Monthly Archives: March 2012

Weekly Announcements – March 26, 2012

By Diane | Published: March 30, 2012
Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Georgetown University Joins MRN Business School Research Papers We are pleased to announce Georgetown University McDonough School of Business has started a MRN Business School Research Papers series within the Management Research Network (MRN). GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MCDONOUGH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH PAPER SERIES View Abstracts: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Georgetown-U-McDonough-Business.html Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=Georgetown-U-McDonough-Business [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – March 30, 2012

By Diane | Published: March 30, 2012
1. There’s No There There: Low Tax Rates and Economic Growth by Filip Spagnoli (National Bank of Belgium) 2. The Law Review Games by Miriam Cherry (Saint Louis University – School of Law) and Paul Secunda (Marquette University – Law School) 3. Equity Risk Premiums (ERP): Determinants, Estimation and Implications – the 2012 Edition by [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – March 23, 2012

By Diane | Published: March 23, 2012
1. 28 Problemas Sencillos De Finanzas Resueltos Y 950 Respuestas Erróneas (28 Basic Finance Problems and 950 Wrong Answers) (in Spanish) by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) 2. La Insolvencia De Lehman Brothers: Sobre Su Previsibilidad (About the Unexpected Fall of Lehman Brothers) (in Spanish) by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – March 16, 2012

By Diane | Published: March 16, 2012
1. Market Timing with Moving Averages by Paskalis Glabadanidis (University of Adelaide Business School) 2. Social Mood, Stock Market Performance and U.S. Presidential Elections: A Socionomic Perspective on Voting Results by Robert Prechter (Socionomics Institute) and Deepak Goel (Socionomics Institute) and Wayne Parker (Emory University School of Medicine) and Matthew Lampert (University of Cambridge) 3. [...]
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Happening: SPARC and UKSG

By Gregg | Published: March 12, 2012
I’m at the  SPARC 2012 Open Access Meeting (#sparc2012) in Kansas City this week where John Willbanks (Kauffman Foundation, Creative Commons) is the keynote along with many others -  discussing how to expand the dissemination of scholarly research and open access. Later this month, I’ll present at the UKSG Annual Conference (#uksglive) in Glasgow. In it’s 35th [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – March 9, 2012

By Diane | Published: March 9, 2012
1. Social Mood, Stock Market Performance and U.S. Presidential Elections: A Socionomic Perspective on Voting Results by Robert Prechter (Socionomics Institute) and Deepak Goel (Socionomics Institute) and Wayne Parker (Emory University School of Medicine) and Matthew Lampert (University of Cambridge) 2. The Rise of Contingent Fee Representation in Patent Litigation by David Schwartz (Chicago-Kent College [...]
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SSRN Q&A: John Peters (GSE Research)

By Gregg | Published: March 8, 2012
Sustainability is one of the hottest areas of scholarly research, and SSRN’s newest research network. GSE Research sponsors our Sustainability Research Policy Network. I’ve known its founder John Peters for a few years and recently caught up with him to ask a few questions about the what, how, and why of sustainability and working with SSRN. Q: [...]
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Weekly Announcements – February 27, 2012

By Diane | Published: March 2, 2012
Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Announcing 2 New Legal Studies Research Paper Series We are pleased to announce Southampton Law School, and Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law have each started a Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies series within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN). SOUTHAMPTON LAW SCHOOL LEGAL STUDIES [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – March 2, 2012

By Diane | Published: March 2, 2012
1. Law Deans in Jail by Morgan Cloud (Emory University School of Law) and George Shepherd (Emory University School of Law) 2. Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information Quality by Urs Gasser (Harvard University – Berkman Center for Internet & Society) and Sandra Cortesi (Harvard University – Berkman Center for Internet & Society) [...]
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