Monthly Archives: September 2009

Frequently Asked Question: What is a Top Ten List?

We count the number of times a paper has been downloaded and rank them within different categories. These rankings include the Top Ten downloaded papers for All Time and for papers distributed in a SSRN email journal in the previous 60 days for each category. Top Ten Lists are available for all SSRN abstracting journals [...]
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SSRN at Utah State University’s Regional Conference on Institutional Repositories, September 30, 2009

SSRN will be attending Utah State University’s Regional Institutional Repository Conference: Disseminating, Promoting, & Preserving Scholarship.  The conference is sponsored by Utah State University, Berkeley Electronic Press, and the Utah Academic Library Consortium.  The conference will be on the Logan campus of Utah State University on September 30, 2009. We will be presenting an electronic [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – September 25, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending September 25, 2009: 1. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 2. Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization by Paul Ohm (University of Colorado Law School) 3. A [...]
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Frequently Asked Question: How do I subscribe to abstracting eJournals?

Our abstracting eJournals contain abstracts and links to full text papers in a given topic and are delivered right to your inbox! Our sponsored eJournals and Research Paper Series are free to all users. Many Universities and Institutions have site subscriptions. Users that are properly affiliated with those Universities and Institutions can subscribe without cost [...]
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Weekly Announcements – September 21, 2009

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: University of Virginia School of Law Rejoins LSN Law & Economics RPS and Public Law & Legal Theory RPS We are pleased to announce the University of Virginia School of Law is reinstating its Law & Economics Research Paper Series and Public Law & Legal Theory Research Paper [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – September 18, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending September 18, 2009: 1. Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization by Paul Ohm (University of Colorado Law School) 2. The Equity Premium in 150 Textbooks by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) [...]
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Kauffman Foundation’s Economic Bloggers Forum

As many of you know, we have worked closely with The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to create our Entrepreneurship Research & Policy Network (ERPN). Earlier this year, they held the first Economics Bloggers Forum and I was fortunate to be able to participate.  It was a wonderful event and a great opportunity to meet and [...]
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Frequently Asked Question: How can I have my own paper included in the SSRN eLibrary?

We would like to begin addressing many of SSRN’s users’ Frequently Asked Questions(FAQs) via our blog. Each Tuesday, we will be addressing a new question. Please feel free to submit your questions via the “comments” below any posts, or email questions to Blog@ssrn.com. The FAQ for this week is: How can I have my own [...]
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Weekly Announcements – September 14, 2009

Here is the latest announcement from SSRN: Darden School of Business: Batten Institute Joins ERPN Research Paper Series Sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation We are pleased to announce that the Darden School of Business: Batten Institute has started a Research Paper Series sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation within the Entrepreneurship Research & Policy Network (ERPN). [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – September 11, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending September 11, 2009: 1. Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization by Paul Ohm (University of Colorado Law School) 2. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 3. The [...]
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Recommendation Functionality

Do you want to know what other users that have your same interests are reading? The Social Science Research Network’s database has a “recommendation functionality” (a.k.a “People who downloaded this paper also downloaded…”) that will tell you just this.  Our recommendation function gives a user a list of papers that have been downloaded by other [...]
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Weekly Announcements – September 7, 2009

Here is the latest announcement from SSRN: Announcing Third Singapore International Conference on Finance 2009 Abstracting eJournal In cooperation with the Saw Centre for Financial Studies, the Financial Economics Network (FEN) is pleased to announce the Third Singapore International Conference on Finance 2009 Abstracting eJournal. This abstracting eJournal is available to all users at no [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – September 4, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending September 4, 2009: 1. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 2. Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure by Michael C. Jensen (Harvard Business School; The Monitor Company; [...]
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Old World Meets New Technology

I am very fortunate to love what I do, love the people with which I work, and have the experiences I get to have. My work includes wonderful discussions with very intelligent, interesting people that are very often in interesting academic settings. Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to visit Oxford University, the oldest [...]
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