Posts Tagged ‘Governance Matters VIII: Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators’

Weekly Top 5 Papers - September 25, 2009

Friday, September 25th, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending September 25, 2009:

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

2. Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization
by Paul Ohm (University of Colorado Law School)

3. A Quantitative Approach to Faber’s Tactical Asset Allocation
by Stefano Marmi (Scuola Normale Superiore) and Claudio Pacati (University of Siena - Department of Economics) and Wiston Adrián Risso (University of Siena - Department of Economics) and Roberto Renò (University of Siena - Department of Economics)

4. Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure
by Michael C. Jensen (Harvard Business School; The Monitor Company; Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc.) and William H. Meckling (University of Rochester Simon School [deceased])

5. 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)

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Weekly Top 5 Papers - September 18, 2009

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending September 18, 2009:

1. Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization
by Paul Ohm (University of Colorado Law School)

2. The Equity Premium in 150 Textbooks
by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra - IESE Business School)

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

4. Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure
by Michael C. Jensen (Harvard Business School; The Monitor Company; Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc.) and William H. Meckling (University of Rochester Simon School [deceased])

5. 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)

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Weekly Top 5 Papers - September 11, 2009

Friday, September 11th, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending September 11, 2009:

1. Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization
by Paul Ohm (University of Colorado Law School)

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

3. The Ethical Responsibility to Reduce Energy Consumption
by John C. Dernbach (Widener University - School of Law) and Donald A. Brown (Pennsylvania State University)

4. Anatomy of an Entrepreneur: Family Background and Motivation
by Vivek Wadhwa (Duke University - Pratt School of Engineering; Harvard University - Labor and Worklife Program) and Krisztina Holly (University of Southern California) and Raj Aggarwal (University of Akron - Department of Finance) and Alex Salkever (Duke University - Pratt School of Engineering)

5. 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)

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Weekly Top 5 Papers - August 28, 2009

Friday, August 28th, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending August 28, 2009:

1. Are You Smarter than a CFA’er?
by Oguzhan C. Dincer (Illinois State University) and Russell B. Gregory-Allen (Massey University - Department of Commerce) and Hany A. Shawky (SUNY at Albany - School of Business and Center for Institutional Investment Management)

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

3. 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)

4. Why We Have Never Used the Black-Scholes-Merton Option Pricing Formula (fifth version)
by Espen Gaarder Haug (affiliation not provided to SSRN) and Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NYU-Poly Institute)

5. Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure
by Michael C. Jensen (Harvard Business School; The Monitor Company; Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc.) and William H. Meckling (University of Rochester Simon School [deceased])

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