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ALA Midwinter ’12

By Gregg | Published: January 18, 2012
I am headed to the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting in Dallas this weekend. There will be thousands of library and information media industry leaders sharing their views and exhibiting their companies (#ALAMW12). If you are attending and want to get together to talk about SSRN or scholarly communications in general, please let me know. Safe Travels, [...]
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Weekly Announcements – October 17, 2011

By Diane | Published: October 23, 2011
Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Drake University Joins Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies We are pleased to announce Drake University Law School has started a Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies series, within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN). DRAKE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL LEGAL STUDIES RESEARCH PAPER SERIES SERIES View Papers: [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – October 21, 2011

By Diane | Published: October 23, 2011
1. Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 Tax Plan by Edward D. Kleinbard (USC Gould School of Law) 2. Company Valuation Methods: The Most Common Errors in Valuations by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) 3. Six Provocations for Big Data by danah boyd (Microsoft Research) and Kate Crawford (University of New South Wales (UNSW)) [...]
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Weekly Announcements – October 10, 2011

By Diane | Published: October 14, 2011
Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Announcing the American Finance Association 2012 Meetings Abstracting Journal In cooperation with the American Finance Association (AFA), the Financial Economics Network (FEN) is pleased to announce the AFA 2012 Chicago Meetings. This abstracting eJournal is available to all subscribers at no charge and contains abstracts of the conference [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – October 7, 2011

By Diane | Published: October 7, 2011
1. Exact Fit for a Mixture of Two Gaussians – The EF3M Algorithm by Marcos M. Lopez de Prado (Tudor Investment Corp.) 2. Ten Years and Beyond: Economists Answer NSF’s Call for Long-Term Research Agendas (Compendium) by Charles L. Schultze (Brookings Institution) and Daniel H. Newlon (American Economic Association) 3. Six Provocations for Big Data [...]
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JCDL 2011 & How DR’s Really Work

By Gregg | Published: June 16, 2011
This week I’m attending the JCDL 2011 (ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries) in Ottawa, Canada and presenting during the Thinking Back and Looking Forward session of the Disciplinary Repositories Workshop.  This year’s theme is “Digital Libraries: Bringing Together Scholars, Scholarship and Research Data” and our workshop will give anyone the chance to see how [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – March 5, 2010

By Diane | Published: March 5, 2010
Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending March 5, 2010: 1. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 2. Cultural Cognition of Scientific Consensus by Dan M. Kahan (Yale University – Law School) and Hank Jenkins-Smith (University of Oklahoma) and [...]
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Weekly Announcements – February 16, 2010

By Diane | Published: February 19, 2010
Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Announcing New ERN Partners in Publishing Journal We are pleased to announce that Journal of Economics, Finance & Administrative Science has joined our Partners in Publishing Journals within the Economics Research Network (ERN). JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, FINANCE & ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/J-Econ-Finance-Admin-Science.html Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=J-Econ-Finance-Admin-Science The Journal of [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – January 22, 2010

By Diane | Published: January 25, 2010
Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending January 22, 2010: 1. Conspiracy Theories by Cass R. Sunstein (Harvard University – Harvard Law School) and Adrian Vermeule (Harvard University – Harvard Law School) 2. Constraining Dominant Shareholders’ Self-Dealing: The Legal Framework in France, Germany, and Italy by Pierre-Henri [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – June 19, 2009

By Gregg | Published: June 19, 2009
Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending June 19, 2009: 1. Betas Used by Companies and Professors in Europe: A Survey by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) and Vicente J. Bermejo (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) 2. A Quantitative Approach to [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – June 12, 2009

By Gregg | Published: June 12, 2009
Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending June 12, 2009: 1. How to Read a Legal Opinion: A Guide for New Law Students by Orin S. Kerr (George Washington University – Law School) 2. Regulating Bankers’ Pay by Lucian A. Bebchuk (Harvard University – Harvard Law School; [...]
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