1. The Perfect Crime
by Brian Kalt (Michigan State University College of Law)

2. Engineering an Orderly Greek Debt Restructuring
by G. Gulati (Duke University – School of Law) and Jeromin Zettelmeyer (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD))

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

4. Getting up to Speed on the Financial Crisis: A One-Weekend-Reader’s Guide
by Gary Gorton (Yale School of Management) and Andrew Metrick (Yale School of Management)

5. Reading About the Financial Crisis: A 21-Book Review
by Andrew Lo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Sloan School of Management)

1. Reading About the Financial Crisis: A 21-Book Review
by Andrew Lo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Sloan School of Management)

2. Getting up to Speed on the Financial Crisis: A One-Weekend-Reader’s Guide
by Gary Gorton (Yale School of Management) and Andrew Metrick (Yale School of Management)

3. Investor Information Demand: Evidence from Google Searches Around Earnings Announcements
by Darren Roulstone (Ohio State University (OSU) – Fisher College of Business) and Michael Drake (Brigham Young University – Marriott School) and Jacob Thornock (University of Washington – Michael G. Foster School of Business)

4. Race, Attorney Influence, and Bankruptcy Chapter Choice
by Jean Braucher (University of Arizona – James E. Rogers College of Law) and Dov Cohen (University of Illinois) and Robert Lawless (University of Illinois College of Law)

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

1. 100 Questions on Finance
by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School)

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

3. Don’t Break the Internet
by Mark Lemley (Stanford Law School) and David Levine (Elon University School of Law ) and David Post (Temple University School of Law)

4. Reading About the Financial Crisis: A 21-Book Review
by Andrew Lo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Sloan School of Management)

5. Encryption and Globalization
by Peter Swire (Moritz College of Law of the Ohio State University) and Kenesa Ahmad

1. Adaptive Markets and the New World Order
by Andrew Lo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Sloan School of Management)

2. My Life in Finance
by Eugene Fama (University of Chicago – Booth School of Business (Finance Authors))

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

4. Measuring Rates of Return for Lobbying Expenditures: An Empirical Analysis under the American Jobs Creation Act
by Raquel Alexander (University of Kansas – School of Business) and Stephen Mazza (University of Kansas – School of Law) and Susan Scholz (University of Kansas – Accounting and Information Systems Area)

5. The Promise and Success of Lab-Field Generalizability in Experimental Economics: A Critical Reply to Levitt and List
by Colin Camerer (California Institute of Technology – Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences)

by Monica Billio (Ca Foscari University of Venice – Department of Economics) and Loriana Pelizzon (University of Venice – Department of Economics) and Andrew Lo (MIT Sloan School of Management) and Mila Getmansky (University of Massachusetts at Amherst – Eugene M. Isenberg School of Management – Department of Finance & Operations Management )

by Herbert J. Hovenkamp (University of Iowa – College of Law)

by Herbert J. Hovenkamp (University of Iowa – College of Law)

by Herbert J. Hovenkamp (University of Iowa – College of Law)

by Herbert J. Hovenkamp (University of Iowa – College of Law)

by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management)

by Dan Kahan (Yale University – Law School)

by Andrew Lo (MIT Sloan School of Management)

by Dennis Crouch (University of Missouri School of Law) and Robert Merges (University of California, Berkeley – School of Law)

by Kevin Murphy (University of Southern California – Marshall School of Business) and Michael Jensen (Harvard Business School)

by Rafael Leal-Arcas (Queen Mary University of London, School of Law)

by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management)

by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School)

by Michael Jensen (Harvard Business School) and William Meckling (Simon School, University of Rochester (Deceased))

by Andrew Lo (MIT Sloan School of Management)

1. 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)

2. Bitcoin: An Innovative Alternative Digital Currency
by Reuben Grinberg (Yale Law School)

3. Reevaluating Standardized Insurance Policies
by Daniel Schwarcz (University of Minnesota Law School)

4. The Equity Premium in Spain: Survey 2011 (in Spanish)
by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) and Javier Aguirreamalloa
and Luis Corres Avendaño (IESE)

5. Strength in Numbers: How Does Data-Driven Decisionmaking Affect Firm Performance?
by Erik Brynjolfsson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Sloan School of Management; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)) and Lorin M. Hitt (University of Pennsylvania – The Wharton School) and Heekyung Hellen Kim (MIT – Sloan School of Management)

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I was at MIT a few days ago and had the opportunity to participate in Erik Brynjolfsson‘s class at Sloan School of Management. It was a fun class.  We discussed the early days of SSRN, bundled services, and electronic resources in general. During the conversation, I asked the MBA students if they knew where the library was and received many blank stares.  Maybe it was because MIT has a a lot of them, but more likely it was the fact that students’ relationships with their library has changed.

