Monthly Archives: August 2009

Weekly Announcements – August 31, 2009

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Announcing Two New Sponsored LSN Subject Matter eJournals We are pleased to announce two new Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) Sponsored Subject Matter eJournals — Law & Religion, sponsored by Pepperdine University Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion, & Ethics; and Risk, Regulation, & Policy, sponsored by Center for the [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – August 28, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending August 28, 2009: 1. Are You Smarter than a CFA’er? by Oguzhan C. Dincer (Illinois State University) and Russell B. Gregory-Allen (Massey University – Department of Commerce) and Hany A. Shawky (SUNY at Albany – School of Business and Center [...]
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SSRN Development – CiteReader

In 2008, SSRN released CiteReader and Reference Technology into their Beta labs. CiteReader captures references from the papers in the SSRN eLibrary. These references are then verified and linked to the cited papers in the eLibrary. Currently, CiteReader and Reference Technology are accessible to all registered SSRN Users. Registration is free at SSRN’s User HeadQuarters. [...]
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Weekly Announcements – August 24, 2009

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: NYU-POLY Gerstein Fisher Research Center for Finance and Risk Engineering Joins FEN Research Paper Series We are pleased to announce that NYU-POLY Gerstein Fisher Research Center for Finance and Risk Engineering has started a Research Paper Series within the Financial Economics Network (FEN). View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/NYU-POLY-RES.html The Gerstein [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – August 21, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending August 21, 2009: 1. Heller High Water(Mark?) Lower Courts and the New Right to Keep and Bear Arms by Brannon P. Denning (Cumberland School of Law) and Glenn Harlan Reynolds (University of Tennessee College of Law) 2. A Quantitative Approach [...]
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Weekly Announcements – August 17, 2009

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Bancaria Joins FEN Partners in Publishing We are pleased to announce that Bancaria has joined our Partners in Publishing within the Financial Economics Network (FEN). View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Bancaria.html Bancaria is the journal of the Italian Banking Association published by Bancaria Editrice. Over the last 80 years Bancaria contributed [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – August 14, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending August 14, 2009: 1. Flash Cookies and Privacy by Ashkan Soltani (University of California, Berkeley – School of Information) and Shannon Canty (Clemson University) and Quentin Mayo (Jacksonville State University) and Lauren Thomas (Louisiana State University) and Chris Jay Hoofnagle [...]
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Weekly Announcements – August 10, 2009

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: China Economist Joins ERN Partners in Publishing We are pleased to announce that China Economist has joined our Partners in Publishing within the Economics Research Network (ERN). CHINA ECONOMIST View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/China-Economist.html China Economist is an English-language periodical that focuses on economics and business management as well as [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – August 7, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending August 7, 2009: 1. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 2. “I’ve Got Nothing to Hide” and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy by Daniel J. Solove (George Washington University Law School) 3. Governance [...]
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Recent SSRN Development Project – eLibrary Viewer

One of the biggest challenges in scholarly research today is wading through the growing mountain of content. We fully acknowledge there is an overabundance of information in scholarly research today and are working hard to make searching and sifting through the content contained in our eLibrary much easier. Since we received ~50,000 submissions last year, [...]
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Weekly Announcements – August 3, 2009

Here is the latest announcement from SSRN: Announcing EFA 2009 Annual Meeting Abstracting Journal In cooperation with the European Finance Association (EFA), the Financial Economics Network (FEN) is pleased to announce the 2009 European Finance Association (EFA) Annual Meeting abstracting journal. The abstracting journal is available to all users at no charge and contains abstracts [...]
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