Monthly Archives: October 2012

Weekly Announcements – October 31, 2012

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Announcing Paris December 2012 Finance Meeting EUROFIDAI – AFFI eJournal on SSRN In cooperation with EUROFIDAI (European Financial Data Institute) and AFFI (French Finance Association), the Financial Economics Network (FEN) is pleased to announce the Paris December 2012 Finance Meeting eJournal. This eJournal is available to all subscribers [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – October 26, 2012

1. The Behavior of Individual Investors by Brad M. Barber (UC Davis) and Terrance Odean (University of California, Berkeley – Haas School of Business) 2. Institutional Investors and Stock Market Volatility by Xavier Gabaix (New York University – Stern School of Business) and Parameswaran Gopikrishnan (Boston University – Center for Polymer Studies) and Vasiliki Plerou [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – October 19, 2012

1. Institutional Investors and Stock Market Volatility by Xavier Gabaix (New York University – Stern School of Business) and Parameswaran Gopikrishnan (Boston University – Center for Polymer Studies) and Vasiliki Plerou (Boston University – Center for Polymer Studies) and H. Eugene Stanley (Boston University – Center for Polymer Studies) 2. The Obama Administration, the Dream [...]
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What does scholarly synergy look like?

A few months ago, Laurel Haak, Executive Director of ORCID, invited me to co-author an article in Science about data sharing and the need to create a web-based, multidisciplinary, collaborative  infrastructure for both sharing and analysis. Standards and Infrastructure for Innovation Data Exchange, which was published on Friday, highlights several key issues we need to [...]
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Weekly Announcements – October 17, 2012

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: FIRN (Financial Research Network) Joins Finance Research Centers Papers We are pleased to announce FIRN (Financial Research Network) has started a Finance Research Centers Papers series within the Financial Economics Network (FEN). FIRN – FINANCIAL RESEARCH NETWORK RESEARCH PAPER SERIES View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/FIRN-RES.html Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=FIRN-RES FIRN – Financial [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – October 12, 2012

1. The Eurozone Debt Crisis — The Options Now by Lee C. Buchheit (Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP – New York Office) and G. Mitu Gulati (Duke University – School of Law) 2. The Halloween Indicator: Everywhere and All the Time by Ben Jacobsen (New Zealand Institute of Advanced Study) and Cherry Yi Zhang [...]
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reconnect12: Gaming Undermines the Occupation

I’m on my way to Montreal, Canada for @OccupyImpact, CASRAI’s 1st Annual International Conference. During my session, Gaming Undermines the Occupation, with Jennifer Lin from PLoS, we will discuss the issues related to working with large and growing amounts of content. There will be keynotes by Maryse Lassonde, Dr. Claire Donovan and Cameron Neylon, and [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – October 5, 2012

1. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 2. Disciplining Your Theorizing: Three Frank Questions by Daniel B. Klein (George Mason University – Department of Economics) 3. Why Do Good People Sometimes Do Bad Things?: 52 Reflections on Ethics at Work by M. Kaptein (Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) [...]
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Weekly Announcements – October 3, 2012

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Joins Law Research Centers Papers We are pleased to announce Max Planck Institute for European Legal History has started a Law Research Centers Papers series within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN). MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EUROPEAN LEGAL HISTORY RESEARCH PAPER SERIES [...]
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