migrant workers, or the brain drain. All papers dealing with the political economy of migration should be included under this eJournal.

INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY: MONETARY RELATIONS eJOURNAL
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Editor: David A. Lake, Professor, UC San Diego

Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts related to the topic of international monetary relations. Topics under this eJournal include papers that discuss exchange rates and currency between countries, regional monetary unions, sovereign debt crises, the International Monetary Fund, inflation and interest rates, and other papers that deal with international monetary relations.

INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY: TRADE POLICY eJOURNAL
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Editor: David A. Lake, Professor, UC San Diego

Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts related to the politics of international trade policy. Topics included under this eJournal might include the politics of the WTO, free trade agreements, import/export strategies, international trade regulation, or trade relationships as well as any paper dealing with international trade policy in the international political economy.

Singapore Management University Joins Accounting Research Centers Papers

We are pleased to announce Singapore Management University School of Accountancy has started an Accounting Research Centers Papers series within the Accounting Research Network (ARN).

SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTANCY RESEARCH PAPER SERIES
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The Singapore Management University School of Accountancy Research Paper Series aims to advance the School of Accountancy at SMU as a prominent center for creating and disseminating original and insightful research on scholarly and applied accounting topics conducted by the School of Accountancy faculty. The series serves as a platform for facilitating collaborative research by SMU faculty members and scholars worldwide, and connecting academic researchers with professional practitioners. SMU School of Accountancy Research Paper series, thus, aspires to provide our faculty, students, and professional community a forum for fruitful exchange of ideas and thoughts. The papers are published electronically and are available online or through email distribution.

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Weekly Top 5 Papers – April 19, 2013

By Diane | Published: April 19, 2013

1. Do Defaults Save Lives?
by Eric Johnson (Columbia Business School – Marketing) and Daniel Goldstein (Microsoft Research New York City)

2. The Dangers of Surveillance
by Neil M. Richards (Washington University in Saint Louis – School of Law)

3. The Dishonesty of Honest People: A Theory of Self-Concept Maintenance
by Nina Mazar (University of Toronto – Joseph L. Rotman School of Management) and On Amir (University of California, San Diego (UCSD) – Rady School of Management) and Dan Ariely (Duke University – Fuqua School of Business)

4. The Storrs Lectures: Behavioral Economics and Paternalism
by Cass Sunstein (Harvard Law School)

5. Understanding the Modern Monetary System
by Cullen Roche (Orcam Financial Group, LLC)

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Weekly Announcements – April 17, 2013

By Diane | Published: April 17, 2013

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:

Tokyo Center for Economic Research (TCER) Joins Economics Research Centers Papers

We are pleased to announce Tokyo Center for Economic Research (TCER) has started an Economics Research Centers Papers series within the Economics Research Network (ERN).

TOKYO CENTER FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH (TCER) RESEARCH PAPER SERIES

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Tokyo Center for Economic Research (TCER) is an inter-university organization managed by economists at prominent universities in the Tokyo metropolitan area, since 1959. TCER has three core activities: research projects by TCER fellows, TCER conferences, and promotion of international research such as helping the Journal of the Japanese and International Economies (JJIE). The TCER working paper series was started in 2006 to provide an inter-university depository to find research papers in one place, just like NBER working papers and CEPR working papers. TCER working papers cover most JEL classifications and can be submitted by TCER fellows or invited researchers at TCER conferences.

Utrecht University Joins Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies

We are pleased to announce Utrecht University School of Law has started a Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies series within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN).

UTRECHT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW LEGAL STUDIES RESEARCH PAPER SERIES

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The Utrecht University School of Law has provided quality research and education for more than 375 years. Constant innovation has enabled the school to maintain its leading position.

Top-ranking research is conducted in all important legal fields: private law, criminal law, constitutional and administrative law and international law. Researchers collaborate intensively with foreign partners, mainly from the angle of European and comparative law. The school of law also conducts contract research and consultancy for other organisations.

Distinguishing characteristics:
- Multidisciplinary: legal researchers collaborate intensively with academics from other disciplines. The law, economics and governance disciplines have joined forces in one faculty.
- This approach supports socially relevant research connected to current issues and developments.
- The school of law’s wide-ranging research areas and academic programmes attract the most talented and motivated researchers and students.

