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Inter-American Development Bank Joins ERN Government & Public Agency Research Paper Series

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

INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK RESEARCH PAPER SERIES

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The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is the largest source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean. While it is a regular bank in many ways, it is also unique in some key respects. Besides loans, the IDB also provides grants, technical assistance and conducts research on the economic and social topics of greatest relevance to the region today. In addition to building its own reputation as the premier source of knowledge on Latin America and the Caribbean, the IDB also finances and mentors studies conducted by other institutions in order to build knowledge and research capacity in the region.

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Announcing Finlawmetrics 2010 Conference Abstracting eJournal

In cooperation with the Paolo Baffi Centre on Central Banking and Financial Regulation, the European Banking Center (EBC), and the Center on Central Banks and Financial Institutions, the Financial Economics Network (FEN) is pleased to announce the Finlawmetrics 2010 “Central Banking, Regulation and Supervision after the Financial Crisis” 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.

After four editions, Finlawmetrics has established itself as a unique forum for analysis and discussion of the most relevant issues related to the evolution of thinking and practice in the fields of central banking, financial regulation and supervision. 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 FEN and, where appropriate, in the journals of our sister networks.

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Conference URL: http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/ebc/events/finlawmetrics/

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Announcing New FEN Subject Matter eJournal

We are pleased to announce a new Financial Economics Network (FEN) Subject Matter eJournal — International Corporate Finance eJournal.

INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE FINANCE eJOURNAL

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Editor: Rene M. Stulz, Ohio State University (OSU) – Department of Finance, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts addressing cross-country issues in corporate finance. Topics include, for instance, how differences in laws affect how agency conflicts are managed, the role of institutions on financing practices, the role of financial development on governance, comparisons of leverage ratios across countries, determinants of differences in cost of capital across countries, and so on.

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Announcing New FEN Subject Matter eJournal

We are pleased to announce a new Financial Economics Network (FEN) Subject Matter eJournal — Household Finance eJournal.

HOUSEHOLD FINANCE eJOURNAL

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Editors: Nicholas S. Souleles, University of Pennsylvania – Finance Department, and Peter Tufano, Harvard Business School

Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts as an outlet to share new research in the emerging field of household finance. Household finance is defined broadly to include the many financial decisions households make, including the financial functions of payments; saving, investing and portfolio-choice; borrowing and credit; risk management; and advisory services. This research may have a consumer focus (e.g., how and why consumers make certain financial decisions), a business focus (e.g., the economics of different consumer finance products or businesses, or conflicts of interest), or a legal/regulatory focus (e.g., analyses of existing or proposed regulations.)

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Brown University Joins Law Research Centers Papers; William Mitchell Upgrades Its Legal Studies Research Paper Series

We are pleased to announce that Brown University Advanced Research Institute in Law, Social Thought and Global Governance has started a Law Research Centers Papers series within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN). William Mitchell College of Law has upgraded its Legal Studies Research Paper Series within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) from a basic series to a full series, which includes, but is not limited to, a customized abstracting eJournal distributed to SSRN subscribers.

BROWN UNIVERSITY – LAW, SOCIAL THOUGHT & GLOBAL GOVERNANCE RESEARCH PAPER SERIES
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The Brown University Advanced Research Institute in Law, Social Thought and Global Governance series seeks to map the structures of power and distribution by analyzing the ways in which global security and insecurity, hegemonic ideas and counter-hegemonic ideas, development, poverty and inequality are reproduced in the world. The series is co-edited by: Vasuki Nesiah, David Kennedy, Nathaniel Berman and Ileana Porras of the Watson Institute in Brown University.

WILLIAM MITCHELL COLLEGE OF LAW LEGAL STUDIES RESEARCH PAPER SERIES
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William Mitchell College of Law was founded in 1900 and is located in St. Paul, Minnesota. Mitchell’s “practical wisdom” approach blends critical scholarship and intellectual rigor with vital practice skills, encourages strong connections to the profession, and instills an ethic of service to clients and community. Mitchell’s accessible faculty and flexible scheduling attract a wide variety of full- and part-time students from myriad professional and personal backgrounds. Many Mitchell students have gone on to become distinguished leaders at the bench and bar and in the business and civic arenas, among them the 15th Chief Justice of the United States, Warren E. Burger ’31 and the first woman to serve on the Minnesota Supreme Court, Rosalie E. Wahl ’67. The college is named for Justice William Mitchell of the Minnesota Supreme Court (1881-1899) whose opinions were regarded as models of brevity and sound judicial reasoning. Today, the college continues its tradition of academic excellence and access to legal education that combines theory, practical skills, professional ethics, and public service.

Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business Joins MRN Business School Research Papers

We are pleased to announce that Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business has started an MRN Business School Research Papers series within the Management Research Network (MRN).

SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY LEAVEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS RESEACH PAPER SERIES
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The Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business Research Paper Series contains abstracts and papers from Leavey School scholars in accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management, and operations and management information systems.

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Announcing 4 New Sponsored LSN Subject Matter eJournals

We are pleased to announce four new Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) Sponsored Subject Matter eJournals under Law, Brain & Behavior Journals. Law & Evolution, Law & Neuroscience, Law & Prosociality, and Law, Cognition, & Decisionmaking, are sponsored by Indiana University Maurer School of Law and by the UCLA School of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles.

LAW, BRAIN & BEHAVIOR JOURNALS
Law is concerned with organizing and constraining human behavior. As a result, some model of human behavior, implicit or explicit, underlies legal principles and analysis. Papers in LAW, BRAIN & BEHAVIOR employ conceptual and empirical findings from various disciplines, including neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and experimental psychology, to shed light on how we can best understand law and and use it to guide human behavior in desirable directions.

LAW & EVOLUTION
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Editor: Jeffrey Evans Stake, Robert A. Lucas Chair of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Description: This journal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts with a focus on the intersection of law and evolution in a number of domains. First and foremost, evolutionary psychology and biology provide a model of human behavior that can be helpful in understanding legal rules, critiquing them, and suggesting reforms. Second, understanding the evolution of the biological world is important for constructing legal regimes to address a wide variety of issues, from the environment to medicine. Third, ideas can and often do replicate, becoming “memes,” and their evolution has implications for the law, both because many areas of the law deal with ideas and because laws and legal institutions are themselves evolving replicators. This journal accepts working papers, essays, published articles, experimental and research reports, and other scholarly treatments of topics within the intersection of LAW AND EVOLUTION.

LAW & NEUROSCIENCE
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Editor: Oliver Goodenough, Professor, Vermont Law School, Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society

Description: This journal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts with a focus on law and the emerging science of the brain sharing a basic preoccupation: understanding the nature of human thought and action. Law has been had an implicit science of mind; cognitive neuroscience is an explicit version. A sustained academic dialog between these disciplines will lead to advances on each side of the conversation. In particular we desire to increase access to, as well as understanding of, human action. By access we mean an actionable pathway to improving human action. Law will be enriched with better models of thought and behavior and with a tool-kit of applications and interventions for such difficult problems as addiction, mental health, and legal procedure itself. Cognitive science will benefit from the challenge of tackling problems whose solutions could have significant consequences for justice and social welfare. The abstracting journal LAW AND NEUROSCIENCE provides a forum for conducting this exchange. It will accept working papers, essays, published articles, experimental and research reports, and other scholarly treatments of topics at the intersection of law, neuroscience and related disciplines, such as cognitive psychology, economics, and behavioral biology.

LAW & PROSOCIALITY
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Editor: Lynn Stout, Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles – School of Law

Description: This journal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts covering various aspects of the many interactions between law and prosocial behavior. Extensive empirical evidence demonstrates that rather than always maximizing their own material self-interest, people often behave prosocially by sacrificing their own material welfare in order to help, and sometimes in order to harm, other people. For example, people often follow legal rules, obey social norms, and show both trust and trustworthiness, even when external sanctions are weak or absent. Papers in LAW AND PROSOCIALITY use data and evidence gathered from neuroscience, experimental and behavioral economics and psychology, and other life and social sciences to shed light on the empirical phenomenon of prosocial behavior and to examine how prosocial behavior depends on, reinforces, and interacts with law and public policy. Legal scholars, behavioral economists, psychologists, policy experts, and other researchers and scholars are encouraged to submit papers that investigate the empirical phenomenon of prosocial behaviors, including behaviors like trust, altruism, cooperation, and altruistic punishment, and their relation to law and social order.

LAW, COGNITION, & DECISIONMAKING
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Editor: Russell Korobkin, Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles – School of Law

Description: This journal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts at the intersection of research on behavioral decisionmaking and law. Evaluations of existing or potential legal policy require an understanding of how law affects behavior, and an understanding of behavior in turn requires insight into how individuals process information and make decisions. Papers in LAW, COGNITION, and DECISIONMAKING use knowledge of how humans process information to render judgments, form preferences, and make choices for the purpose of informing descriptive and normative analysis of law.

Announcing Expansion of ERN Microeconomics Subject Matter eJournal

We are pleased to announce the expansion of Economics Research Network (ERN) Microeconomics: Information, Specific Knowledge, & Uncertainty into the following eJournals:

MICROECONOMICS: ASYMMETRIC & PRIVATE INFORMATION
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts of empirical and theoretical papers on microeconomic aspects of information including the analysis of decisions in transactions where the costs of information transfer result in one party having different information than the other. Included in this topic are studies in which the cost of transferring or creating information lead to information asymmetries in principal-agent problems. The topics in this journal include topics D82, D83, D86 and D87 from Section D8 of the JEL classification system.

