Monthly Archives: March 2011

Weekly Announcements – March 21, 2011

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Announcing New LSN Environmental Justice & Sustainability Sponsored Subject Matter eJournal We are pleased to announce a new Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) Sponsored Subject Matter eJournal — Environmental Justice & Sustainability eJournal, sponsored by the Graduate Program in Environmental Sustainability at the St. Thomas University School of Law. [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – March 25, 2011

1. A Dysfunctional Role of High Frequency Trading in Electronic Markets by Robert A. Jarrow (Cornell University – Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management ) and Philip Protter (affiliation not provided to SSRN) 2. What is Marriage? by Sherif Girgis (Princeton University Department of Philosophy) and Robert George (Princeton University – Department of Politics) [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – March 18, 2011

1. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 2. 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 at Harvard University) and [...]
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Weekly Announcements – March 7, 2011

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: University of Hong Kong Joins LSN Legal Studies Research Paper Series We are pleased to announce the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law has started a Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies series within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN). UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG FACULTY OF LAW [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – March 11, 2011

1. Facts and Questions About the Crisis in Spain (in Spanish) by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) 2. The Irish Economy: Three Strikes and You’re Out? by Constantin Gurdgiev (Trinity College, Dublin) and Brian M. Lucey (Trinity College, Dublin – School of Business; University of Dublin – Institute for International Integration [...]
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Weekly Announcements – February 28, 2011

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Announcing 2011 ATA Midyear Meeting Abstracts & Papers on SSRN In cooperation with the American Taxation Association (ATA), the Accounting Research Network (ARN) is pleased to announce the 2011 American Taxation Association Midyear Meeting papers in the SSRN eLibrary. The American Taxation Association (ATA) was founded in 1974 [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – March 4, 2011

1. Binomial Options Pricing Has No Closed-Form Solution by Evangelos Georgiadis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)) 2. Madoff’s Dirty Money by Linus Wilson (University of Louisiana at Lafayette – College of Business Administration) 3. Equity Risk Premiums (ERP): Determinants, Estimation and Implications – The 2011 Edition by Aswath Damodaran (New York University – Stern School [...]
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Mobility, the Future and Your Business – Tomorrow 10AM

I will be one of three guests speaking tomorrow morning on the “Eyes on the Future” radio show (3.4.2o11) at 10AM. We will be discussing all things mobility, apps, how they can help grow business and the access customers can gain. I invite you to stream the discussion online or if you’re in Rochester, NY [...]
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Economists in a Spotlight of Debate

On Sunday the revealing documentary “Inside Job” won an Oscar for Best Documentary (trailer, official site). This work has made waves by analyzing the financial collapse in 2008 and points the finger at corrupt politicians, financial advisers, journalists and economists. And rather fittingly, a lot of people have recently been asking economists: “Why are you [...]
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