The Utrecht University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series contains abstracts, works in progress, and published papers from our school of law.

Announcing APSA 2013 Teaching & Learning Conference Abstracts & Papers on SSRN

In cooperation with the American Political Science Association, the Political Science Network (PSN) is pleased to announce the APSA 2013 Teaching & Learning Conference abstracts and papers on SSRN.

2013 APSA TEACHING AND LEARNING CONFERENCE

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Conference URL: http://www.apsanet.org/content_31632.cfm

Meeting Theme: Teaching Political Science: Preparing Students for Success

This year marked the 10th anniversary of the APSA Teaching and Learning Conference. To honor the meeting’s contributions to the discipline, there was a special roundtable reflecting on ten years of the teaching conference and offering strategies for the future of political science education.

The APSA Teaching and Learning Conference is a unique meeting in which APSA strives to promote greater understanding of cutting-edge approaches, techniques, and methodologies for the political science classroom. The conference provides a forum for scholars to share effective and innovative teaching and learning models and to discuss broad themes and values of political science education – especially the scholarship of teaching and learning.

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Weekly Top 5 Papers – April 12, 2013

By Diane | Published: April 12, 2013

1. Do Defaults Save Lives?
by Eric Johnson (Columbia Business School – Marketing) and Daniel Goldstein (Microsoft Research New York City)

2. The Storrs Lectures: Behavioral Economics and Paternalism
by Cass Sunstein (Harvard Law School)

3. The Dangers of Surveillance
by Neil M. Richards (Washington University in Saint Louis – School of Law)

4. What is Marriage?
by Sherif Girgis (Princeton University Department of Philosophy) and Robert George (Princeton University – Department of Politics) and Ryan Anderson (University of Notre Dame Department of Political Science)

5. Choice Construction Versus Preference Construction: The Instability of Preferences Learned in Context
by On Amir (University of California, San Diego (UCSD) – Rady School of Management) and Jonathan Levav (Columbia Business School – Marketing)

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Weekly Announcements – April 10, 2013

By Diane | Published: April 10, 2013

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:

Announcing Expansion of PSN Political Economy: Development eJournal

We are pleased to announce the expansion of Political Science Network (PSN) Political Economy: Development eJournal into the following eJournals:

POLITICAL ECONOMY – DEVELOPMENT: COMPARATIVE REGIONAL ECONOMIES eJOURNAL
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Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts addressing topics on comparative regional economies as they relate to development. Papers in this eJournal deal with comparing developing economies that have not been addressed under the other development eJournals and topics, or papers that touch on multiple topics across multiple eJournals. Topics include Central & South America, Africa, Europe & Eurasia, Asia & South East Asia, Far East & Pacific, and North America.

POLITICAL ECONOMY – DEVELOPMENT: DOMESTIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES eJOURNAL
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Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts addressing topics related to the interaction of politics and domestic development strategies. Topics included in this eJournal are rural & agricultural development, urban development & urbanization, trade policy, economic growth, science & technology, infrastructure & communication, or political reform.

POLITICAL ECONOMY – DEVELOPMENT: ENVIRONMENT eJOURNAL
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Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts addressing topics related to the interaction of politics and environment in the developing world. The topics in this eJournal include research on the environmental consequences of development, including, but not limited to: the impact of global warming and climate change, the effects and costs of deforestation, sustainable development, the use and extraction of natural resources, renewable energy and resources, responses to natural disasters, environmental regulation, and environmental migration.

POLITICAL ECONOMY – DEVELOPMENT: FISCAL & MONETARY POLICY eJOURNAL
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Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts addressing topics related to the interaction of politics and fiscal/monetary policy in the developing world. Papers might include studies of debt levels, interest rates, central banking & reserves, taxation, public spending, responses to fiscal crisis, budgeting, or other papers that discuss the making and execution of fiscal & monetary policy in the developing world.

POLITICAL ECONOMY – DEVELOPMENT: HEALTH eJOURNAL
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Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts addressing topics related to the interaction of politics and health in the developing world. Topics in this eJournal address disease & illness, child mortality rates, population & family planning, access to health care, prescription drugs & antibiotics, and hunger. Papers may deal with describing these topics, efforts by the international community to address those problems, as well as the efficacy of such efforts.

