The SSRN Blog |

Weekly Announcements – December 9, 2011

By Diane | Published: December 9, 2011

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:

University of Eastern Finland Joins Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies

We are pleased to announce the University of Eastern Finland has started a Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies series, within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN).

UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND DEPARTMENT OF LAW LEGAL STUDIES RESEARCH PAPER SERIES
View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/U-Eastern-Finland-LEG.html

The University of Eastern Finland (UEF) Department of Law is an active continuously developing academic community, known for its interdisciplinary research profile and active research cooperation. The focus areas for developing the Department’s research activities include transnational law (especially Russian and European Law), empirical legal studies and multidisciplinary environmental law. The University of Eastern Finland Department of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series covers research papers from all subject areas by members of the UEF Department of Law (and doctoral students and visiting scholars).

Posted in Recent Announcements | Tagged Archives of Internal Medicine, Education, Law, Law school, Social Science Research Network, Tax, United States, University of Eastern Finland | Leave a comment

Weekly Top 5 Papers – December 9, 2011

By Diane | Published: December 9, 2011

1. Econometric Measures of Connectedness and Systemic Risk in the Finance and Insurance Sectors

by Monica Billio (Ca Foscari University of Venice – Department of Economics) and Loriana Pelizzon (University of Venice – Department of Economics) and Andrew Lo (MIT Sloan School of Management) and Mila Getmansky (University of Massachusetts at Amherst – Eugene M. Isenberg School of Management – Department of Finance & Operations Management)

2. ‘Thank God for the Lawyers’: Some Thoughts on the (Mis)Regulation of Scientific Misconduct

by Glenn Reynolds (University of Tennessee College of Law)

3. Updating History

by Rüdiger Stucke (University of Oxford – Said Business School)

4. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation

by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management)

5. How the British Gun Control Program Precipitated the American Revolution

by David Kopel (Independence Institute)

Posted in Top Papers | Leave a comment

Weekly Announcements – November 28, 2011

By Diane | Published: December 2, 2011

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:

Loyola University New Orleans Joins Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies

We are pleased to announce Loyola University New Orleans has started a Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies series, within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN).

LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS COLLEGE OF LAW LEGAL STUDIES RESEARCH PAPER SERIES
View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Loyola-U-LEG.html
Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=Loyola-U-LEG

The Loyola University New Orleans College of Law Research Paper Series in Legal Studies contains the recent scholarship of the College’s faculty. Established in 1914 in the Jesuit tradition of academic rigor, pursuit of justice, and service to others, the College of Law educates future members of the Bar to be skilled advocates and sensitive counselors-at-law who are committed to ethical norms in pursuit of dignity for all. The College of Law faculty is a community of scholars committed to excellence in teaching and scholarship, and the content of this Research Paper Series will reflect their broad and diverse areas of interest.

Announcing the CELS 2011: 6th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Online Proceedings

In cooperation with the Society for Empirical Legal Studies (SELS), the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) is pleased to announce the CELS 2011 6th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies online proceedings. The proceedings are available to all users at no charge and contain abstracts of publicly available papers to be presented at the conference with links to the full text in the SSRN eLibrary.

CELS 2011: 6th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies
The CELS 2011 conference is sponsored by the Society for Empirical Legal Studies (SELS), the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth at Northwestern Law, and the American Bar Foundation. The conference features original empirical and experimental legal scholarship by leading scholars from a diverse range of fields.

You can browse all abstracts for publicly available papers to be presented at CELS 2011 in the SSRN database at:
http://www.ssrn.com/link/CELS-2011.html.

You may also visit the CELS 2011 conference website at:
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/conferences/cels-2011.

