Tag Archives: Harvard University

Weekly Top 5 Papers – September 28, 2012

1. An Efficient Frontier for Retirement Income by Wade Pfau (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)) 2. The Charter and the Law of Work: A Beginner’s Guide by David Doorey (York University) 3. The Golden Dilemma by Claude Erb and Campbell Harvey (Duke University – Fuqua School of Business) 4. Why Do Good People [...]
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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 – July 27, 2012

1. Just Post It: The Lesson from Two Cases of Fabricated Data Detected by Statistics Alone by Uri Simonsohn (University of Pennsylvania – The Wharton School) 2. How to Read a Legal Opinion: A Guide for New Law Students by Orin Kerr (George Washington University – Law School) 3. Does the Shiller-PE Work in Emerging [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – March 2, 2012

1. Law Deans in Jail by Morgan Cloud (Emory University School of Law) and George Shepherd (Emory University School of Law) 2. Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information Quality by Urs Gasser (Harvard University – Berkman Center for Internet & Society) and Sandra Cortesi (Harvard University – Berkman Center for Internet & Society) [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – July 29, 2011

1. How to Read a Legal Opinion: A Guide for New Law Students by Orin Kerr (George Washington University – Law School) 2. Information for Submitting Articles to Law Reviews & Journals by Allen Rostron (University of Missouri at Kansas City – School of Law) and Nancy Levit (University of Missouri at Kansas City – [...]
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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 – March 18, 2011

1. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 2. The Microstructure of the ‘Flash Crash’: Flow Toxicity, Liquidity Crashes and the Probability of Informed Trading by David Easley (Cornell University – Department of Economics) and Marcos Mailoc Lopez de Prado (Tudor Investment Corp.; RCC at Harvard University) and [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – December 10, 2010

1. Creating Leaders: An Ontological Model by Werner Erhard (Independent) and Michael C. Jensen (Harvard Business School; Social Science Electronic Publishing (SSEP), Inc.; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)) and Kari L. Granger (Sunergos, LLC; Center For Character and Leadership Development, USAFA) 2. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – November 5, 2010

1. The Microstructure of the ‘Flash Crash’: Flow Toxicity, Liquidity Crashes and the Probability of Informed Trading by David Easley (Cornell University – Department of Economics) and Marcos Mailoc Lopez de Prado (Tudor Investment Corp.; RCC, Harvard University) and Maureen O’Hara (Cornell University – Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management) 2. A Quantitative Approach [...]
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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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Social Sciences’ “23 Hardest Problems”

Image via Wikipedia I received a call from Nick Nash, Indira Foundation, a few minutes ago telling me about a very interesting symposium tomorrow.  Harvard University’s Division of Social Science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences along with the Indira Foundation are convening a symposium of multidisciplinary experts to identify the world’s hardest unsolved [...]
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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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