Category Archives: Top Papers

Weekly Top 5 Papers – January 4, 2013

1. Top Marginal Effective Tax Rates by State and by Source of Income, 2012 Tax Law vs. 2013 Scheduled Tax Law by Gerald Prante (Lynchburg College, School of Business and Economics) and Austin John (Lynchburg College, School of Business and Economics) 2. ‘I’ve Got Nothing to Hide’ and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy by Daniel Solove [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – December 28, 2012

1. Multiple Victim Public Shootings, Bombings, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handgun Laws: Contrasting Private and Public Law Enforcement by John Lott (University of Maryland Foundation) and William Landes (University of Chicago Law School) 2. Top Marginal Effective Tax Rates by State and by Source of Income, 2012 Tax Law vs. 2013 Scheduled Tax Law by Gerald [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – December 21, 2012

1. Multiple Victim Public Shootings, Bombings, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handgun Laws: Contrasting Private and Public Law Enforcement by John Lott (University of Maryland Foundation) and William Landes (University of Chicago Law School) 2. Infringement Nation: Copyright Reform and the Law/Norm Gap by John Tehranian (Southwestern Law School) 3. The Golden Dilemma by Claude Erb (TR) [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – December 14, 2012

1. Can’t We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World by Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Department of Economics) and James A. Robinson (Harvard University – Department of Government) and Thierry Verdier (Paris School of Economics (PSE)) 2. Cloud Computing in Higher Education and Research Institutions [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – December 7, 2012

1. Top Marginal Effective Tax Rates by State and by Source of Income, 2012 Tax Law vs. 2013 Scheduled Tax Law by Gerald T. Prante (Lynchburg College, School of Business and Economics) and Austin John (Lynchburg College, School of Business and Economics) 2. Valoracion de una Expropiacion: YPF y Repsol en Argentina (Valuation of an [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – November 30, 2012

1. Piracy and Movie Revenues: Evidence from Megaupload by Christian Peukert (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich) and Jörg Claussen (Copenhagen Business School – Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics) 2. Valuation of an Expropriated Company: The Case of YPF and Repsol in Argentina by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) 3. A Signaling Theory of [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – November 23, 2012

1. Infringement Nation: Copyright Reform and the Law/Norm Gap by John Tehranian (Southwestern Law School) 2. 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) 3. Does Academic Research Destroy Stock Return [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – November 16, 2012

1. Does Academic Research Destroy Stock Return Predictability? by R. David McLean (University of Alberta – Department of Finance and Management Science) and Jeffrey Pontiff (Boston College – Department of Finance) 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 – November 9, 2012

1. Social Mood, Stock Market Performance and U.S. Presidential Elections: A Socionomic Perspective on Voting Results by Robert R. Prechter Jr. (Socionomics Institute) and Deepak Goel (Socionomics Institute) and Wayne D. Parker (Emory University School of Medicine) and Matthew Lampert (University of Cambridge) 2. Does Academic Research Destroy Stock Return Predictability? by R. David McLean [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – November 2, 2012

1. The Assumptions and Math Behind WACC and APV Calculations by Richard Stanton (University of California, Berkeley – Finance Group) and Mark Seasholes (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)) 2. Measuring Baumol and Bowen Effects in Public Research Universities by Robert Martin and R. Hill (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge – Department of [...]
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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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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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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 Top 5 Papers – September 28, 2012

1. An Efficient Frontier for Retirement Income by Wade Pfau (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)) 2. The Charter and the Law of Work: A Beginner’s Guide by David Doorey (York University) 3. The Golden Dilemma by Claude Erb and Campbell Harvey (Duke University – Fuqua School of Business) 4. Why Do Good People [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – September 21, 2012

1. Software Patents and the Return of Functional Claiming by Mark Lemley (Stanford Law 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. [...]
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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 [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – September 7, 2012

1. Global Value: Building Trading Models with the 10 Year CAPE by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 2. Private Equity Management Fee Conversions by Gregg Polsky (University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill – School of Law) 3. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 4. [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – August 31, 2012

1. Global Value: Building Trading Models with the 10 Year CAPE by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 2. National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius: Five Takes by Glenn Reynolds (University of Tennessee College of Law) and Brannon Denning (Samford University – Cumberland School of Law) 3. The Trend is Our Friend: Risk Parity, [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – August 24, 2012

1. National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius: Five Takes by Glenn Reynolds (University of Tennessee College of Law) and Brannon Denning (Samford University – Cumberland School of Law) 2. Global Value: Building Trading Models with the 10 Year CAPE by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 3. Top Ten Myths of Medicare by Richard [...]
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