POLITICAL ECONOMY – DEVELOPMENT: INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS & STRATEGIES eJOURNAL
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Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts addressing topics related to the interaction of politics and the efforts and strategies to aid development by international actors. Papers in this eJournal will examine how international actors participate in, influence, and act with the goal of aiding underdeveloped areas. Papers may discuss a range of topics including, but not limited to: foreign aid, foreign direct investment, the development activities of the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund, activities by the UN, micro-loans, or other international development organizations.

POLITICAL ECONOMY – DEVELOPMENT: POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS eJOURNAL
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Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts addressing topics related to the interaction of development and political institutions. There are numerous theories about the type of political institutions that help to spur or hinder development, and topics in this eJournal all deal with those relationships. Research might fall under the following topics as they relate to development: the type of regime, financial institutions or arrangements, cultural institutions, constitutional organization and design, political institutions (political parties, elections, etc), as well as other papers related to how political institutions relate to development.

POLITICAL ECONOMY – DEVELOPMENT: PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY eJOURNAL
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Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts addressing topics related to the intersection of politics and public service delivery in the developing world. Topics in this eJournal include the delivery of health care, energy, clean water, education, infrastructure, sanitation, security and safety, as well as papers that examine public administration in developing nations.

POLITICAL ECONOMY – DEVELOPMENT: UNDERDEVELOPMENT & POVERTY eJOURNAL
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Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts discussing the interaction of underdevelopment and poverty in the developing world. Papers might discuss why poverty or underdevelopment is a persistent problem in the developing world; the resource curse, or how natural resources can impinge development. Research might also include how culture and underdevelopment are related, how poverty can become a trap, the relationship between industrialized and non-industrialized nations (North/South relations), or how conflict could hinder development, as well as other work.

University of New South Wales Joins Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies

We are pleased to announce University of New South Wales (UNSW) Faculty of Law has started a student authors Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies series within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN).

UNSW STUDENT LAW (‘UNSWSTUDENTLRS’) LEGAL STUDIES RESEARCH PAPER SERIES
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The UNSW Student Legal Research Series (‘UNSWStudentLRS’) provides a publishing outlet for substantial pieces of research completed by UNSW Law Students across all areas of legal scholarship. Inclusion in this Series is by recommendation from members of the UNSW Law Faculty only and therefore comprises only the best student works.

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Weekly Top 5 Papers – April 5, 2013

By Diane | Published: April 6, 2013

1. Do Defaults Save Lives?
by Eric Johnson (Columbia Business School – Marketing) and Daniel Goldstein (Microsoft Research New York City)

2. The Storrs Lectures: Behavioral Economics and Paternalism
by Cass Sunstein (Harvard Law School)

3. The Dangers of Surveillance
by Neil M. Richards (Washington University in Saint Louis – School of Law)

4. What is Marriage?
by Sherif Girgis (Princeton University Department of Philosophy) and Robert George (Princeton University – Department of Politics) and Ryan Anderson (University of Notre Dame Department of Political Science)

5. Choice Construction Versus Preference Construction: The Instability of Preferences Learned in Context
by On Amir (University of California, San Diego (UCSD) – Rady School of Management) and Jonathan Levav (Columbia Business School – Marketing)

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Weekly Announcements – April 3, 2013

By Diane | Published: April 3, 2013

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Joins ERN Government & Public Agency Research Paper Series

We are pleased to announce Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City has joined our ERN Government & Public Agency Research Paper Series within the Economics Research Network (ERN).

FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF KANSAS CITY RESEARCH PAPER SERIES
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The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City publishes working papers based on the current research of staff economists. These papers cover a wide range of economic topics, including monetary policy, macroeconomics, payment methods, banking, the District’s regional economy and more. The views expressed in papers are those of the authors and don’t necessarily reflect the position of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City or the Federal Reserve System.

Edmond J. Safra Research Lab Joins Law Research Centers Papers

We are pleased to announce Edmond J. Safra Research Lab has started a Law Research Centers Papers series within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN).

