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Weekly Announcements – May 22, 2013

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Announcing IICM 2012 11th Indian Institute of Capital Markets Conference Online Proceedings on SSRN In cooperation with the Indian Institute of Capital Markets, the Financial Economics Network (FEN) is pleased to announce the IICM 2012 11th Indian Institute of Capital Markets Conference. The proceedings are available to all [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 3, 2013

1. Feeling Good About Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-Interested Charitable Behavior by Lalin Anik (Harvard Business School) and Lara Aknin (University of British Columbia) and Michael Norton (Harvard Business School) and Elizabeth Dunn (University of British Columbia – Department of Psychology) 2. The ‘IKEA Effect’: When Labor Leads to Love by Michael Norton [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – April 19, 2013

1. Do Defaults Save Lives? by Eric Johnson (Columbia Business School – Marketing) and Daniel Goldstein (Microsoft Research New York City) 2. The Dangers of Surveillance by Neil M. Richards (Washington University in Saint Louis – School of Law) 3. The Dishonesty of Honest People: A Theory of Self-Concept Maintenance by Nina Mazar (University of [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – April 12, 2013

1. Do Defaults Save Lives? by Eric Johnson (Columbia Business School – Marketing) and Daniel Goldstein (Microsoft Research New York City) 2. The Storrs Lectures: Behavioral Economics and Paternalism by Cass Sunstein (Harvard Law School) 3. The Dangers of Surveillance by Neil M. Richards (Washington University in Saint Louis – School of Law) 4. What [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – April 5, 2013

1. Do Defaults Save Lives? by Eric Johnson (Columbia Business School – Marketing) and Daniel Goldstein (Microsoft Research New York City) 2. The Storrs Lectures: Behavioral Economics and Paternalism by Cass Sunstein (Harvard Law School) 3. The Dangers of Surveillance by Neil M. Richards (Washington University in Saint Louis – School of Law) 4. What [...]
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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 – December 28, 2012

1. Multiple Victim Public Shootings, Bombings, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handgun Laws: Contrasting Private and Public Law Enforcement by John Lott (University of Maryland Foundation) and William Landes (University of Chicago Law School) 2. Top Marginal Effective Tax Rates by State and by Source of Income, 2012 Tax Law vs. 2013 Scheduled Tax Law by Gerald [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – August 10, 2012

1. What is Marriage? by Sherif Girgis (Princeton University Department of Philosophy) and Robert George (Princeton University – Department of Politics) and Ryan Anderson (University of Notre Dame Department of Political Science) 2. E-Books in Libraries: A Briefing Document Developed in Preparation for a Workshop on E-Lending in Libraries by David O’Brien (Harvard University – [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – August 3, 2012

1. Valuing Companies by Cash Flow Discounting: Fundamental Relationships and Unnecessary Complications by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) 2. Just Post It: The Lesson from Two Cases of Fabricated Data Detected by Statistics Alone by Uri Simonsohn (University of Pennsylvania – The Wharton School) 3. E-Books in Libraries: A Briefing Document [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 4, 2012

1. Ten Badly Explained Topics in Most Corporate Finance Books by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) 2. Conspiracy Theories by Cass Sunstein (Harvard Law School) and Adrian Vermeule (Harvard Law School) 3. Value Investing: Investing for Grown Ups? by Aswath Damodaran (New York University – Stern School of Business) 4. A [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – July 22, 2011

1. What is Marriage? by Sherif Girgis (Princeton University Department of Philosophy) and Robert George (Princeton University – Department of Politics) and Ryan T. Anderson (University of Notre Dame Department of Political Science) 2. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 3. A Generation of Software Patents by [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – July 15, 2011

1. Government Size and Growth: A Survey and Interpretation of the Evidence by Andreas Bergh (Lund University – Department of Economics; Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)) and Magnus Henrekson (Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)) 2. What is Marriage? by Sherif Girgis (Princeton University Department of Philosophy) and Robert George (Princeton University – Department [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – July 8, 2011

1. The Tragedy of the Risk-Perception Commons: Culture Conflict, Rationality Conflict, and Climate Change by Dan M. Kahan (Yale University – Law School; Harvard Law School) and Maggie Wittlin (Yale University – Law School) and Ellen Peters (Psychology Department; Decision Research; University of Oregon) and Paul Slovic (Decision Research; University of Oregon – Department of [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 6, 2011

1. Why Do Humans Reason? Arguments for an Argumentative Theory by Hugo Mercier (University of Pennsylvania) and Dan Sperber 2. Market Risk Premium Used in 56 Countries in 2011: A Survey with 6,014 Answers by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) and Javier Aguirreamalloa and Luis Corres Avendaño (IESE) 3. What is [...]
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Weekly Announcements – July 26, 2010

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: University of New Mexico School of Law Joins LSN Legal Studies Research Paper Series We are pleased to announce that University of New Mexico School of Law has started a Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies series within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN). UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – June 4, 2010

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending June 4, 2010: 1. Arizona Senate Bill 1070: A Preliminary Report by Gabriel J. Chin (University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law; University of Arizona School of Government and Public Policy) and Carissa Byrne Hessick (Arizona State, Sandra [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – April 16, 2010

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending April 16, 2010: 1. Choice Architecture by Richard H. Thaler (University of Chicago – Booth School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)) and Cass R. Sunstein (Harvard University – Harvard Law School) and John P. Balz (University of [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – February 19, 2010

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending February 19, 2010: 1. The Copenhagen Conference – A Post-Mortem by Daniel Bodansky (University of Georgia Law School) 2. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 3. Economists, Crises and Cartoons by David [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – February 12, 2010

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending February 12, 2010: 1. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 2. Underwater and Not Walking Away: Shame, Fear and the Social Management of the Housing Crisis by Brent T. White (University of [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – January 29, 2010

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending January 29, 2010: 1. Underwater and Not Walking Away: Shame, Fear and the Social Management of the Housing Crisis by Brent T. White (University of Arizona – James E. Rogers College of Law) 2. Conspiracy Theories by Cass R. Sunstein [...]
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