Posted in Recent Announcements | Tagged American Bar Foundation, Law school, Loyola University New Orleans, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, NEW ORLEANS, Scholarship, Social Science Research Network, SSRN Links | Leave a comment

Weekly Top 5 Papers – December 2, 2011

By Diane | Published: December 2, 2011

1. Econometric Measures of Connectedness and Systemic Risk in the Finance and Insurance Sectors

2. Innovation and Competition Policy, Chapter 1: Competition Policy and the Scope of Intellectual Property Protection

by Herbert J. Hovenkamp (University of Iowa – College of Law)

3. Innovation and Competition Policy, Chapter 7: Intellectual Property Misuse

by Herbert J. Hovenkamp (University of Iowa – College of Law)

4. Innovation and Competition Policy, Chap. 4: Competition Policy and the Patent System

by Herbert J. Hovenkamp (University of Iowa – College of Law)

5. Innovation and Competition Policy, Ch. 2: Complementary Products and Processes – The Law of Tying

by Herbert J. Hovenkamp (University of Iowa – College of Law)

Posted in Top Papers | Tagged Competition law, CompetitionPolicy, FinancialServices, Herbert Hovenkamp, Intellectual property, MIT Sloan School of Management, United States, University of Iowa College of Law | Leave a comment

SSRN Attending JISC & Online Information Meetings in London

By Gregg | Published: November 28, 2011

There are a lot of people changing the world of scholarly communications and I’m looking forward to the 2011 JISC Geospatial Innovation Meeting (Joint Information Systems Committee) at Ravensborough College and Online Information 2011 at the Olympia Exhibition Center. Both of these meetings will highlight important new ways to use data and other tools to create innovative research.

Gregg Gordon is available to connect during either conference, send us a message.

Posted in Conferences and Presentations, President's Notes | Tagged JISC, London, online information 2011, Ravensborough College, scholarly publishing | Leave a comment

Weekly Top 5 Papers – November 18, 2011

By Diane | Published: November 18, 2011

1. Cultural Cognition as a Conception of the Cultural Theory of Risk

by Dan Kahan (Yale University – Law School)

2. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation

by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management)

3. 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 (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) and Luis Avendaño (University of Navarra – IESE Business School)

4. The Equity Premium in 150 Textbooks

by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School)

5. Insider Trading, Congressional Officials, and Duties of Entrustment

by Donna Nagy (Indiana University Maurer School of Law)

Posted in Top Papers | Leave a comment

Weekly Announcements – November 7, 2011

By Diane | Published: November 11, 2011

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:

Announcing Paris December 2011 Finance Meeting EUROFIDAI – AFFI Abstracting eJournal

In cooperation with EUROFIDAI (European Financial Data Institute) and AFFI (French Finance Association), the Financial Economics Network (FEN) is pleased to announce the Paris December 2011 Finance Meeting 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 traditional annual Paris December International Finance Meeting is organized by EUROFIDAI (European Financial Data Institute, which develops European stock exchange databases that are useful to finance researchers) and AFFI (French Finance Association, a network of researchers, teachers and practitioners specialized in financial management), and jointly sponsored by the CDC Institute for Economic Research, CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) and Fondation Banque de France pour la Recherche en Economie Monetaire, Financiere et Bancaire.

This abstracting eJournal provides a data warehouse for all abstracts and papers presented at the meeting. Abstracts of the papers will also be distributed in subject-specific eJournals within FEN and, where appropriate, in the eJournals of our sister networks.

View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Paris-2011-AFFI-EUROFIDAI.html
Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=Paris-2011-AFFI-EUROFIDAI
Conference URL (information & registration): http://www.eurofidai.org/december2011.html

Texas A&M University Mays Business School Joins MRN Business School Research Papers

We are pleased to announce the Texas A&M University Mays Business School has started an MRN Business School Research Papers series within the Management Research Network (MRN).

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY MAYS BUSINESS SCHOOL RESEARCH PAPER SERIES
View Abstracts: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Texas-A-M-Business.html
Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=Texas-A-M-Business

The faculty members of Mays Business School at Texas A&M University are known for the quality and impact of their research in both the academic and business worlds. These same faculty bring their energy, curiosity and skills to the classroom each and every day. They contribute to the overall mission of Texas A&M to be a truly comprehensive university where students, researchers, and inventors bring scholarship and innovation to bear for the benefit of the community, the state and the nation. Mays is fully accredited by AACSB. Its degree programs include BBA, Masters of Science, Full-Time and Professional MBA, Executive MBA, PhD, and non-degree executive education programs

Posted in Recent Announcements | Tagged France, Mays Business School, Professor, Social Science Research Network, SSRN Links, Tax, Texas, Texas A&M University | Leave a comment