EDMOND J. SAFRA RESEARCH LAB, WORKING PAPER SERIES
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The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics seeks to advance teaching and research on ethical issues in public life. We began in 1986 with a conviction and a problem. The conviction was that reflection on the moral assumptions and foundations of practical affairs is both intellectually worthwhile and socially valuable. Philosophy in this broad sense, we thought, could contribute to identifying and understanding the ethical issues in public life, including those in the professions. The problem was that few philosophers knew enough about professional life, and few professionals enough about philosophy, to teach and write effectively on ethical issues in professional and public life more generally. For more than two decades, under the leadership of Dennis F. Thompson, the Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy, the Center made significant strides in breaking down these barriers through its rich offers of fellowships, public lectures, workshops and conferences.

In 2009, with a mandate to expand the scope of the Center’s mission and work, current director Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, launched the Edmond J. Safra Research Lab, a major initiative designed to address fundamental problems of ethics in a way that is of practical benefit to institutions of government and society around the world. In pursuit of this goal, and to strengthen and expand the mission generally, the Center welcomes scholars and researchers from a wide range of disciplines across academia, industry, and government. As its first undertaking, the Lab is tackling the problem of institutional corruption.

Institutional corruption: the consequence of an influence within an economy of influence that illegitimately weakens the effectiveness of an institution, especially by weakening the public trust of the institution.

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Weekly Top 5 Papers – March 29, 2013

By Diane | Published: March 29, 2013

1. The Storrs Lectures: Behavioral Economics and Paternalism
by Cass Sunstein (Harvard Law School)

Cass Sunstein
Is paternalism justifiable? Many people (including many economists) have been comfortable with the view that when people’s decisions affect only themselves, government should not intrude on their decisions. But behavioral economists and cognitive psychologists have been raising serious doubts about that view. In this paper, I bring those doubts into contact with the most powerful objections to paternalism. A general conclusion is that if we know that human beings err, we should be able to identify many opportunities to improve their welfare with behaviorally informed regulation. At the same time, such regulation should generally consist of nudges — forms of regulation that steer people but that ultimately maintain freedom of choice. The paper can be taken as an invitation both for a lot more theoretical work and for a much better empirical understanding of the costs and benefits of paternalistic approaches.

2. Walking Back from Cyprus
by Lee Buchheit (Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP – New York Office) and G. Gulati (Duke University – School of Law)

3. A Brief Introduction to the Basics of Game Theory
by Matthew Jackson (Stanford University – Department of Economics)

4. Choice Construction Versus Preference Construction: The Instability of Preferences Learned in Context
by On Amir (University of California, San Diego (UCSD) – Rady School of Management) and Jonathan Levav (Columbia Business School – Marketing)

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Weekly Announcements – March 27, 2013

By Diane | Published: March 27, 2013

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:

University of Arkansas Joins Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies

We are pleased to announce University of Arkansas School of Law has started a Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies series within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN).

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SCHOOL OF LAW LEGAL STUDIES RESEARCH PAPER SERIES
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University of Arkansas School of Law topic areas:

Arkansas: Bench & Bar Research Papers
Arkansas: Emerging Scholars Research Papers
Arkansas: Faculty Research Papers

The University of Arkansas School of Law Research Paper Series is an outlet for scholarship regarding the law, which serves Arkansas and the world. These papers reflect cutting edge research by our faculty, bar, and students. Some of it is intensely practical and designed to help the lawyer and the judge in the practice of law in Arkansas. Some of it presents vital law reforms that should change the law of the United States. Some of it explains the law for this and for all time. We welcome lawyers and researchers across the globe to share in our work.

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Weekly Top 5 Papers – March 22, 2013

By Diane | Published: March 22, 2013

1. Gone in 60 Seconds: The Impact of the Megaupload Shutdown on Movie Sales
by Brett Danaher (Wellesley College – Department of Economics) and Michael Smith (Carnegie Mellon University – H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management)

Brett Danaher, Michael Smith
With a large body of the academic literature finding that illegal filesharing poses a threat to media sales, a natural follow-on question is: how should media companies respond to this threat? In our prior research we found that making it easier to consume through legitimate digital distribution channels can reduce the demand for pirated content. In this research we analyze whether the reverse is also true: Does making it harder for consumers to access digital piracy increase demand through legitimate channels. This question has significant managerial and policy implications as businesses and governments struggle with how to respond to the financial threat piracy poses to the creative industries.

