Monthly Archives: May 2012

Who is Who?

I just got to Washington, DC for tomorrow’s Society for Scholarly Publishing’s Workshop (#SSP2012).  Euan Adie (Digital Science), Ellen Rotenberg (Thomson Reuters), Laurel Haak (ORCID) and I will be discussing Applying Unique Identifiers to Understand and Establish Influence. SSP’s theme this year is “Social, Mobile, Agile, Global: Are You Ready?” A very broad topic that [...]
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Weekly Announcements – May 21, 2012

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Announcing Expansion of 2 ERN Econometrics: Applied Econometric Modeling eJournals We are pleased to announce the expansion of Economics Research Network (ERN) Econometrics: Applied Econometric Modeling in Financial Economics eJournal, and Econometrics: Applied Econometric Modeling in Microeconomics eJournal into the following eJournals: ECONOMETRICS: APPLIED ECONOMETRIC MODELING IN FINANCIAL [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 25, 2012

1. What is Marriage? by Sherif Girgis (Princeton University Department of Philosophy) and Robert George (Princeton University – Department of Politics) and Ryan Anderson (University of Notre Dame Department of Political Science) 2. The Harmful Side Effects of Drug Prohibition by Randy Barnett (Georgetown University Law Center) 3. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation [...]
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Weekly Announcements – May 14, 2012

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (CONSOB) Joins Finance Research Centers Papers We are pleased to announce Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (CONSOB) has started a Finance Research Centers Papers series within the Financial Economics Network (FEN). COMMISSIONE NAZIONALE PER LE SOCIETÀ E [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 18, 2012

1. What is Marriage? by Sherif Girgis (Princeton University Department of Philosophy) and Robert George (Princeton University – Department of Politics) and Ryan Anderson (University of Notre Dame Department of Political Science) 2. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 3. The Devil in HML’s Details by Clifford [...]
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Alternative is the New Grey

Jason Priem asked me to give a keynote at the altmetrics12 workshop at Northwestern on 21 June. Unfortunately, the timing of #altmetrics12 isn’t very convenient. I was supposed to be on a plane on my way to #ALA12 in Anaheim. But, I think metrics are important and have written about what SSRN is doing in [...]
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Weekly Announcements – May 7, 2012

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Review of Environment, Energy & Economics (Re3) Joins ERN Partners in Publishing Journals We are pleased to announce Review of Environment, Energy & Economics (Re3) has joined our ERN Partners in Publishing Journals within the Economics Research Network (ERN). REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY & ECONOMICS (Re3) View Abstracts: [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 11, 2012

1. What is Marriage? by Sherif Girgis (Princeton University Department of Philosophy) and Robert George (Princeton University – Department of Politics) and Ryan Anderson (University of Notre Dame Department of Political Science) 2. Ten Badly Explained Topics in Most Corporate Finance Books by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) 3. Functional MRI [...]
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Weekly Announcements – April 30, 2012

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Property & Environment Research Center (PERC) Joins ERN Public Policy Centers Research Papers We are pleased to announce Property & Environment Research Center (PERC) has started an ERN Public Policy Centers Research Papers series within the Economics Research Network (ERN). PROPERTY & ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER (PERC) RESEARCH PAPER [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 4, 2012

1. Ten Badly Explained Topics in Most Corporate Finance Books by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) 2. Conspiracy Theories by Cass Sunstein (Harvard Law School) and Adrian Vermeule (Harvard Law School) 3. Value Investing: Investing for Grown Ups? by Aswath Damodaran (New York University – Stern School of Business) 4. A [...]
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