Weekly Top 5 Papers – November 11, 2011

By Diane | Published: November 11, 2011

1. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation

by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management)

2. Cultural Cognition as a Conception of the Cultural Theory of Risk

by Dan Kahan (Yale University – Law School)

3. Reading About the Financial Crisis: A 21-Book Review

by Andrew Lo (MIT Sloan School of Management)

4. Operating Efficiently Post-Bilski by Ordering Patent Doctrine Decision-Making

by Dennis Crouch (University of Missouri School of Law) and Robert Merges (University of California, Berkeley – School of Law)

5. CEO Bonus Plans: And How to Fix Them

by Kevin Murphy (University of Southern California – Marshall School of Business) and Michael Jensen (Harvard Business School)

Posted in Top Papers | Tagged Dan Kahan, Dennis Crouch, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan School of Management, Tactical Asset Allocation, UC Berkeley School of Law, University of California, University of Missouri School of Law | Leave a comment

Weekly Top 5 Papers – November 4, 2011

By Diane | Published: November 4, 2011

1. Top-Down Versus Bottom-Up Approaches for Climate Change Negotiations: An Analysis

by Rafael Leal-Arcas (Queen Mary University of London, School of Law)

2. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation

by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management)

3. Company Valuation Methods: The Most Common Errors in Valuations

by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School)

4. Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure

by Michael Jensen (Harvard Business School) and William Meckling (Simon School, University of Rochester (Deceased))

5. Reading About the Financial Crisis: A 21-Book Review

by Andrew Lo (MIT Sloan School of Management)

Posted in Top Papers | Tagged Agency cost, Harvard Business School, IESE, London, Michael Jensen, MIT Sloan School of Management, Queen Mary University of London, Tactical Asset Allocation | Leave a comment

Weekly Announcements – October 24, 2011

By Diane | Published: October 28, 2011

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:

Announcing Paris December 2011 Finance Meeting EUROFIDAI – AFFI Abstracting eJournal

Posted in Recent Announcements | Tagged Economics, France, Law school, Law school rankings in the United States, Paris, Social Science Research Network, SSRN Links, Tax | Leave a comment

Weekly Top 5 Papers – October 28, 2011

By Diane | Published: October 28, 2011

1. Company Valuation Methods: The Most Common Errors in Valuations

by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School)

2. 110 Common Errors in Company Valuations

by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) and Andrada Bilan (University of Navarra – IESE Business School)

3. Valuing Companies by Cash Flow Discounting: Ten Methods and Nine Theories

by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School)

4. Top-Down Versus Bottom-Up Approaches for Climate Change Negotiations: An Analysis

by Rafael Leal-Arcas (Queen Mary University of London, School of Law)

5. WACC: Definition, Misconceptions and Errors

by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School)

Posted in Top Papers | Tagged Climate Change, Colleges and Universities, Education, England, IESE, Spain, University of London, University of Navarre | Leave a comment

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: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Drake-U-LEG.html
Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=Drake-U-LEG

The Drake University Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series features legal scholarship in all subject areas from faculty members, visiting scholars, affiliates and students of Drake University Law School. Founded in 1865, the Law School is one of the 25 oldest law schools in the United States. It aims to provide an exceptional learning environment that integrates legal theory and the development of professional skills; promotes critical thinking and effective problem solving; examines international perspectives; and instills the ideals of ethics and professionalism. The Law School is also the home of nationally-renowned centers in agricultural law, children’s rights, constitutional law, intellectual property law and legislative practice.

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:

De Nederlandsche Bank Joins ERN Government & Public Agency Research Paper Series

We are pleased to announce De Nederlandsche Bank has started an ERN Government & Public Agency Research Paper Series within the Economics Research Network (ERN).

