Monthly Archives: October 2009

Weekly Top 5 Papers – October 30, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending October 30, 2009: 1. Common Errors in the Interpretation of the Ideas of The Black Swan and Associated Papers by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NYU Poly – Department of Finance and Risk Engineering) 2. Frames from the Framers: How America’s Revolutionaries [...]
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Humbled by Repository Ranking :)

Not to sound boastful but I was wonderfully surprised to see that SSRN was number one on the current  Ranking Web of World Repositories. The ranking is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain and includes a [...]
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Weekly Announcements – October 26, 2009

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Erasmus Law Review Upgrades Its LSN Partners in Publishing Journal We are pleased to announce that Erasmus Law Review has upgraded its Partners in Publishing Journal within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN), which includes, but is not limited to, a customized abstracting eJournal distributed to SSRN subscribers. View [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – October 23, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending October 23, 2009: 1. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 2. Technical Analysis Around the World by Ben R. Marshall (Massey University – College of Business – Department of Economics and Finance) [...]
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Weekly Announcements – October 22, 2009

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Announcing the CELS 2009: 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Online Proceedings In cooperation with the Society of Empirical Legal Studies, the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) is pleased to announce the CELS 2009: 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies online proceedings. The proceedings are available to [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – October 16, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending October 16, 2009: 1. Trust and Delegation by Stephen J. Brown (NYU Stern School of Business) and William N. Goetzmann (Yale School of Management – International Center for Finance; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)) and Bing Liang (University of [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – October 9, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending October 9, 2009: 1. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 2. Americans Reject Tailored Advertising and Three Activities that Enable It by Joseph Turow (University of Pennsylvania – Annenberg School for Communication) [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – October 2, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending October 2, 2009: 1. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 2. Patent Claim Construction: A Modern Synthesis and Structured Framework by Peter S. Menell (University of California, Berkeley – School of Law) [...]
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