Monthly Archives: May 2009

Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 29, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending May 29, 2009: 1. Betas Used by Professors: A Survey with 2,500 Answers by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) 2. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 3. Slapped [...]
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These Times Are a Changing?

I am at the Society for Scholarly Publishing 2009 Annual Meeting.  It is very interesting and exciting to see the changes in the view of publishers.  Several years ago I sat in a keynote session where a publisher was explaining their incredibly high first copy costs and justifying them based on the value they provided [...]
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Weekly Announcements – May 28, 2009

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: New LSN Sponsored eJournals We are pleased to announce three new Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) Sponsored Subject Matter eJournals — Animal Law, sponsored by the Syracuse University College of Law; Energy Law & Policy, sponsored by the Institute for Energy and the Environment at the Vermont Law School; [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 22, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending May 22, 2009: 1. Slapped in the Face by the Invisible Hand: Banking and the Panic of 2007 by Gary B. Gorton (Yale School of Management; National Bureau of Economic Research) 2. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by [...]
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Weekly Announcements – May 21, 2009

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Legislative Repeal of Capital Punishment in New Jersey Online Proceedings View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Legis-Litigation-Reflect-Repeal.html On April 14, 2008, principal actors in the 25-year capital punishment drama gathered at Seton Hall Law School. The symposium reflected on the judicial, legislative, and popular efforts to sustain, limit, and ultimately abandon capital [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 15, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending May 15, 2009: 1. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 2. Buying Troubled Assets by Lucian A. Bebchuk (Harvard University – Harvard Law School; National Bureau of Economic Research; European Corporate Governance [...]
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Weekly Announcements – May 14, 2009

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Vermont Law School Research Paper Series View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Vermont-LEG.html Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=Vermont-LEG The Vermont Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series contains a wide range of papers from scholars at the Vermont Law School. Vermont is particularly known for its work in Environmental Law and related subjects such as [...]
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Recent SSRN Development Projects

Here is a brief overview of a few recent development projects: •      Expanded International Content – We upgraded our database to install an expanded character set, which makes uploading of non-English content easier for our international users. •      Duplicate Notification – With roughly 40 percent of submissions being some form of [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 8, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending May 8, 2009: 1. Too Big to Fail, Hidden Risks, and the Fallacy of Large Institutions by Charles S. Tapiero (NYU-Poly Institute) and Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NYU-Poly Institute) 2. Interrogation’s Law by William Ranney Levi (Yale University – Law School) [...]
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Weekly Announcements – May 7, 2009

We are always announcing new Research Paper Series, Subject Matter eJournals, and other additions to the SSRN site. So, we thought it might be useful to include a weekly round-up each Thursday. Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Bloomberg ALPHA Research & Education Research Paper Series View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/BloombergALPHA-RES.html Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=BloombergALPHA-RES The Bloomberg ALPHA [...]
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SSRN joins Twitter, Facebook, & LinkedIn

Today’s post was originally going to be a quick one describing what we are doing with “social networking” and how to follow us.  It still includes instructions below, but I was reviewing my notes from Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody for my AACSB presentation last week and realized a couple of fairly obvious points. First, [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 1, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending May 1, 2009: 1. Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Cost and Ownership Structure by Michael C. Jensen (Harvard Business School; The Monitor Company; Social Science Electronic Publishing) and William H. Meckling (University of Rochester Simon School [deceased]) 2. [...]
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