DE NEDERLANDSCHE BANK RESEARCH PAPER SERIES
View Abstracts: http://ssrn.com/link/De-Nederlandsche-Bank-GOV.html

De Nederlandsche Bank (Netherlands Bank) is the central bank and financial sector supervisor in the Netherlands. DNB is also responsible for promoting robust and efficient payment systems. DNB Working Papers cover research on the five themes of the DNB research programme: monetary policy and price stability, central bank transparency and central bank communication, financial stability and macro-prudential supervision, micro-prudential supervision and behaviour of financial institutions, and financial literacy and behaviour of households and firms. Views and conclusions expressed in working papers are the responsibility of the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of DNB or the Eurosystem.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged De Nederlandsche Bank, Drake University Law School, Eurosystem, Law, Law school, Social Science Research Network, SSRN Links, United States | Leave a comment

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))

4. 110 Common Errors in Company Valuations

by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) and Andrada Bilan (University of Navarra – IESE Business School)

5. Valuing Companies by Cash Flow Discounting: Ten Methods and Nine Theories

by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School)

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 999 (emergency telephone number), Big Data, Edward D. Kleinbard, Herman Cain, IESE, Microsoft Research, University of New South Wales, USC Gould School of Law | Leave a comment

Open Access Week: SSRN at MIT

By Gregg | Published: October 21, 2011

Open Access Week, now entering its fifth year, is just around the corner. It is a global event which promotes the benefits of open access publishing via free, immediate and online access of scholarly research (#OAW2011).

I will be celebrating the week by speaking at MIT on 10/26. I will discuss how scholarly communications has changed in recent years and the need for article level metrics to help identify what we don’t know, we don’t know.

My presentation, The Scholarly Communication Collider, will also explore how bringing together the right content, in the right place at the right time, helps create scholarly research.

Members of the MIT community are welcome to attend, Wednesday, October 26 from 11:30-12:30 in 3-270.

Posted in Conferences and Presentations, President's Notes | Tagged article level metrics, Ellen Duranceau, Gregg Gordon, MIT, mit libraries, open access week, scholarly publishing | Leave a comment

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 papers with links to the full text in the SSRN eLibrary.

The American Finance Association (AFA) sponsors an annual meeting each January where the President speaks on a chosen topic and papers which cover the gamut of financial topics are presented. The current President of the Association is Raghuram Rajan of the University of Chicago. David H. Pyle of the University of California, Berkeley serves as Executive Secretary and Treasurer. The Association has officers and a board of directors who assist in key decisions and a set of by laws governing those decisions.

View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/AFA-2012-Chicago.html
Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=AFA-2012-Chicago
Conference URL: http://www.afajof.org/association/annualconf.asp

Announcing Expansion of ERN Econometrics: Applied Econometrics & Modeling eJournal

We are pleased to announce the expansion of Economics Research Network (ERN) Econometrics: Applied Econometrics & Modeling eJournal into the following eJournals:

ECONOMETRICS: APPLIED ECONOMETRIC MODELING IN AGRICULTURE, NATURAL RESOURCE, & ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS eJOURNAL
View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/App-Econometrics-Modeling-Agriculture.html
Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=App-Econometrics-Modeling-Agriculture

Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts focused on the application of econometric modeling techniques in agriculture, natural resources, and environmental economics. The topics in this journal include: Agricultural Economics; Environmental Economics; Natural Resource Economics; Other topics related to Applied Econometric Modeling in Agriculture, Natural Resource, & Environmental Economics not covered in the topics specifically listed.

ECONOMETRICS: APPLIED ECONOMETRIC MODELING IN FINANCIAL ECONOMICS eJOURNAL
View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/App-Econometric-Modeling-Financial-Econ.html
Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=App-Econometric-Modeling-Financial-Econ

Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts focused on the application of econometric modeling techniques in financial economics. The topics in this journal include: Agriculture & Commodity Markets; Behavioral Finance; Bid-Ask Spreads; CAPM Model; Diversification; Equity Premiums; Financial Derivatives; Financial Market Efficiency; Financial Market Volatility; Futures & Options; Insurance Markets; International Financial Markets; Islamic & Non-Traditional Financing; Microfinance; Monetary Economics & Interest Rates; Mutual Funds; Pension Funds; Portfolio Optimization; Real Estate Investment Funds; Regulation of Financial Markets; Risk; Sovereign Debt & Wealth; Stock Market Returns; Venture Capital; Other topics related to Applied Econometric Modeling in Financial Economics not covered in the topics specifically listed.

