Monthly Archives: December 2009

Weekly Announcements – December 7, 2009

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Announcing New FEN Editor’s Choice eJournals We are pleased to announce the following Financial Economics Network (FEN) Editor’s Choice eJournals — Finance Educator: Courses, Cases & Teaching (Editor’s Choice), and History of Finance (Editor’s Choice). Finance Educator: Courses, Cases & Teaching (Editor’s Choice) View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/FEN-Educator-Editors-Choice.html Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=FEN-Educator-Editors-Choice [...]
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Wine Ratings Really are Random … No Kidding

Two recent articles in the Journal of Wine Economics by Roger Hodgson and discussed in Leonard Mlodinow’s Wall Street Journal article A Hint of Hype, A Taste of Illusion throw cold water on expert ratings and wine competition awards. The articles, An Analysis of the Concordance Among 13 U.S. Wine Competitions (abstract, PDF) and An [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – December 4, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending December 4, 2009: 1. Underwater and Not Walking Away: Shame, Fear and the Social Management of the Housing Crisis by Brent T. White (University of Arizona – James E. Rogers College of Law) 2. Luck Versus Skill in the Cross [...]
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