Weekly Top 5 Papers – September 14, 2012

1. Valuing Companies by Cash Flow Discounting: Fundamental Relationships and Unnecessary Complications
by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School)

2. The Cite Stuff: Inventing a Better Law Faculty Relevance Measure
by James Phillips (University of California, Berkeley – School of Law) and John Yoo (Dept. of Jurisprudence & Social Policy University of California at Berkeley School of Law)

3. Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance in the U.S.: Perceptions, Facts and Challenges
by Steven Kaplan (University of Chicago – Booth School of Business)

4. Global Value: Building Trading Models with the 10 Year CAPE
by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management)

5. Why Do Good People Sometimes Do Bad Things?: 52 Reflections on Ethics at Work
by M. Kaptein (Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) – Rotterdam School of Management (RSM))