Monthly Archives: January 2012

Weekly Top 5 Papers – January 27, 2012

1. Reading About the Financial Crisis: A 21-Book Review by Andrew Lo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Sloan School of Management) 2. Getting up to Speed on the Financial Crisis: A One-Weekend-Reader’s Guide by Gary Gorton (Yale School of Management) and Andrew Metrick (Yale School of Management) 3. Investor Information Demand: Evidence from Google [...]
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Weekly Announcements – January 16, 2012

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: A Short Tribute to Larry Ribstein I am personally and professionally saddened at the sudden passing of my friend, Larry E. Ribstein, Mildred van Voorhis Jones Professor at the University of Illinois College of Law, a pre-eminent scholar in the field of LLCs and other unincorporated business associations, [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – January 20, 2012

1. 100 Questions on Finance by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) 2. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 3. Don’t Break the Internet by Mark Lemley (Stanford Law School) and David Levine (Elon University School of Law ) and David Post (Temple University [...]
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ALA Midwinter ’12

I am headed to the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting in Dallas this weekend. There will be thousands of library and information media industry leaders sharing their views and exhibiting their companies (#ALAMW12). If you are attending and want to get together to talk about SSRN or scholarly communications in general, please let me know. Safe Travels, [...]
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Weekly Announcements – January 9, 2012

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Western New England University Upgrades Its Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies Series We are pleased to announce Western New England University School of Law has upgraded its basic series to a full series, within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN), Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies. [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – January 13, 2012

1. Adaptive Markets and the New World Order by Andrew Lo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Sloan School of Management) 2. My Life in Finance by Eugene Fama (University of Chicago – Booth School of Business (Finance Authors)) 3. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 4. [...]
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50 Million Downloads

SSRN delivered its 50,000,000 full-text download! On 12/26/11 a major milestone occurred when Jan Bena, UBC Professor downloaded “Economic Nationalism in Mergers & Acquisitions“ by Isil Erel and Serdar Dinc. It was the 50 millionth full text PDF delivered from the SSRN eLibrary. Congratulate Jan if you see him because he will receive free subscriptions to all the SSRN [...]
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Weekly Announcements – January 6, 2012

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: UNSW Upgrades to Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies Series We are pleased to announce that University of New South Wales Faculty of Law has upgraded from a Partners in Publishing relationship to a full series within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN), Law School Research Papers – [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – January 6, 2012

1. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 2. Austerity and Anarchy: Budget Cuts and Social Unrest in Europe, 1919-2008 by Jacopo Ponticelli (Universitat Pompeu Fabra – Economics Department) and Hans-Joachim Voth (Economics Department – UPF and CREI) 3. Kyoto and the COPs: Lessons Learned and Looking Ahead [...]
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