We analyze this question in the setting of Megaupload.com, a site that was one of the most popular piracy-enabling sites online, became the target of a U.S. indictment because of its piracy activities, and ultimately was shutdown over the course of several days in Janary 2012. We use this event to ask whether government interventions aimed at making piracy less attractive by raising the implicit cost of piracy can also be effective at migrating consumers from illegal to legal channels. Our research finds that the answer to this question is “yes” — in our data the shutdown of Megaupload seems to have caused a 6-10% increase in worldwide digital movie sales for the two major studios in our dataset.

Moving forward, while our study establishes that shutting down a major piracy site can cause some consumers to migrate from illegal to legal channels, in the future we are interesting in studying whether related interventions, such as the voluntary Copyright Alert System adopted by Internet Service Providers in the U.S., are similarly effective and what attributes of these anti-piracy programs (e.g., education, threats of prosecution, reducing the convenience of piracy, voluntary or government-mandated) are most important in driving any observed changes.

2. A Thought Experiment
by Louis Seidman (Georgetown University Law Center)

Louis Seidman
This piece was intended as satire, and satire loses its point when one tries to say something serious about it. I’m therefore tempted to let the piece speak for itself. I’m nonetheless going to say something about my motivations in writing it, in part because of some of the criticism the piece has received.

The title of the piece is “A Thought Experiment,” and I meant it to be taken in just that way. The piece is designed to elicit thought along the following four dimensions:

1. How would Justice Scalia have voted in Brown, and what should we think of Justice Scalia, given how he would have or might have voted in Brown? Scalia himself has claimed that he would have voted with the rest of the Court, and has offered some reasons why. Given his other jurisprudential commitments, I think that there is at least doubt on that score. In any event, this is only one point of the piece.

2. From the vantage point of 2013, the “neutral” reasons that the hypothetical Justice Scalia advances for his opposition to desegregation seem like thinly-disguised bigotry. Will modern opposition to constitutional gay and gender rights look like thinly-disguised bigotry in 2052?

3. Some of the criticisms that “Justice Scalia” advances in his hypothetical Brown opinion are not frivolous. If one nonetheless supports Brown, what does that say about the criteria that Justice Scalia and many others use to evaluate Supreme Court opinions?

4. Finally, Justice Scalia is famous for his sarcastic and mocking style, which I hope my satire captures. Like all of us, Justice Scalia cannot be sure that he is on the right side of history, and mockery and sarcasm look pretty bad years later if one turns out to be on the wrong side. Does this suggest that he ought to exhibit a bit more restraint and empathy for his jurisprudential adversaries?

3. The Implausibility of Secrecy
by Mark Fenster (University of Florida – Fredric G. Levin College of Law)

Mark Fenster
I have written several articles on various aspects of the government “transparency” ideal — critiquing its theoretical basis, noting the difficulty of imposing it on the contemporary administrative state, documenting the various political and social movements that have attempted to advance transparency reform, and offering case studies of a government entity and a private one devoted to disclosing secret state information. To put it bluntly and as simply as possible, my overall thesis has been that transparency is an ideal that is impossible to accomplish, based on certain muddy and untested assumptions, and likely not to be particular popular or workable if imposed in its strong, ideal form.

This paper seeks to apply these insights to transparency’s opposite, government secrecy. Using a series of case studies, I note the parallels between transparency’s impossibility and secrecy’s improbability and implausibility by explaining that both ideas wrongly assume that the government can control information. The paper initially grew out of my interest in Vice President Cheney’s devotion to and well-developed justification for secrecy, and the fact that his success in controlling information was at best temporary, and sometimes more theatrical and political than actual. This led me to begin noticing that many of the things that are deemed secretive, from covert operations to redacted documents, in fact leak out. To be clear, I don’t consider secrecy impossible, nor do I consider it to be a defensible administrative strategy in a democratic state except in certain tightly defined contexts. Rather, my purpose is in the first instance descriptive and functional: secrecy often doesn’t work, and we should reform the state in a way that secrecy is at once much more difficult to accomplish and more effective (though temporary) when it is needed.