ECONOMETRICS: APPLIED ECONOMETRIC MODELING IN FORECASTING eJOURNAL
View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/App-Econometric-Modeling-Forecasting.html
Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=App-Econometric-Modeling-Forecasting

Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts focused on the application of econometric modeling techniques in forecasting. The topics in this journal include: Consumption & Savings Forecasting; Employment Forecasting; Monetary Forecasting; Prices Forecasting; Production Forecasting; Other topics related to Applied Econometric Modeling in Forecasting not covered in the topics specifically listed.

ECONOMETRICS: APPLIED ECONOMETRIC MODELING IN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS eJOURNAL
View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/App-Econometric-Modeling-Intl-Economics.html
Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=App-Econometric-Modeling-Intl-Economics

Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts focused on the application of econometric modeling techniques in international economics. The topics in this journal include: International Finance; International Trade; Other topics related to Applied Econometric Modeling in International Economics not covered in the topics specifically listed.

ECONOMETRICS: APPLIED ECONOMETRIC MODELING IN MACROECONOMICS eJOURNAL
View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/App-Econometric-Modeling-Macroeconomics.html
Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=App-Econometric-Modeling-Macroeconomics

Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts focused on the application of econometric modeling techniques in macroeconomics. The topics in this journal include: Business Cycles; Capital, Investment, & Production; Consumption & Savings; Development Economics; Economic Growth; Fiscal Policy; Immigration; Inflation & Deflation; Infrastructure & Public Investment; Monetary Policy; Poverty & Inequality; Wealth, Income, & Wage Distribution; Other topics related to Applied Econometric Modeling in Macroeconomics not covered in the topics specifically listed.

ECONOMETRICS: APPLIED ECONOMETRIC MODELING IN MICROECONOMICS eJOURNAL
View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/App-Econometric-Modeling-Microeconomics.html
Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=App-Econometric-Modeling-Microeconomics

Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts focused on the application of econometric modeling techniques in microeconomics. The topics in this journal include: Consumer Behavior; Corporate Governance; Economics of Religion; Economics of the Family; Education & Human Capital; Firm Behavior; Health Economics; Information; Labor Economics; Public Choice & Collective Decision Making; Real Estate Economics; Social Choice, Clubs, & Associations; Sports Economics; Urban Economics; Other topics related to Applied Econometric Modeling in Microeconomics not covered in the topics specifically listed.

ECONOMETRICS: ECONOMETRIC MODEL CONSTRUCTION, ESTIMATION & SELECTION eJOURNAL
View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Econometric-Model-Const-Est-Selection.html
Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=Econometric-Model-Const-Est-Selection

Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts focused on the application of econometric model construction, estimation, and selection. The topics in this journal include: Model Construction & Estimation; Model Construction & Selection; Other topics related to Econometric Model Construction, Estimation & Selection not covered in the topics specifically listed.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged American Finance Association, Environmental Economics, Financial economics, Forecasting, Raghuram Rajan, Social Science Research Network, SSRN Links, Tax | Leave a comment

Weekly Top 5 Papers – October 14, 2011

By Diane | Published: October 14, 2011

1. Optimal Software Free Trial Strategy: The Impact of Network Externalities and Consumer Uncertainty

by H. Kenneth Cheng (University of Florida – Warrington College of Business Administration) and Yipeng Liu (University of Florida – Warrington College of Business Administration)

2. Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 Tax Plan

by Edward D. Kleinbard (USC Gould School of Law)

3. Six Provocations for Big Data

by danah boyd (Microsoft Research) and Kate Crawford (University of New South Wales (UNSW))

4. Belief, Truth, and Positive Organizational Deviance

by Gregory Scott Parks (Wake Forest University School of Law) and Shayne E. Jones (University of South Florida) and Matthew W. Hughey (Mississippi State University – Department of Sociology)

5. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation

by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management)

Posted in Top Papers | Tagged Edward D. Kleinbard, Florida, Herman Cain, Microsoft Research, Tactical Asset Allocation, University of Florida, University of New South Wales, USC Gould School of Law | Leave a comment

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

by danah boyd (Microsoft Research) and Kate Crawford (University of New South Wales (UNSW))

4. What If Everything We Know About Economic Policy is Wrong?

by Dan Ciuriak and John M. Curtis (Centre for International Governance Innovation)

5. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation

by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management)

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Weekly Announcements – September 26, 2011

By Diane | Published: September 30, 2011

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:

Announcing Fifth Singapore International Conference on Finance 2011 Abstracting eJournal on SSRN

In cooperation with the National University of Singapore Saw Centre for Financial Studies, the Financial Economics Network (FEN) is pleased to announce the Fifth Singapore International Conference on Finance 2011. This abstracting eJournal is available to all subscribers at no charge and contains abstracts of the conference papers with links to the full text in the SSRN eLibrary.