While the gap between students and stacks continues to grow, several libraries are building bridges. Personal Librarian Programs are being rolled out by a small number of universities across the country, including Drexel University and Yale. Essentially, these programs assign incoming students a personal librarian to serve as a direct access point in the library.  I haven’t looked at it from a cost perspective but from a customer service perspective, I think it is great.

Today, many of us understand and appreciate the overwhelming abundance of information available at our fingertips.  There is too much content to consume and crucial educational resources can get lost in the pile.  Librarians have a wealth of knowledge and specifically know:

• How to research & evaluate content
• How to use different resources for different purposes
• How to determine validity and appropriation
• How to think critically

Several months ago I spoke with Susan Gibbons, a forward-thinking librarian from the University of Rochester. She understands the challenge and provided some insight into how she has been able to enrich and simplify students’ experience at the UR library.  One idea that stuck with me was noting the library’s front desk phone numbers at the end of each stack, allowing students to get help immediately.

In addition to valuing libraries by their resources, Susan explained that important learning functions like camaraderie and group work are also fostered by the library structure.  Building learning communities is one of a library’s most important core missions.

For Susan’s view of the future, watch the video below:

Earlier in the day at MIT I had a conversation with a librarian and asked if students knew where to find the library. She replied, “Of course they know where it is, that’s where they go to sleep in between classes.”

I hope the Personal Librarian Programs and other initiatives are a success.  Students need to learn how to manage the overabundance of information today and it would be a shame for them to spend more time with their eyes closed than open in the library …

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:

Announcing New FEN Editor’s Choice eJournals

We are pleased to announce the following Financial Economics Network (FEN) Editor’s Choice eJournals — Finance Educator: Courses, Cases & Teaching (Editor’s Choice), and History of Finance (Editor’s Choice).

Finance Educator: Courses, Cases & Teaching (Editor’s Choice)
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Editors: Benjamin C. Esty, Harvard Business School, Michael J. Schill, University of Virginia – Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, and Kent L. Womack, Dartmouth College – Tuck School of Business

Description: The Finance Educator: Courses, Cases & Teaching Editor’s Choice abstracting eJournal distributes working papers and accepted paper abstracts that the Editor chooses to emphasize based on their own discretion or criteria. This eJournal allows the Editor to highlight papers that he or she believes are important for the profession. These papers may be distributed in this Editor’s Choice eJournal either before or after they appear in the regular all-inclusive eJournal. The Editor may choose to write an introduction to an issue that identifies a special collection of papers the Editor finds of interest, and he or she from time to time, may provide commentary on individual papers noting their special interest.

History of Finance (Editor’s Choice)
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Editor: Victor Ricciardi, Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

Description: History of Finance Editor’s Choice abstracting eJournal distributes working papers and accepted paper abstracts that the Editor chooses to emphasize based on their own discretion or criteria. This eJournal allows the Editor to highlight papers that he or she believes are important for the profession. These papers may be distributed in this Editor’s Choice eJournal either before or after they appear in the regular all-inclusive eJournal. The Editor may choose to write an introduction to an issue that identifies a special collection of papers the Editor finds of interest, and he or she from time to time, may provide commentary on individual papers noting their special interest.

Announcing New ERN Research Paper Series Journals

We are pleased to announce that NYU Wagner School of Public Service has started an ERN Public Policy Centers Research Papers series, and Norwegian School of Economics & Business Administration Department of Economics has started an Economics Departments Research Papers series within the Economics Research Network (ERN).

NYU WAGNER SCHOOL OF PUBLIC SERVICE
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The challenges of public service in the 21st century require thoughtful, innovative research programs designed to maximize both scholarly and public impact.

