Category Archives: Top Papers

Weekly Top 5 Papers – July 8, 2011

1. The Tragedy of the Risk-Perception Commons: Culture Conflict, Rationality Conflict, and Climate Change by Dan M. Kahan (Yale University – Law School; Harvard Law School) and Maggie Wittlin (Yale University – Law School) and Ellen Peters (Psychology Department; Decision Research; University of Oregon) and Paul Slovic (Decision Research; University of Oregon – Department of [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – July 1, 2011

1. What is Marriage? by Sherif Girgis (Princeton University Department of Philosophy) and Robert George (Princeton University – Department of Politics) and Ryan T. Anderson (University of Notre Dame Department of Political Science) 2. 22 Problemas Sencillos de Finanzas Resueltos y 530 Respuestas Erróneas (22 Basic Finance Problems and 530 Wrong Answers) (in Spanish) by [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – June 24, 2011

1. Understanding the Effects of Violent Video Games on Violent Crime by Scott Cunningham (Baylor University) and Benjamin Engelstätter (Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) – Information and Communication Technologies Research Group) and Michael R. Ward (University of Texas at Arlington – College of Business Administration – Department of Economics) 2. Therasense v. Becton Dickinson: [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – June 17, 2011

1. ‘I’ve Got Nothing to Hide’ and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy by Daniel J. Solove (George Washington University Law School) 2. Less than Picture Perfect: The Legal Relationship between Photographers’ Rights and Law Enforcement by Morgan Leigh Manning (University of Tennessee, Knoxville – College of Law) 3. Divine Operating System by Glenn Harlan Reynolds (University [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – June 10, 2011

1. ‘I’ve Got Nothing to Hide’ and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy by Daniel J. Solove (George Washington University Law School) 2. Case Closed by Robert A. Haugen (Haugen Custom Financial Systems) and Nardin L. Baker (SSIA) 3. Less than Picture Perfect: The Legal Relationship between Photographers’ Rights and Law Enforcement by Morgan Leigh Manning (University [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – June 3, 2011

1. Bitcoin: An Innovative Alternative Digital Currency by Reuben Grinberg (Yale Law School) 2. The Future Has Thicker Tails than the Past: Model Error as Branching Counterfactuals by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NYU-Poly) 3. Persecution Perpetuated: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany by Nico Voigtländer (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) – Anderson [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 27, 2011

1. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 2. Naturalized Jurisprudence and American Legal Realism Revisited by Brian Leiter (University of Chicago Law School) 3. How Much Better are the Most Prestigious Journals? The Statistics of Academic Publication by William H. Starbuck (New York University (NYU) – Department [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 20, 2011

1. Is Portfolio Theory Harming Your Portfolio? by Scott Vincent (Green River Asset Management) 2. Why Do Humans Reason? Arguments for an Argumentative Theory by Hugo Mercier (University of Pennsylvania) and Dan Sperber 3. Becoming a Legal Scholar by Samuel Buell (Duke University School of Law) 4. The Freewheelin’ Judiciary: A Bob Dylan Anthology by [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 13, 2011

1. Keynote Address – Identifying and Managing Systemic Risk: An Assessment of Our Progress by Steven L. Schwarcz (Duke University – School of Law) 2. Why Do Humans Reason? Arguments for an Argumentative Theory by Hugo Mercier (University of Pennsylvania) and Dan Sperber 3. Book Review: Stephen Hopgood, ‘Keepers of the Flame: Understanding Amnesty International’ [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 6, 2011

1. Why Do Humans Reason? Arguments for an Argumentative Theory by Hugo Mercier (University of Pennsylvania) and Dan Sperber 2. Market Risk Premium Used in 56 Countries in 2011: A Survey with 6,014 Answers by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) and Javier Aguirreamalloa and Luis Corres Avendaño (IESE) 3. What is [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – April 29, 2011

1. Market Risk Premium Used in 56 Countries in 2011: A Survey with 6,014 Answers by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) and Javier Aguirreamalloa and Luis Corres Avendaño (IESE) 2. Bitcoin: An Innovative Alternative Digital Currency by Reuben Grinberg (Yale Law School) 3. Reevaluating Standardized Insurance Policies by Daniel Schwarcz (University [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – April 22, 2011

1. Greek Debt – The Endgame Scenarios by Lee C. Buchheit (Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP – New York Office) and G. Mitu Gulati (Duke University – School of Law) 2. What is Marriage? by Sherif Girgis (Princeton University Department of Philosophy) and Robert George (Princeton University – Department of Politics) and Ryan T. [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – April 15, 2011

1. US Market Risk Premium Used in 2011 by Professors, Analysts and Companies: A Survey with 5.731 Answers by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) and Javier Aguirreamalloa and Luis Corres Avendaño (IESE) 2. Fight the Fed Model: The Relationship Between Stock Market Yields, Bond Market Yields, and Future Returns by Clifford [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – April 8, 2011

1. Five Takes on McDonald v. Chicago by Brannon P. Denning (Cumberland School of Law) and Glenn Harlan Reynolds (University of Tennessee College of Law) 2. Mere Quibbles: Bagus and Howden’s Critique of The Theory of Free Banking by George Selgin (University of Georgia) 3. What is Marriage? by Sherif Girgis (Princeton University Department of [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – April 1, 2011

1. What is Marriage? by Sherif Girgis (Princeton University Department of Philosophy) and Robert George (Princeton University – Department of Politics) and Ryan T. Anderson (University of Notre Dame Department of Political Science) 2. The Cognitive Interview Method of Conducting Police Interviews: Eliciting Extensive Information and Promoting Therapeutic Jurisprudence by Ronald Philip Fisher (Florida International [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – March 25, 2011

1. A Dysfunctional Role of High Frequency Trading in Electronic Markets by Robert A. Jarrow (Cornell University – Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management ) and Philip Protter (affiliation not provided to SSRN) 2. What is Marriage? by Sherif Girgis (Princeton University Department of Philosophy) and Robert George (Princeton University – Department of Politics) [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – March 18, 2011

1. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 2. The Microstructure of the ‘Flash Crash’: Flow Toxicity, Liquidity Crashes and the Probability of Informed Trading by David Easley (Cornell University – Department of Economics) and Marcos Mailoc Lopez de Prado (Tudor Investment Corp.; RCC at Harvard University) and [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – March 11, 2011

1. Facts and Questions About the Crisis in Spain (in Spanish) by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) 2. The Irish Economy: Three Strikes and You’re Out? by Constantin Gurdgiev (Trinity College, Dublin) and Brian M. Lucey (Trinity College, Dublin – School of Business; University of Dublin – Institute for International Integration [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – March 4, 2011

1. Binomial Options Pricing Has No Closed-Form Solution by Evangelos Georgiadis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)) 2. Madoff’s Dirty Money by Linus Wilson (University of Louisiana at Lafayette – College of Business Administration) 3. Equity Risk Premiums (ERP): Determinants, Estimation and Implications – The 2011 Edition by Aswath Damodaran (New York University – Stern School [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – February 18, 2011

1. Shareholder Value Creators in the S&P 500: 1991-2010 by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) and Javier Aguirreamalloa (affiliation not provided to SSRN) and Luis Corres Avendaño (IESE) 2. Information for Submitting Articles to Law Reviews & Journals by Allen Rostron (University of Missouri at Kansas City – School of Law) [...]
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