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) and Matthew D. Powers (Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP) and Steven C. Carlson (Fish & Richardson P.C.)

3. How Do Hedge Fund Clones Manage the Real World?
by Nils Tuchschmid (Haute école de gestion de Genève) and Erik Wallerstein (Geneva School of Business Administration) and Sassan Zaker (Julius Baer Bank)

4. Americans Reject Tailored Advertising and Three Activities that Enable It
by Joseph Turow (University of Pennsylvania – Annenberg School for Communication) and Jennifer King (Berkeley Center for Law & Technology; University of California, Berkeley – School of Law) and Chris Jay Hoofnagle (Berkeley Center for Law & Technology; University of California, Berkeley – School of Law) and Amy Bleakley (Annenberg Public Policy Center) and Michael Hennessy (Annenberg Public Policy Center)

5. Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure
by Michael C. Jensen (Harvard Business School; The Monitor Company; Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc.) and William H. Meckling (University of Rochester Simon School [deceased])