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 of Business)

4. Bad News for Mail Robbers: The Obvious Constitutionality of Health Care Reform
by Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern University School of Law)

5. What Economists Know About Open Source Software – Its Basic Principles and Research Results
by Sebastian Von Engelhardt (University of Jena – Economics Department)

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending November 27, 2009:

1. Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be…Lawyers
by Herwig J. Schlunk (Vanderbilt University School of Law)

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

3. Underwater and Not Walking Away: Shame, Fear and the Social Management of the Housing Crisis
by Brent T. White (University of Arizona – James E. Rogers College of Law)

4. Why Jack Balkin is Disgusting
by Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern University School of Law)

5. Governance Matters VIII: Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators, 1996-2008
by Daniel Kaufmann (The Brookings Institution) and Aart Kraay (World Bank – Development Research Group (DECRG)) and Massimo Mastruzzi (World Bank Institute)