The Singapore International Conference on Finance is an annual global conference designed to bring together a select group of scholars to discuss their research results.

View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Singapore-2011.html
Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=Singapore-2011

Posted in Recent Announcements | Tagged Law school, Law school rankings in the United States, National University of Singapore, Professor, Singapore, Social Science Research Network, SSRN Links, Tax | Leave a comment

Weekly Top 5 Papers – September 30, 2011

By Diane | Published: September 30, 2011

1. Optimal Software Free Trial Strategy: The Impact of Network Externalities and Consumer Uncertainty

by H. Kenneth Cheng (University of Florida – Warrington College of Business Administration) and Yipeng Liu (University of Florida – Warrington College of Business Administration)

2. WACC: Definition, Misconceptions and Errors

by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School)

3. The Drama! Teen Conflict, Gossip, and Bullying in Networked Publics

by Alice E. Marwick (Microsoft Corporation – Microsoft Research New England) and danah boyd (Microsoft Research)

4. Six Provocations for Big Data

by danah boyd (Microsoft Research) and Kate Crawford (University of New South Wales (UNSW))

5. A Map and Simple Heuristic to Detect Fragility, Antifragility, and Model Error

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NYU-Poly)

Posted in Top Papers | Tagged Big Data, Drama, Gossip, Microsoft, MicrosoftResearch, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, University of Florida, University of New South Wales | Leave a comment

Remixing Scholarly Research

By Gregg | Published: September 28, 2011

Kirby Ferguson is a quirky New York-based filmmaker with an interesting idea. He wanted to show copying was often part of the creative process by providing popular examples of remixed content. The research and examples from different types of media have been aggregated into an extremely well done, short video series titled Everything Is a Remix. Since I’ve blogged about plagiarism and Open Access in the past, a few people recommended the series to me and it got me thinking about scholarly research in a new and different way.

In the first of the (very soon to be) four videos, he jumps in with recognizable audio examples from Led Zeppelin in the 60′s to Sugar Hill in the 70′s. Sugar Hill’s early example of “sampling” a base line from Chic’s “Goodtimes” has been remixed dozens of times since then. Kirby suggests that remix techniques (collecting material, combining, transforming, and distributing) are the same ones used in any other creative process. In effect, he argues, everything is a remix.

This was an eye opening perspective for me.

I immediately drew several correlations between Kirby’s premise and what I have been seeing and speaking about over the last few years. The SSRN eLibrary provides simple, easy, Open Access to scholarly research in a way that wasn’t previously possible. And, this new level of access allows researchers to remix different perspectives from different disciplines into new innovative research.

My simple definition of innovation is

the ability to create new things by being exposed to broader and deeper set of existing things.

One of the core ideas behind SSRN is that scholarly research relies on previous research to identify new problems, develop solutions to problems, or empirically test those solutions. We created CiteReader and continue to update it so that readers can easily go backwards and forwards through the scholarly literature. We provide tomorrow’s research today so that it can be used to create new, innovative research faster.

Larry Lessig, Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard Law School Professor and former SSRN Editor, discusses remix from another perspective in his TED talk about copyright laws choking creativity and finding a balance. His concern is limiting creativity and innovation by constraining how content can be used.

