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St. Thomas University Joins Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies Series

ST. THOMAS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW LEGAL STUDIES RESEARCH PAPER SERIES
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The St. Thomas University School of Law Legal Research Paper Series focuses on interdisciplinary legal scholarship from members of the Law Faculty. Located in Miami Gardens, Florida, St. Thomas University is a Catholic University that emphasizes lifelong learning and scholarship, under Catholic auspices. The published eJournal will include Faculty papers selected for publication, including but not limited to works on international law, human rights, tax law, constitutional law, health law, education law, criminal law, gender studies, equal rights, canon law, and environmental law.

1. The Perfect Crime
by Brian Kalt (Michigan State University College of Law)

2. Engineering an Orderly Greek Debt Restructuring
by G. Gulati (Duke University – School of Law) and Jeromin Zettelmeyer (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD))

3. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation
by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management)

4. Getting up to Speed on the Financial Crisis: A One-Weekend-Reader’s Guide
by Gary Gorton (Yale School of Management) and Andrew Metrick (Yale School of Management)

5. Reading About the Financial Crisis: A 21-Book Review
by Andrew Lo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Sloan School of Management)

1. Reading About the Financial Crisis: A 21-Book Review
by Andrew Lo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Sloan School of Management)

2. Getting up to Speed on the Financial Crisis: A One-Weekend-Reader’s Guide
by Gary Gorton (Yale School of Management) and Andrew Metrick (Yale School of Management)

3. Investor Information Demand: Evidence from Google Searches Around Earnings Announcements
by Darren Roulstone (Ohio State University (OSU) – Fisher College of Business) and Michael Drake (Brigham Young University – Marriott School) and Jacob Thornock (University of Washington – Michael G. Foster School of Business)

4. Race, Attorney Influence, and Bankruptcy Chapter Choice
by Jean Braucher (University of Arizona – James E. Rogers College of Law) and Dov Cohen (University of Illinois) and Robert Lawless (University of Illinois College of Law)

5. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation
by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management)

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:

A Short Tribute to Larry Ribstein

I am personally and professionally saddened at the sudden passing of my friend, Larry E. Ribstein, Mildred van Voorhis Jones Professor at the University of Illinois College of Law, a pre-eminent scholar in the field of LLCs and other unincorporated business associations, and the editor of our Corporate Law: Partnerships and Unincorporated Business Entities eJournal. We will miss his prodigious scholarship, his unflagging energy, his perceptive and provocative commentary on many subjects, and his iconoclastic style. Our deepest sympathies go out to his family, colleagues, and friends.

I am grateful that Professor Jeffrey M. Lipshaw, of Suffolk Law School, Larry’s co-author on the casebook, Unincorporated Business Entities, has agreed to take over as the editor of Larry’s journal.

Professor Lipshaw has proposed that we rename the journal as Corporate Law: LLCs, Close Corporations, Partnerships, and Other Private Enterprises. I think Larry would have approved this new name, which emphasizes LLCs and closely held firms more generally. He would be the first to tell you that no one ought to form a partnership any more, and indeed, few people do.

Please see below for the new journal title and description, and information on how to subscribe.

Bernie Black
Managing Editor, SSRN

CORPORATE LAW: LLCs, CLOSE CORPORATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS, & OTHER PRIVATE ENTERPRISES eJOURNAL
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Editor: Jeffrey M. Lipshaw, Associate Professor, Suffolk University Law School

Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts related to LLCs, close corporations, partnerships, and other private enterprises. This includes the law, economics, history and policy of closely-held corporations and non-corporate firms, including partnerships, limited liability companies, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, joint ventures, and similar entities both in the US and around the world. Specific topics include private law matters such as governance, fiduciary duties, formation, litigation, arbitration, choice of law, exit, dissolution, transfer, creditors’ rights, and limited liability. They also include public law matters such as bankruptcy, employment discrimination, securities regulation, competition law, and professional regulation. Articles may also focus on types of businesses or other relationships that commonly organize as limited liability companies, close corporations, partnerships or other unincorporated business entities, including venture capital, professional services, real estate, finance, family firms, domestic relationships and public-private enterprises.

