Monthly Archives: November 2010

GhostCheating (Information Overabundance – Part II)

There are dozens of papers in the SSRN eLibrary about plagiarism, paper mills, and cheating, including ones specifically about Law, Management Science, and Medicine. Since many you have a long a weekend, we think you’ll be interested in this thought provoking article about paid authorship in The Chronicle of Higher Education. The Shadow Scholar, written [...]
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Weekly Announcements – November 22, 2010

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Announcing the ESA Research Network Sociology of Culture Midterm Conference: “Culture & the Making of Worlds” Online Proceedings In cooperation with the Sociology of Culture Research Network of the ESA, the MRN Corporate Strategy & Business Policy Network (MRN-POL) is pleased to announce the ESA Research Network Sociology [...]
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Information Overabundance: What We Don’t Know, We Don’t Know

A few months ago, Peter Shepherd, Project Director at Project COUNTER, asked me to contribute an article to Against The Grain (librarians, publishers and vendors) for their Special Issue on Metrics – The Importance of Being Measured. I wrote about article level metrics at SSRN and how we view the changing world of information overabundance.  [...]
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Weekly Announcements – November 15, 2010

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Journal of Investment Consulting Joins FEN Partners in Publishing Journals We are pleased to announce that the Journal of Investment Consulting has joined our Financial Economics Network (FEN) Partners in Publishing Journals. JOURNAL OF INVESTMENT CONSULTING View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Journal-Investment-Consulting.html The Journal of Investment Consulting keeps investment management consultants [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – November 12, 2010

1. Expenditure Cascades by Adam Seth Levine (Vanderbilt University) and Robert H. Frank (Cornell University – Department of Economics) and Oege Dijk (European University Institute – Economics Department (ECO); Bocconi University – Department of Economics (DEP)) 2. The Constitution of the Roman Republic: A Political Economy Perspective by Eric A. Posner (University of Chicago – [...]
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Weekly Announcements – November 8, 2010

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Announcing 3 New LSN Research Paper Series Journals We are pleased to announce that a consortium of Nordic Business Schools and Universities has started Nordic & European Company Law, a Law Research Centers Papers series; University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, and University of Oslo Faculty of Law [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – November 5, 2010

1. The Microstructure of the ‘Flash Crash’: Flow Toxicity, Liquidity Crashes and the Probability of Informed Trading by David Easley (Cornell University – Department of Economics) and Marcos Mailoc Lopez de Prado (Tudor Investment Corp.; RCC, Harvard University) and Maureen O’Hara (Cornell University – Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management) 2. A Quantitative Approach [...]
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Weekly Announcements – November 1, 2010

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Announcing AFFI/EUROFIDAI Paris December 2010 Finance Meeting Abstracting eJournal on SSRN In cooperation with AFFI (French Finance Association) and EUROFIDAI (European Financial Data Institute), the Financial Economics Network (FEN) is pleased to announce the Paris December 2010 Finance Meeting Abstracting eJournal. This abstracting eJournal is available to all [...]
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Riding Two Surfboards, Historically Speaking

Robert B. Townsend, assistant director for research and publications at the American Historical Association (AHA), wrote about the recent AHA survey exploring the current state of new media in their field.  The findings are a very good example of what we’ve been seeing across the Humanities at SSRN; a large percentage of users with general [...]
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Modern Finance – Past, Present and Future, 2010

I’m speaking at the Chicago Booth School of Business on Thursday, 4 November 2010 for the Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Forum 2010. Jason Zweig author, editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal will moderate the panel. The panel will also include Rodney Sullivan, CFA, head of publications for the CFA Institute and Daniel Giamouridis, Assistant [...]
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