The question of whether remixing content is part of the creative process or stealing someone else’s work is a very interesting topic that we will continue to explore in the future, but I think Carl Sagan probably summed it up best:

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Posted in President's Notes, Scholarship, Technology & Development | Tagged Carl Sagan, Creativity, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, everything is a remix, innovation, Kirby Ferguson, Larry Lessig, Open Access, scholarly publishing, SSRN citereader, SSRN Links, TED | Leave a comment

Subscribe
_______
Search
SSRN Links
twitter @ ssrn
- Veiled Political Questions: Islamic Dress, Constitutionalism, and the Ascendance of Courts by Jill Goldenpine http://t.co/hZho6FWh May 18, 2012
  Veiled Political Questions: Islamic Dress, Constitutionalism, and the Ascendance of Courts by Jill Goldenpine http://t.co/hZho6FWh […]
  jadmadi (Madi)
- Reading: http://t.co/AeRQpjt0 May 18, 2012
  Reading: http://t.co/AeRQpjt0 […]
  xXifachanXx (Zarifah Amir)
- http://t.co/W3txNGKu Platform을 학문적, 이론적으로 가장 활발히 정립하고 있는 토마스 아이센만/제프리 파커/마샬... http://t.co/jVMfRoQd May 18, 2012
  http://t.co/W3txNGKu Platform을 학문적, 이론적으로 가장 활발히 정립하고 있는 토마스 아이센만/제프리 파커/마샬... http://t.co/jVMfRoQd […]
  Humanist5804 (Kim Jin Young)
- State of Democracy and Human Rights in Turkey - Saber Ahmed Chowdhury -- SSRN via JohnnyAngel ... http://t.co/v78w4hy5 May 18, 2012
  State of Democracy and Human Rights in Turkey - Saber Ahmed Chowdhury -- SSRN via JohnnyAngel ... http://t.co/v78w4hy5 […]
  johnnyangel10 (JohnnyAngel Advocacy)
- RT @quantivity: Estimating a Semiparametric Asymmetric Stochastic Volatility Model with a Dirichlet Process Mixture: http://t.co/CYbCOvck May 18, 2012
  RT @quantivity: Estimating a Semiparametric Asymmetric Stochastic Volatility Model with a Dirichlet Process Mixture: http://t.co/CYbCOvck […]
  isomorphisms (i)
Tags

Aart Kraay Brookings Institution Business Colleges and Universities Daniel J. Solove Daniel Kaufmann downloads Economic Economics Education Electronic journal eLibrary Finance George Washington University Law School Gregg Gordon Harvard Business School Harvard Law School Harvard University IESE IESE Business School Law Law school LSN Massimo Mastruzzi Mebane T. Faber Michael C. Jensen MIT Sloan School of Management Nassim Nicholas Taleb National Bureau of Economic Research Open Access Pablo Fernandez Political science Princeton University Research Social Science Research Network Social sciences SSRN Links SSRN Links Tactical Asset Allocation Top Papers United States University of Navarre William H. Meckling World Bank Institute Yale Law School
Categories
Archives

Weekly Top 5 Papers – December 9, 2011

Weekly Top 5 Papers – December 2, 2011

SSRN Attending JISC & Online Information Meetings in London

Weekly Top 5 Papers – November 18, 2011

Weekly Top 5 Papers – November 11, 2011

Weekly Top 5 Papers – November 4, 2011

Weekly Top 5 Papers – October 28, 2011

Weekly Top 5 Papers – October 21, 2011

Open Access Week: SSRN at MIT

Weekly Top 5 Papers – October 14, 2011

Weekly Top 5 Papers – October 7, 2011

Weekly Top 5 Papers – September 30, 2011

Remixing Scholarly Research

Subscribe

Search

SSRN Links

twitter @ ssrn

Categories

Archives

SSRN Links

RSS Links

Meta

University of Eastern Finland Joins Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies

Loyola University New Orleans Joins Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies

Announcing the CELS 2011: 6th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Online Proceedings

Announcing Paris December 2011 Finance Meeting EUROFIDAI – AFFI Abstracting eJournal

Texas A&M University Mays Business School Joins MRN Business School Research Papers

Announcing Paris December 2011 Finance Meeting EUROFIDAI – AFFI Abstracting eJournal

Drake University Joins Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies

De Nederlandsche Bank Joins ERN Government & Public Agency Research Paper Series

Announcing the American Finance Association 2012 Meetings Abstracting Journal

Announcing Expansion of ERN Econometrics: Applied Econometrics & Modeling eJournal

Announcing Fifth Singapore International Conference on Finance 2011 Abstracting eJournal on SSRN

Subscribe

Search

SSRN Links

Tags

Categories

Archives

SSRN Links

RSS Links

Meta