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Weekly Top 5 Papers – March 29, 2013

1. The Storrs Lectures: Behavioral Economics and Paternalism by Cass Sunstein (Harvard Law School) Cass Sunstein Is paternalism justifiable? Many people (including many economists) have been comfortable with the view that when people’s decisions affect only themselves, government should not intrude on their decisions. But behavioral economists and cognitive psychologists have been raising serious doubts [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – October 12, 2012

1. The Eurozone Debt Crisis — The Options Now by Lee C. Buchheit (Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP – New York Office) and G. Mitu Gulati (Duke University – School of Law) 2. The Halloween Indicator: Everywhere and All the Time by Ben Jacobsen (New Zealand Institute of Advanced Study) and Cherry Yi Zhang [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – March 30, 2012

1. There’s No There There: Low Tax Rates and Economic Growth by Filip Spagnoli (National Bank of Belgium) 2. The Law Review Games by Miriam Cherry (Saint Louis University – School of Law) and Paul Secunda (Marquette University – Law School) 3. Equity Risk Premiums (ERP): Determinants, Estimation and Implications – the 2012 Edition by [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – August 26, 2011

1. Predicting Patent Litigation by Colleen V. Chien (Santa Clara University – School of Law) 2. Where the Black Swans Hide & the 10 Best Days Myth by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 3. How Markets Work: The Lawyer’s Version by Mark Weidemaier (University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill – School of [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – June 3, 2011

1. Bitcoin: An Innovative Alternative Digital Currency by Reuben Grinberg (Yale Law School) 2. The Future Has Thicker Tails than the Past: Model Error as Branching Counterfactuals by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NYU-Poly) 3. Persecution Perpetuated: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany by Nico Voigtländer (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) – Anderson [...]
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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 – 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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