Wagner School faculty strive to produce and disseminate research that changes the way in which people frame, understand, analyze, manage, and act on public issues and policies of vital importance.

NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
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At NHH, the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, the first chairs in economics were created at its foundation in 1936. The Department of Economics itself was not established until 1951/52. From the beginning, a broad range of research interests were represented, and from the outset academic research has occupied a central place in the activities of the Department. Since the late 1960s, its members have been very active contributors to international economics journals. Many of them have also taken a strong interest in matters of economic policy, sometimes as members or experts on government committees, and sometimes as contributors to public debate about current economic issues.

Announcing ARN Editor’s Choice eJournals

We are pleased to announce the following Accounting Research Network (ARN) Editor’s Choice eJournals — Accounting Educator: Courses, Cases & Teaching (Editor’s Choice), Behavioral & Experimental Accounting (Editor’s Choice), Financial Accounting (Editor’s Choice), History of Accounting (Editor’s Choice), and Managerial Accounting (Editor’s Choice).

Accounting Educator: Courses, Cases & Teaching (Editor’s Choice)
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Editor: Ross L. Watts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Sloan School of Management

Description: The Accounting Educator: Courses, Cases & Teaching Editor’s Choice abstracting eJournal distributes working papers and accepted paper abstracts that the Editor chooses to emphasize based on their own discretion or criteria. This eJournal allows the Editor to highlight papers that he or she believes are important for the profession. These papers may be distributed in this Editor’s Choice eJournal either before or after they appear in the regular all-inclusive eJournal. The Editor may choose to write an introduction to an issue that identifies a special collection of papers the Editor finds of interest, and he or she from time to time, may provide commentary on individual papers noting their special interest.

Behavioral & Experimental Accounting (Editor’s Choice)
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Editor: Victor Ricciardi, Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

Description: The Behavioral & Experimental Accounting Editor’s Choice abstracting eJournal distributes working papers and accepted paper abstracts that the Editor chooses to emphasize based on their own discretion or criteria. This eJournal allows the Editor to highlight papers that he or she believes are important for the profession. These papers may be distributed in this Editor’s Choice eJournal either before or after they appear in the regular all-inclusive eJournal. The Editor may choose to write an introduction to an issue that identifies a special collection of papers the Editor finds of interest, and he or she from time to time, may provide commentary on individual papers noting their special interest.

Financial Accounting (Editor’s Choice)
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Editor: Ross L. Watts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Sloan School of Management

Description: The Financial Accounting Editor’s Choice abstracting eJournal distributes working papers and accepted paper abstracts that the Editor chooses to emphasize based on their own discretion or criteria. This eJournal allows the Editor to highlight papers that he or she believes are important for the profession. These papers may be distributed in this Editor’s Choice eJournal either before or after they appear in the regular all-inclusive eJournal. The Editor may choose to write an introduction to an issue that identifies a special collection of papers the Editor finds of interest, and he or she from time to time, may provide commentary on individual papers noting their special interest.

History of Accounting (Editor’s Choice)
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Editor: Victor Ricciardi, Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

Description: The History of Accounting Editor’s Choice abstracting eJournal distributes working papers and accepted paper abstracts that the Editor chooses to emphasize based on their own discretion or criteria. This eJournal allows the Editor to highlight papers that he or she believes are important for the profession. These papers may be distributed in this Editor’s Choice eJournal either before or after they appear in the regular all-inclusive eJournal. The Editor may choose to write an introduction to an issue that identifies a special collection of papers the Editor finds of interest, and he or she from time to time, may provide commentary on individual papers noting their special interest.

Managerial Accounting (Editor’s Choice)
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Editor: Ross L. Watts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Sloan School of Management

Description: The Managerial Accounting Editor’s Choice abstracting eJournal distributes working papers and accepted paper abstracts that the Editor chooses to emphasize based on their own discretion or criteria. This eJournal allows the Editor to highlight papers that he or she believes are important for the profession. These papers may be distributed in this Editor’s Choice eJournal either before or after they appear in the regular all-inclusive eJournal. The Editor may choose to write an introduction to an issue that identifies a special collection of papers the Editor finds of interest, and he or she from time to time, may provide commentary on individual papers noting their special interest.