Announcing 24th Australasian Finance & Banking Conference 2011 Abstracting eJournal on SSRN

In cooperation with the Institute of Global Finance at the University of New South Wales, the Financial Economics Network (FEN) is pleased to announce the 24th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference (AFBC) 2011 Abstracting eJournal. This abstracting eJournal is available to all subscribers at no charge and contains abstracts of the meeting papers with links to the full text in the SSRN eLibrary.

The AFBC is an annual event organized by the School of Banking and Finance in conjunction with the Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales. The event aims to promote discussion and interaction among researchers, academics, and practitioners interested in finance and banking fields, and draws a large crowd of both international and Australian participants to the Shangri-La Hotel in Sydney every December. The conference runs over three days and includes plenary sessions with distinguished keynote speakers, break-out sessions, social events, a Business Forum, a special issue of the Journal of Banking and Finance, a session for PhD students, and other initiatives such as the Networking Women in Finance session that discusses gender initiatives in the field. This abstracting eJournal provides a data warehouse for all abstracts and papers presented at the Annual Conference. Abstracts of the papers will also be published in subject-specific eJournals within FEN and, where appropriate, in the eJournals of our sister networks.

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National Research University Higher School of Economics Joins Economics Departments Research Papers

We are pleased to announce the National Research University Higher School of Economics has started an Economics Departments Research Papers series within the Economics Research Network (ERN).

NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS RESEARCH PAPER SERIES
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The National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) was established in 1992 with the purpose to promote economic and social reforms in Russia through education of a new generation of researchers and practitioners, production and dissemination of modern economic knowledge among Russian business and government. Nowadays the HSE is an absolute leader in the academic fields of economics among Russian universities. The strategic goal is to make the HSE the foremost centre for research and education, analysis, consulting and design in the field of social and economic science that would join the line of leading global research universities. Higher School of Economics Research Paper Series were established to provide our faculty with additional communication means with their colleagues, providing accessible way to distribute and discuss their research within the global research community.

1. 100 Questions on Finance
by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School)

2. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation
by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management)

3. Don’t Break the Internet
by Mark Lemley (Stanford Law School) and David Levine (Elon University School of Law ) and David Post (Temple University School of Law)

4. Reading About the Financial Crisis: A 21-Book Review
by Andrew Lo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Sloan School of Management)

5. Encryption and Globalization
by Peter Swire (Moritz College of Law of the Ohio State University) and Kenesa Ahmad

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,

Gregg

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:

Western New England University Upgrades Its Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies Series

We are pleased to announce Western New England University School of Law has upgraded its basic series to a full series, within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN), Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies.

WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW LEGAL STUDIES RESEARCH PAPER SERIES
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The Western New England University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series journal contains abstracts and research papers of the Western New England University School of Law faculty. Founded in 1919 as part of the Springfield Division of Northeastern University and incorporated as part of Western New England University in 1951, the School of Law has grown and matured into an institution known for providing a legal education that emphasizes a blending of theoretical and practical learning.

Announcing 4 New MRN Organizational Behavior Subject Matter eJournals

We are pleased to announce four new MRN Organizational Behavior Research Network (ORG) Subject Matter eJournals:
Innovation & Organizational Behavior eJournal;
Interorganizational Networks & Organizational Behavior eJournal;
Public Sector Strategy & Organizational Behavior eJournal; and
Strategy & Organizational Behavior eJournal.

INNOVATION & ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR eJOURNAL
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Editor: David C. Logan (University of Southern California – Marshall School of Business, and CultureSync)

Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts that focus on innovation and organizational behavior. The research in the eJournal includes both historical and contemporary research pertaining to innovation and organizational behavior. Submitted papers may be conceptual or empirical in nature and may address any of the phases of the innovation process, including development, adoption, resistance, implementation, and diffusion. The purpose of the eJournal is to enhance understanding of how and why individuals acting in organizations influence innovation.