4. A Brief Introduction to the Basics of Game Theory
by Matthew Jackson (Stanford University – Department of Economics)

5. Ham Sandwich Nation: Due Process When Everything is a Crime
by Glenn Reynolds (University of Tennessee College of Law)

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Weekly Announcements – March 20, 2013

By Diane | Published: March 21, 2013

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:

HEC Paris Joins MRN Business School Research Papers

We are pleased to announce HEC Paris has started a MRN Business School Research Papers series within the Management Research Network (MRN).

HEC PARIS RESEARCH PAPER SERIES
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HEC Paris topic areas:

HEC Paris: Accounting & Management Control
HEC Paris: Economics & Decision Sciences
HEC Paris: Finance
HEC Paris: Languages & Cultures
HEC Paris: Management & Human Resources
HEC Paris: Marketing
HEC Paris: Operations Management & Information Technology
HEC Paris: Strategy & Business Policy
HEC Paris: Tax & Law

Founded in 1881 HEC is one of France’s oldest elite higher education “Grande Ecoles”.

Research conducted by HEC Paris’ faculty covers a wide range of topics in the fields of Accounting and Management Control, Economics and Decision Sciences, Finance, Languages and Cultures, Management and Human Resources, Marketing, Operations Management and Information Technology, Strategy and Business Policy and Tax and Law.

Announcing 2013 National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) Annual Meeting Abstracts & Papers on SSRN

In cooperation with the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS), the Political Science Network (PSN) is pleased to announce the 2013 National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) Annual Meeting abstracts and papers on SSRN.

2013 NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK POLITICAL SCIENTISTS (NCOBPS) ANNUAL MEETING
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Conference URL: http://www.ncobps.org/?page=AnnualMeeting

Black Power challenges people of African Descent to ascertain political and economic strength. This notion has shifted Black empowerment from an era of protest politics rooted in Black Nationalist strategies of political equality and social justice to the institutionalized approach of political incorporation (i.e., electing Black officials to positions of power). However, the socioeconomic status of African Americans has not changed even if it has improved over time. The continual decline of progressive and egalitarian institutions presents a challenge which must be met with robust and unwavering opposition. Poverty and unemployment continue to disproportionately affect people of color; the Prison Industrial Complex continues to wreck havoc on the lives of Black and Brown Males and Females – young, black females in particular are among the fastest growing prison population although their crime numbers have not risen; the Achievement Gap widens; and health disparities continue to require a purposive course of action. Across the globe, the struggle for self-determination and equality continue; the Arab Spring in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya have incited newfound appreciation for protest politics; the U.S.-Columbia Free Trade Agreement was passed in 2012 despite human rights violations against Afro-Columbians; and China’s economic expansion in Africa continues to fly in the face of Western influence on the continent; How do Black Activists and Black Intellectuals engage the politics of disparity? Must we reconceptualize Black Power? What is the state of Black Politics? Black progressive movements have long offered an alternative to American political discourse. Thus, the African American community must continue to agitate, mobilize, and demand accountability from the status quo.

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Weekly Top 5 Papers – March 15, 2013

By Diane | Published: March 15, 2013

1. Gone in 60 Seconds: The Impact of the Megaupload Shutdown on Movie Sales
by Brett Danaher (Wellesley College – Department of Economics) and Michael Smith (Carnegie Mellon University – H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management)

Brett Danaher, Michael Smith
With a large body of the academic literature finding that illegal filesharing poses a threat to media sales, a natural follow-on question is: how should media companies respond to this threat? In our prior research we found that making it easier to consume through legitimate digital distribution channels can reduce the demand for pirated content. In this research we analyze whether the reverse is also true: Does making it harder for consumers to access digital piracy increase demand through legitimate channels. This question has significant managerial and policy implications as businesses and governments struggle with how to respond to the financial threat piracy poses to the creative industries.

We analyze this question in the setting of Megaupload.com, a site that was one of the most popular piracy-enabling sites online, became the target of a U.S. indictment because of its piracy activities, and ultimately was shutdown over the course of several days in Janary 2012. We use this event to ask whether government interventions aimed at making piracy less attractive by raising the implicit cost of piracy can also be effective at migrating consumers from illegal to legal channels. Our research finds that the answer to this question is “yes” — in our data the shutdown of Megaupload seems to have caused a 6-10% increase in worldwide digital movie sales for the two major studios in our dataset.

