Monthly Archives: May 2011

Weekly Announcements – May 23, 2011

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative Joins Marketing Research Centers Papers We are pleased to announce that the Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative has started a Marketing Research Centers Papers series within the MRN Marketing Network. WHARTON CUSTOMER ANALYTICS INITIATIVE RESEARCH PAPER SERIES View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Wharton-Cust-Analytics-Initiative-RES.html Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=Wharton-Cust-Analytics-Initiative-RES The Wharton Customer [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 27, 2011

1. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 2. Naturalized Jurisprudence and American Legal Realism Revisited by Brian Leiter (University of Chicago Law School) 3. How Much Better are the Most Prestigious Journals? The Statistics of Academic Publication by William H. Starbuck (New York University (NYU) – Department [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 20, 2011

1. Is Portfolio Theory Harming Your Portfolio? by Scott Vincent (Green River Asset Management) 2. Why Do Humans Reason? Arguments for an Argumentative Theory by Hugo Mercier (University of Pennsylvania) and Dan Sperber 3. Becoming a Legal Scholar by Samuel Buell (Duke University School of Law) 4. The Freewheelin’ Judiciary: A Bob Dylan Anthology by [...]
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Weekly Announcements – April 16, 2011

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Announcing 2nd Finance & Corporate Governance Conference Abstracting eJournal on SSRN In cooperation with the La Trobe University Graduate School of Management in conjunction with the School of Accounting and the School of Economics & Finance of La Trobe University, the School of Business and Law of Auckland [...]
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Who’s Who? ORCID and the Author Disambiguation Issue

I’m speaking at the ORCID (Open Research and Contributor ID) Meeting at Harvard on May 18th. ORCID is a global initiative tackling the author name ambiguity issue, with over 200 participating organizations including academic institutions, publishers, societies, corporate, non-profit and government organizations. Author names create a lot problems for repositories like SSRN. We often find errors [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 13, 2011

1. Keynote Address – Identifying and Managing Systemic Risk: An Assessment of Our Progress by Steven L. Schwarcz (Duke University – School of Law) 2. Why Do Humans Reason? Arguments for an Argumentative Theory by Hugo Mercier (University of Pennsylvania) and Dan Sperber 3. Book Review: Stephen Hopgood, ‘Keepers of the Flame: Understanding Amnesty International’ [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 6, 2011

1. Why Do Humans Reason? Arguments for an Argumentative Theory by Hugo Mercier (University of Pennsylvania) and Dan Sperber 2. Market Risk Premium Used in 56 Countries in 2011: A Survey with 6,014 Answers by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) and Javier Aguirreamalloa and Luis Corres Avendaño (IESE) 3. What is [...]
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Weekly Announcements – April 25, 2011

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Announcing 2 New LSN Legal Studies Research Paper Series We are pleased to announce the University of Amsterdam and the University of Helsinki have each started a Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies series within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN). AMSTERDAM LAW SCHOOL LEGAL STUDIES RESEARCH PAPER [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – April 29, 2011

1. Market Risk Premium Used in 56 Countries in 2011: A Survey with 6,014 Answers by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) and Javier Aguirreamalloa and Luis Corres Avendaño (IESE) 2. Bitcoin: An Innovative Alternative Digital Currency by Reuben Grinberg (Yale Law School) 3. Reevaluating Standardized Insurance Policies by Daniel Schwarcz (University [...]
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