Monthly Archives: September 2011

Weekly Announcements – September 26, 2011

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Announcing Fifth Singapore International Conference on Finance 2011 Abstracting eJournal on SSRN In cooperation with the National University of Singapore Saw Centre for Financial Studies, the Financial Economics Network (FEN) is pleased to announce the Fifth Singapore International Conference on Finance 2011. This abstracting eJournal is available to [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – September 30, 2011

1. Optimal Software Free Trial Strategy: The Impact of Network Externalities and Consumer Uncertainty by H. Kenneth Cheng (University of Florida – Warrington College of Business Administration) and Yipeng Liu (University of Florida – Warrington College of Business Administration) 2. WACC: Definition, Misconceptions and Errors by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) [...]
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Remixing Scholarly Research

  Kirby Ferguson is a quirky New York-based filmmaker with an interesting idea. He wanted to show copying was often part of the creative process by providing popular examples of remixed content. The research and examples from different types of media have been aggregated into an extremely well done, short video series titled Everything Is [...]
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Public Knowledge Project Conference 2011

I’m flying to Berlin, Germany this weekend for the third international PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference (#pkp2011) and looking forward to presenting on SSRN’s Open Access approach and the benefits of article level metrics.  The PKP conference attendees are a broad group of publishers and others interested in Open Source software, new publishing models and providing greater [...]
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Weekly Announcements – September 12, 2011

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Announcing New ERN Subject Matter eJournal Abstracts & Papers on SSRN In cooperation with the American Economic Association, the Economics Research Network (ERN) is pleased to announce Ten Years & Beyond: Economists Answer NSF’s Call for Long-Term Research Agendas eJournal papers in the SSRN eLibrary. TEN YEARS & [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – September 16, 2011

1. Learning to Love Investment Bubbles: What if Sir Isaac Newton had been a Trendfollower? by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 2. Six Provocations for Big Data by Danah Boyd (Microsoft Research) and Kate Crawford (University of New South Wales (UNSW)) 3. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria [...]
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Weekly Announcements – September 5, 2011

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: The School of Public Policy – University of Calgary Joins ERN Public Policy Centers Research Papers We are pleased to announce The School of Public Policy – University of Calgary has started an ERN Public Policy Centers Research Papers series within the Economics Research Network (ERN). THE SCHOOL [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – September 2, 2011

1. Media Disruption Exacerbates Revolutionary Unrest: Evidence from Mubarak’s Natural Experiment by Navid Hassanpour (Yale University) 2. Understanding the Modern Monetary System by Cullen O. Roche 3. Priority Rules: An Empirical Exploration of First-to-Invent Versus First-to-File by David Abrams (University of Pennsylvania) and R. Polk Wagner (University of Pennsylvania Law School) 4. W[h]ither the Kyoto [...]
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