Category Archives: Top Papers

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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Weekly Top 5 Papers – February 11, 2011

1. Taking Note of Notes: Student Legal Scholarship in Theory and Practice by Andrew Yaphe (Stanford 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. Female Ritual Healing [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – February 4, 2011

1. Naming Baby: The Constitutional Dimensions of Parental Naming Rights by Carlton F. W. Larson (University of California, Davis – School of Law) 2. Top 10 Law School Home Pages of 2010 by Jason Eiseman (Yale University) and Roger V. Skalbeck (Georgetown University Law Center) 3. What is Marriage? by Sherif Girgis (Princeton University Department [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – January 28, 2011

1. Top 10 Law School Home Pages of 2010 by Jason Eiseman (Yale University) and Roger V. Skalbeck (Georgetown University Law Center) 2. Ranking of the Mutual Fund Industry in Spain: 1991-2010 (Ranking de Gestoras de Fondos de Inversión) (In Spanish) by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) and Javier Aguirreamalloa (affiliation [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – January 21, 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. Shareholder Return and Value Creation of 125 Spanish Companies in 2010 (Rentabilidad y Creación de Valor de 125 Empresas Españolas en [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – January 14, 2011

1. IBEX 35: 1991-2010 – Value Creation and Return by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) and Javier Aguirreamalloa (affiliation not provided to SSRN) and Luis Corres Avendaño (IESE) 2. What is Marriage? by Sherif Girgis (Princeton University Department of Philosophy) and Robert George (Princeton University – Department of Politics) and Ryan [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – January 7, 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. A Replication of the Procedures from Bem (2010, Study 8) and a Failure to Replicate the Same Results by Jeff Galak [...]
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