Monthly Archives: March 2010

Putting your feet up on the desk helps produce results … I love it!

Last year I asked our managers to schedule a 30 minute “contemplative meeting” every day on their calendars. I realized that I was much more innovative when I scheduled this meeting with myself than when I double booked meetings all day. While I thought I was getting more done by over scheduling, I was actually [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – March 26, 2010

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending March 26, 2010: 1. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 2. Is the Potential for International Diversification Disappearing? by Peter F. Christoffersen (McGill University – Faculty of Management) and Vihang R. Errunza [...]
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APE 2010: What We Don’t Know We Don’t Know

Earlier this year I had the pleasure of speaking at Academic Publishing Europe (APE 2010) at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences about article level metrics.  APE 2010 was a very interesting conference with a wonderfully diverse audience.  The sharing was open and the discussions were quite frank, especially considering the number of competitors in the [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – March 19, 2010

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending March 19, 2010: 1. Climate Labelling and the WTO: The 2010 EU Ecolabelling Programme as a Test Case Under WTO Law by Erich Vranes (Vienna University of Economics and Business) 2. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – March 12, 2010

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending March 12, 2010: 1. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 2. Governance Matters VIII: Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators, 1996-2008 by Daniel Kaufmann (The Brookings Institution) and Aart Kraay (World Bank – [...]
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Weekly Announcements – March 8, 2010

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Announcing New LSN Sponsored Subject Matter eJournal We are pleased to announce a new Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) Sponsored Subject Matter eJournal — Reproductive Justice, Law & Policy, co-sponsored by the Center for Reproductive Rights and American University Washington College of Law. REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE, LAW & POLICY View [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – March 5, 2010

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending March 5, 2010: 1. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 2. Cultural Cognition of Scientific Consensus by Dan M. Kahan (Yale University – Law School) and Hank Jenkins-Smith (University of Oklahoma) and [...]
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Weekly Announcements – March 1, 2010

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Announcing New LSN Partners in Publishing Journals UTRECHT LAW REVIEW View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Utrecht-Law-Review.html Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=Utrecht-Law-Review The Utrecht Law Review is an electronic open-access journal which aims to offer an international scientific platform for cross-border legal research. In the first place, this concerns research in which the boundaries of [...]
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