MICROECONOMICS: DECISION-MAKING UNDER RISK & UNCERTAINTY
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts of empirical and theoretical papers on microeconomic aspects of the analysis of economic actors making decisions facing different levels of risk and uncertainty. Included in this topic are models based on probability, and utility theories. The topics in this journal include topics D81 from Section D8 of the JEL classification system.

MICROECONOMICS: SEARCH; LEARNING; INFORMATION COSTS & SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE; EXPECTATION & SPECULATION
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts of empirical and theoretical papers on microeconomic aspects of the role played by the costs of information transfer, learning, and searching, in decision-making under uncertainty and risk. The analysis of the role played by expectations and speculation in reaching decisions in the context of costly information and uncertainty is also included in this topic. The topics in this journal include topics D83 and D84 from Section D8 of the JEL classification system.

Announcing Paris December 2009 Finance International Meeting AFFI – EUROFIDAI on SSRN

In cooperation with the Paris Finance International Meeting AFFI – EUROFIDAI, the Financial Economics Network (FEN) is pleased to announce the Paris December 2009 Finance International Meeting Online Proceedings. These proceedings are available to all users at no charge and contain abstracts of the meeting’s papers with links to the full text within the SSRN eLibrary.

The annual Paris Finance International Meeting is organized by AFFI (French Finance Association) and EUROFIDAI (European Financial Data Institute), and jointly sponsored by CDC Institute for Economic Research, CNRS, Fondation Banque de France pour la Recherche en Economie Monetaire, Financiere et Bancaire and Ministere de l’Enseignement Superieur et de la Recherche and Pôle universitaire Léonard de Vinci.

The latest research in all areas of finance is included in the meeting. Program chair is Patrice Fontaine.

This abstracting eJournal provides a data warehouse for all abstracts and papers presented at the December 2009 Meeting. Abstracts of the papers will also be published in subject-specific journals within FEN and, where appropriate, in the journals of our sister networks.

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Conference URL: http://www.en.affi.asso.fr/200-december-2009.htm

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Announcing Third Singapore International Conference on Finance 2009 Abstracting eJournal

In cooperation with the Saw Centre for Financial Studies, the Financial Economics Network (FEN) is pleased to announce the Third Singapore International Conference on Finance 2009 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.

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The Third Singapore International Conference on Finance is an international conference that brings together high quality papers on corporate finance, asset pricing, corporate governance, institutional trading and banking. The conference presents an excellent opportunity for practitioners and researchers in financial institutions and universities to discuss and exchange ideas on the latest developments in the field of finance. 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 FEN and, where appropriate, in the journals of our sister networks. (View full announcement)

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European Banking Center of Tilburg University Joins FEN Research Paper Series

We are pleased to announce that the European Banking Center of Tilburg University has started a Finance Research Centers Research Paper Series within the Financial Economics Network (FEN).

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EBC, the European Banking Center of Tilburg University, is home to a number of researchers who work in the area of banking and finance. Its research covers a wide range of topics, from monetary policy over bank regulation and supervision, corporate finance to international banking. (View full announcement)

Darden Business Publishing Upgrades Its MRN Case & Teaching Series

We are pleased to announce that Darden Business Publishing has upgraded its Case & Teaching Series within the Management Research Network (MRN).

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Representing a broad range of business issues across numerous industries and companies, Darden Business Publishing provides both instructors and corporate trainers with an extensive selection of teaching materials authored by Darden faculty. Darden cases are often accompanied by teaching notes, spreadsheets, videos, and CD-ROMs to enhance the classroom learning experience. To order this case by mail, contact a Darden Business Publishing representative by e-mail at sales@dardenbusinesspublishing.com. Please give the UVA-XXX-XXXX case number shown with each abstract and please mention that you saw it on SSRN. Register as a faculty member at Darden Business Publishing Online to preview all Darden cases and corresponding teaching notes. (View full announcement)

Expanded ARN Subject Matter eJournals

We are pleased to announce the expansion of the Accounting Research Network (ARN) Subject Matter eJournals with the following 8 new eJournals:

• Accounting Technology & Information Systems
• Accounting, Corporate Governance, Law, & Institutions
• Applied Accounting – Practitioner
• Demographics, Gender, & Diversity Accounting
• Forensic Accounting
• Governmental & Nonprofit Accounting
• International Accounting
• Research Methods & Methodology in Accounting

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