INTERORGANIZATIONAL NETWORKS & ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR eJOURNAL
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Editor: David C. Logan (University of Southern California – Marshall School of Business, and CultureSync)

Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts that focus on interorganizational networks and organizational behavior. Submitted papers may be conceptual or empirical in nature. The purpose of this eJournal is to enhance understanding of the impact of interorganizational network structures on the individuals who work within those structures as well as the consequences of the actions taken by those individuals on organizational outcomes and effectiveness. Interorganizational networks can support or constrain individual behavior in organizations and may be viewed from multiple perspectives including, but not limited to, theories related to resource dependence and access, trust, power and control, and signaling.

PUBLIC SECTOR STRATEGY & ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR eJOURNAL
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Editor: David C. Logan (University of Southern California – Marshall School of Business, and CultureSync)

Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts that focus on strategy in relation to organizational behavior within the public sector, including nonprofit organizations, governments and governmental agencies, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, modes of strategy, execution of strategy, and evaluation of the results of strategic actions.

STRATEGY & ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR eJOURNAL
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Editor: David C. Logan (University of Southern California – Marshall School of Business, and CultureSync)

Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts that focus on competitive strategy in relation to organizational behavior within the for-profit sector.

NBER Announces Free Access to Papers Older than Three Years

SSRN partners with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) to provide access to their research and we are happy to share the NBER’s recent announcement below.

Effective January 1, 2012, all NBER working papers that were distributed prior to a three year “moving wall” are available for open access on the NBER website. They are also available at no charge through SSRN.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact UserSupport@SSRN.com.

1. Adaptive Markets and the New World Order
by Andrew Lo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Sloan School of Management)

2. My Life in Finance
by Eugene Fama (University of Chicago – Booth School of Business (Finance Authors))

3. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation
by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management)

4. Measuring Rates of Return for Lobbying Expenditures: An Empirical Analysis under the American Jobs Creation Act
by Raquel Alexander (University of Kansas – School of Business) and Stephen Mazza (University of Kansas – School of Law) and Susan Scholz (University of Kansas – Accounting and Information Systems Area)

5. The Promise and Success of Lab-Field Generalizability in Experimental Economics: A Critical Reply to Levitt and List
by Colin Camerer (California Institute of Technology – Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences)

SSRN delivered its 50,000,000 full-text download!

On 12/26/11 a major milestone occurred when Jan Bena, UBC Professor downloaded “Economic Nationalism in Mergers & Acquisitions“ by Isil Erel and Serdar Dinc. It was the 50 millionth full text PDF delivered from the SSRN eLibrary. Congratulate Jan if you see him because he will receive free subscriptions to all the SSRN eJournals for life!

The SSRN eLibrary currently has 375,000 paper abstracts from over 175,000 authors and has received 60,000 new submissions during the year. SSRN’s Citereader project with ITX Corp. has extracted 7.4 million references, 4.7 million citations, and 7.7 million footnotes from our 306,000 full text papers.

SSRN’s CEO, Gregg Gordon is headed to the AFA 2012 Chicago Meeting and will congratulate Jan personally. Thank you all for making this possible.

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:

UNSW Upgrades to Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies Series

We are pleased to announce that University of New South Wales Faculty of Law has upgraded from a Partners in Publishing relationship to a full series within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN), Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies.

UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES FACULTY OF LAW LEGAL STUDIES RESEARCH PAPER SERIES
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The University of New South Wales Faculty of Law Research Series (UNSWLRS) provides a forum for Faculty members, including academics, visiting fellows and postgraduate researchers to disseminate in-progress research, conference papers, book chapters, government submissions and published peer-reviewed articles. The papers included in the series are equally diverse, with topics ranging from distributed denial of service attacks to taxation, the rule of law to non-government organisations, high seas fisheries and law school mentoring programs.