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NYU-POLY Gerstein Fisher Research Center for Finance and Risk Engineering Joins FEN Research Paper Series

We are pleased to announce that NYU-POLY Gerstein Fisher Research Center for Finance and Risk Engineering has started a Research Paper Series within the Financial Economics Network (FEN).

View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/NYU-POLY-RES.html

The Gerstein Fisher Research Center for Finance and Risk Engineering undertakes theoretical and applied research rooted in the fundamental principles of economics, finance and risk engineering. The Center is interdisciplinary and seeks to bridge a gap between theory and practice. Its research projects are currently focused in four areas, spanning: Personal Finance - a finance that cares for the individual; Risk Engineering and Finance; Finance and Risk Management of the Unlikely; and Alternative Finance. (View full announcement)

Announcing Two New LSN Subject Matter eJournals

We are pleased to announce two new Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) Subject Matter eJournals under Environmental & Natural Resources Law Journals — Climate Change Law & Policy and International Environmental Law.

CLIMATE CHANGE LAW & POLICY

Editors: Daniel A. Farber, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and Patrick A. Parenteau, Vermont Law School

View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Climate-Change-Law-Policy.html

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First Issue: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/sample_issues/1397282_CMBO.html

Description: Climate Change Law and Policy distributes abstracts of articles dealing with all aspects of environmental law and policy research relating to climate change.

INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

Editors: David D. Caron, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and Tseming Yang, Vermont Law School

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First Issue: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/sample_issues/1397291_CMBO.html

Description: International Environmental Law distributes abstracts of articles dealing with research in the field of law and policy regarding international environmental and global challenges whether approached at a private, national, regional or global level. (View full announcement)

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:

Bancaria Joins FEN Partners in Publishing

We are pleased to announce that Bancaria has joined our Partners in Publishing within the Financial Economics Network (FEN).

View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Bancaria.html

Bancaria is the journal of the Italian Banking Association published by Bancaria Editrice. Over the last 80 years Bancaria contributed to the awareness and in-depth examination of national and international banking and financial system dynamics. Today it is one of the more acknowledged and widespread Italian financial journals. (View full announcement)

Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA) Joins ERN Research Paper Series

We are pleased to announce that Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA) has started a Research Paper Series within the Economics Research Network (ERN).

View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Mannheim-RES.html

The Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA) Research Paper Series focuses on selected micro- and macroeconomic aspects of demographic change. It contains research results from research scientists, doctoral students and visiting scholars at MEA. The papers are published electronically by the institution and available online. (View full announcement)

Journal of CENTRUM Cathedra Joins MRN Partners in Publishing

We are pleased to announce that Journal of CENTRUM Cathedra has joined our Partners in Publishing within the Management Research Network (MRN).

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The Journal of CENTRUM Cathedra (JCC) is the official academic journal of CENTRUM Catolica, the Business School of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. The mission of the JCC is to disseminate knowledge generated by academic and doctoral research conducted at CENTRUM Catolica and other universities in the areas of global strategic management. (View full announcement)

Announcing 2009 CAAA Annual Conference Abstracting eJournal

In cooperation with the Canadian Academic Accounting Association, the Accounting Research Network (ARN) is pleased to announce the 2009 CAAA Annual Conference Abstracting eJournal. This abstracting eJournal is available to all users at no charge and contains abstracts of the meeting’s papers with links to the full text within the SSRN eLibrary.

The Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA) is an organization of accounting educators, professional accountants, and others who are involved in, or concerned about, research and education in accounting and related areas. The CAAA’s mission is to promote excellence in accounting research and education in Canada. This abstracting eJournal provides a data warehouse for all abstracts and papers presented at the conference. Abstracts of the papers will also be published in subject-specific journals within ARN and, where appropriate, in the journals of our sister networks.

You can browse all 2009 CAAA Annual Conference abstracts in the SSRN database by clicking on the following link. There are currently more than 35 such papers in the system. You may wish to bookmark it in your browser. (View full announcement)

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First Issue: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/sample_issues/1162496_CMBO.html

Here is the latest announcement from SSRN:

Announcing EFA 2009 Annual Meeting Abstracting Journal

In cooperation with the European Finance Association (EFA), the Financial Economics Network (FEN) is pleased to announce the 2009 European Finance Association (EFA) Annual Meeting abstracting journal. The abstracting journal is available to all users at no charge and contains abstracts of the meeting papers with links to the full text within the SSRN eLibrary.

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Conference URL: http://www.efa2009.org
Recent Issue: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/sample_issues/1279763_CMBO.html

The European Finance Association (EFA) was founded in 1974 in collaboration with the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) and the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM). The aim of the Association is to provide a professional society for academics and practitioners with an interest in financial management, financial theory and its application. EFA serves as a focal point of communication for its European and international members. It also provides a framework for better dissemination of information and exchange on a global scale.

The Association’s Annual Meeting is one of its main activities. Since 1974, the meetings have been organized each year in different cities all over Europe. They provide the opportunity to present research work in the field of corporate finance, investment, financial markets, money and banking. (View full announcement)

We are always announcing new Research Paper Series, Subject Matter eJournals, and other additions to the SSRN site. So, we thought it might be useful to include a weekly round-up each Thursday.

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:

Bloomberg ALPHA Research & Education Research Paper Series

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The Bloomberg ALPHA Research and Education Paper Series covers all subjects of interest for quantitative risk and portfolio management. The series is divided into Classroom and Frontiers. Classroom articles revisit well-established results under a consistent, highly rigorous, yet fully digest-able perspective. Frontiers articles explore new territories.
In particular, the first issue of this series covers the Black-Litterman methodology, its enhancements, and its generalizations. (View full announcement)

9th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language (CSDL9) Online Proceedings

View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/9th-CSDL-2008.html

CSDL features presentations in the fields of cognitive linguistics, functional linguistics, discourse, corpus linguistics, and speech & language processing by scholars exploring the interface between language and cognition. The theme of CSDL 9 is “Meaning, Form, and Body.” The focus is on two central, related research areas in the study of language:

1. The integration of form and meaning, and
2. Language and the human body.

These topics intersect naturally, as in the study of grammatical constructions, of conceptual integration, and of gesture. (View full announcement)

ERN Randomized Social Experiments Abstracting eJournal

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Randomized Social Experiments includes, but is not limited to, field studies of social programs in which the behavior of individuals, households, or (in rare instances) firms or organizations is examined subject to a protocol which includes:

1. Random assignment: Creation of at least two groups of human subjects who differ from one another by chance alone;
2. Policy intervention: A set of actions ensuring that different incentives, opportunities, or constraints confront the members of each of the randomly assigned groups in their daily lives;
3. Follow-up data collection: Measurement of various outcomes for members of each group; and
4. Evaluation: Application of statistical inference and informed professional judgment about the degree to which the policy interventions have caused differences in outcomes between the groups.

Randomized Social Experiments will also contain information on certain studies that would be excluded from the above definition because they do not involve social policy interventions, and therefore expands on the Digest. (View full announcement)