Moving forward, while our study establishes that shutting down a major piracy site can cause some consumers to migrate from illegal to legal channels, in the future we are interesting in studying whether related interventions, such as the voluntary Copyright Alert System adopted by Internet Service Providers in the U.S., are similarly effective and what attributes of these anti-piracy programs (e.g., education, threats of prosecution, reducing the convenience of piracy, voluntary or government-mandated) are most important in driving any observed changes.

2. A Brief Introduction to the Basics of Game Theory
by Matthew Jackson (Stanford University – Department of Economics)

3. The Dirty Laundry of Employee Award Programs: Evidence from the Field
by Timothy Gubler (Washington University in Saint Louis – John M. Olin Business School) and Ian Larkin (Harvard Business School – Negotiation, Organizations and Markets Unit) and Lamar Pierce (Washington University, Saint Louis – John M. Olin School of Business)

Lamar Pierce
Despite their prevalent use, corporate awards have been little researched by economists and management scholars. Our paper was motivated by the observation that awards are widely thought to be “free” or cheap methods by which to motivate employees. Because there is little cost to give them, in the worst case awards simply do not influence employee behavior, and are therefore a “wash” from the point of view of the company. In the best case they motivate employees to perform better, and represent a cheaper way to induce positive actions than, for example, performance pay. Our study, however, found that a simple award for perfect attendance had a number of unanticipated downsides and actually appears to have demotivated certain employee groups. Most strikingly, employees who had either previously exhibited good attendance behavior or high productivity reacted to the introduction of the award by working less hard, leading to a negative impact on overall plant productivity. Our results demonstrate awards for one action – in this case showing up on time – can have spillover effects to other actions, such as productivity. Overall, our research suggests that companies need to carefully think through the anticipated and unanticipated responses of employees to “free” tools such as corporate awards, and that companies should think twice about awarding behavior that an employee should exhibit anyway. Awards surely have a place as a motivational tool, but rewarding excellence may be a better strategy than rewarding behavior expected of all employees.

4. Inside the ‘Black Box’ of Sell-Side Financial Analysts
by Lawrence D. Brown (Temple University) and Andrew C. Call (University of Georgia) and Michael B. Clement (University of Texas at Austin – Department of Accounting) and Nathan Y. Sharp (Texas A&M University – Department of Accounting)

5. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation
by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management)

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Weekly Announcements – March 13, 2013

By Diane | Published: March 13, 2013

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:

Announcing 2013 ATA Midyear Meeting Abstracts & Papers on SSRN

In cooperation with the American Taxation Association (ATA), the Accounting Research Network (ARN) is pleased to announce the 2013 American Taxation Association Midyear Meeting papers in the SSRN eLibrary.

The American Taxation Association (ATA) was founded in 1974 and joined the American Accounting Association (AAA) in 1978 as the Tax Section of the AAA. Memberships and student memberships are open to persons with an interest in tax education and research. Please see the ATA objectives to learn more about our goals. Under the guidance of President Sandy Callaghan the ATA’s committees provide a wide variety of services to the ATA membership. Abstracts of the papers will be distributed in subject-specific eJournals within ARN and, where appropriate, in the eJournals of our sister networks.

View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/2013-American-Taxation-Assoc-Mtg.html

Conference URL: http://aaahq.org/ata

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Weekly Top 5 Papers – March 8, 2013

By Diane | Published: March 8, 2013

1. Afterword: The Libertarian Middle Way
by Randy Barnett (Georgetown University Law Center)

2. A Brief Introduction to the Basics of Game Theory
by Matthew Jackson (Stanford University – Department of Economics)

3. What Privacy Is For
by Julie Cohen (Georgetown University Law Center)

4. The Transnational Origins of Constitutions: Evidence from a New Global Data Set on Constitutional Rights
by Benedikt Goderis (Tilburg University) and Mila Versteeg (University of Virginia School of Law)

5. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation
by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management)

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SSRN Q&A: Andre De Quadros (Music Network)

By Gregg | Published: March 7, 2013

Music is a continually evolving subject area that connects researchers, and scholars in other disciplines, in a variety of interesting ways. André de Quadros is a leader in creating and expanding these connections and we are very excited to work with him. He recently shared his thoughts with me from Asia via Skype (when he should have been sleeping) about what we are creating together.

