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APE 2010: What We Don’t Know We Don’t Know

Earlier this year I had the pleasure of speaking at Academic Publishing Europe (APE 2010) at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences about article level metrics.  APE 2010 was a very interesting conference with a wonderfully diverse audience.  The sharing was open and the discussions were quite frank, especially considering the number of competitors in the [...]
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SSRN Development – CiteReader

In 2008, SSRN released CiteReader and Reference Technology into their Beta labs. CiteReader captures references from the papers in the SSRN eLibrary. These references are then verified and linked to the cited papers in the eLibrary. Currently, CiteReader and Reference Technology are accessible to all registered SSRN Users. Registration is free at SSRN’s User HeadQuarters. [...]
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Recent SSRN Development Project – eLibrary Viewer

One of the biggest challenges in scholarly research today is wading through the growing mountain of content. We fully acknowledge there is an overabundance of information in scholarly research today and are working hard to make searching and sifting through the content contained in our eLibrary much easier. Since we received ~50,000 submissions last year, [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – July 3, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending July 3, 2009: 1. Governance Matters VIII: Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators, 1996-2008 by Daniel Kaufmann (Brookings Institution) and Aart Kraay (World Bank – Development Research Group) and Massimo Mastruzzi (World Bank Institute) 2. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – June 26, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending June 26, 2009: 1. Are Stocks Really Less Volatile in the Long Run? by Lubos Pastor (University of Chicago – Booth School of Business; Centre for Economic Policy Research; National Bureau of Economic Research) and Robert F. Stambaugh (University of [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – 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

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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Weekly Top 5 Papers – June 5, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending June 5, 2009: 1. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 2. Slapped in the Face by the Invisible Hand: Banking and the Panic of 2007 by Gary B. Gorton (Yale School of [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 29, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending May 29, 2009: 1. Betas Used by Professors: A Survey with 2,500 Answers 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. Slapped [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 22, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending May 22, 2009: 1. Slapped in the Face by the Invisible Hand: Banking and the Panic of 2007 by Gary B. Gorton (Yale School of Management; National Bureau of Economic Research) 2. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 15, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending May 15, 2009: 1. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 2. Buying Troubled Assets by Lucian A. Bebchuk (Harvard University – Harvard Law School; National Bureau of Economic Research; European Corporate Governance [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 8, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending May 8, 2009: 1. Too Big to Fail, Hidden Risks, and the Fallacy of Large Institutions by Charles S. Tapiero (NYU-Poly Institute) and Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NYU-Poly Institute) 2. Interrogation’s Law by William Ranney Levi (Yale University – Law School) [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 1, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending May 1, 2009: 1. Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Cost and Ownership Structure by Michael C. Jensen (Harvard Business School; The Monitor Company; Social Science Electronic Publishing) and William H. Meckling (University of Rochester Simon School [deceased]) 2. [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – April 24, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending April 24, 2009: 1. Best Ideas by Randolph B. Cohen (Harvard Business School), Christopher K. Polk (London School of Economics), and Bernhard Silli 2. Green Jobs Myths by Andrew P. Morriss (University of Illinois College of Law), William T. Bogart [...]
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