Q: Tell us about André?

André de Quadros is a music educator, scholar, conductor, and human rights activist who has performed, presented, and conducted research in more than forty countries. He is a professor of music with faculty affiliations in African, Asian, and Muslim studies, and the Prison Education Program.

Q: For the uninitiated, what is ethnomusicology?

Ethnomusicology is concerned with studying people making music – the ethnography and anthropology of music. In addition to the study of non-Western music, ethnomusicologists also study the social context of Western music.

Q: A network for scholarship on music seems like a natural fit within SSRN, as music always involves many, from composition to performance to the audience. How have music scholars and composers shared their research to date and what impact can the Music Research & Composition Network (MRCN) have on them?

Composers and music scholars have disseminated their music in a variety of ways, through scholarly journals, and a variety of online means. MRCN can have a major impact by offering a single online site that is open access. There is no other comparable site.

Q: What is your vision for the MRCN with SSRN? Your research and scholarship is transnational and also covers education and development. As an interdisciplinary space, what are your goals for broadening the connections with your scholarship?

My vision for MRCN is to create a single site for a community of musicians and scholars. Our musical community is divided into separate areas and there are insufficient opportunities for coming together and to have access to the latest in scholarship and creative work. Many scholars seek to publish in peer-reviewed journals, but are frustrated by the long waiting time to get their ideas out. MRCN can help scholars to influence the discipline through the open access aspect of MRCN. On the compositional front, composers generally create their own websites. MRCN can bring the composers and their potential audience together in a single marketplace of ideas.

Q: Where do you think the ecosystem of scholarly communications is heading in the next decade? Do you have any particular insights about changing roles and expectations of audiences and participation that might apply to scholarship?

We are going to see a revolution in scholarly communications in the future and it is almost impossible to imagine what those changes might be. We did not anticipate the changes from the CD to the download and to iTunes. So, we are headed for big and exciting times and MRCN intends to be at the front end of those changes.

Q: How important is it for scholarship in MRCN to have access and connection to rich media like sound files?

Music is about sound. At the moment, scholarly publications in music do not have accompanying sound files, and MRCN can provide this rare opportunity for scholars and composers alike.

 

Thanks Andre, we are excited to be on the forefront together!

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Weekly Announcements – March 6, 2013

By Diane | Published: March 6, 2013

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:

Thurgood Marshall School of Law Joins Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies Series

We are pleased to announce Thurgood Marshall School of Law has started a Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies series within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN).

THURGOOD MARSHALL SCHOOL OF LAW LEGAL STUDIES RESEARCH PAPER SERIES
View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Thurgood-Marshall-LEG.html

The mission of the Thurgood Marshall School of Law is to expand opportunities for the underserved in the legal profession; prepare a diverse group of students for leadership roles in the legal profession, business and government; and offer leadership in teaching, research, and service. Since 1947, Thurgood Marshall School of Law has been a catalyst for initiating courageous conversations and a progenitor of equality, diversity, and opportunity. As a community of change agents, our law school community has empowered the disenfranchised and underserved by preparing lawyers to practice law and to shape social policy. With this empowered heritage, our highly diverse law school faculty is a community of prolific writers whose legal scholarship enriches, embraces, and celebrates an array of legal issues and perspectives. We invite you to delve into our legal scholarship, containing accepted and working papers from our faculty.

Stevens Institute of Technology Joins MRN Business School Research Papers

We are pleased to announce Stevens Institute of Technology – Howe School has started a MRN Business School Research Papers series within the Management Research Network (MRN).

STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY – HOWE SCHOOL RESEARCH PAPER SERIES
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The Research Paper Series of the Howe School of Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology includes abstracts and papers from a wide range of research fields related to business, economics, entrepreneurship, innovation and technology management. As a business school within a technology-based university, and located at a center of world finance and commerce in the New York City metropolitan region, the Howe School develops and educates leaders who address business and societal challenges occurring at the interface between business and technological change. Located in Hoboken, NJ the Howe School enrolls some 250 undergraduates, 1,000 master’s students, and 30 PhD students.

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