by H. Kenneth Cheng (University of Florida – Warrington College of Business Administration) and Yipeng Liu (University of Florida – Warrington College of Business Administration)

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

by Alice E. Marwick (Microsoft Corporation – Microsoft Research New England) and danah boyd (Microsoft Research)

by danah boyd (Microsoft Research) and Kate Crawford (University of New South Wales (UNSW))

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NYU-Poly)

1. Understanding the Effects of Violent Video Games on Violent Crime
by Scott Cunningham (Baylor University) and Benjamin Engelstätter (Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) – Information and Communication Technologies Research Group) and Michael R. Ward (University of Texas at Arlington – College of Business Administration – Department of Economics)

2. Therasense v. Becton Dickinson: A First Impression
by Jason Rantanen (University of Iowa – College of Law; University of California, Hastings – College of the Law) and Lee Petherbridge (Loyola Law School Los Angeles)

3. A Generation of Software Patents
by James E. Bessen (Research on Innovation; Boston University – School of Law)

4. A Guide to Starting Social Security Benefits
by Richard L. Kaplan (University of Illinois College of Law)

5. A Map and Simple Heuristic to Detect Fragility, Antifragility, and Model Error
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NYU-Poly)

1. ‘I’ve Got Nothing to Hide’ and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy
by Daniel J. Solove (George Washington University Law School)

2. Less than Picture Perfect: The Legal Relationship between Photographers’ Rights and Law Enforcement
by Morgan Leigh Manning (University of Tennessee, Knoxville – College of Law)

3. Divine Operating System
by Glenn Harlan Reynolds (University of Tennessee College of Law)

4. A Map and Simple Heuristic to Detect Fragility, Antifragility, and Model Error
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NYU-Poly)

5. How Businesses Fare with Daily Deals: A Multi-Site Analysis of Groupon, Livingsocial, Opentable, Travelzoo, and Buywithme Promotions
by Utpal M. Dholakia (Rice University – Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management)

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

2. The Future Has Thicker Tails than the Past: Model Error as Branching Counterfactuals
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NYU-Poly)

3. Persecution Perpetuated: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany
by Nico Voigtländer (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) – Anderson School of Management; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)) and Hans-Joachim Voth (Universitat Pompeu Fabra – Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR))

4. 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)

5. Why Do Humans Reason? Arguments for an Argumentative Theory
by Hugo Mercier (University of Pennsylvania) and Dan Sperber

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending September 10, 2010:

1. Detecting Deceptive Discussions in Conference Calls
by David F. Larcker (Stanford University – Graduate School of Business) and Anastasia A. Zakolyukina (Stanford Graduate School of Business)

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

3. A New ‘Risky’ World Order: Unstable Risk Premiums: Implications for Practice
by Aswath Damodaran (New York University – Stern School of Business)

4. Convexity, Robustness, and Model Error
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NYU-Poly)

5. Fallacies, Irrelevant Facts, and Myths in the Discussion of Capital Regulation: Why Bank Equity is Not Expensive
by Anat R. Admati (Stanford Graduate School of Business) and
Peter M. DeMarzo (Stanford Graduate School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)) and
Martin F. Hellwig (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods; Department of Economics, University of Bonn) and
Paul C. Pfleiderer (Stanford Graduate School of Business)

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending September 3, 2010:

1. Fundamentals of Intellectual Property: Cases & Materials
by Thomas G. Field Jr. (University of New Hampshire School of Law (formerly Franklin Pierce Law Center))

2. Detecting Deceptive Discussions in Conference Calls
by
David F. Larcker (Stanford University – Graduate School of Business) and Anastasia A. Zakolyukina (Stanford Graduate School of Business)

3. Convexity, Robustness, and Model Error
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NYU-Poly)

4. Why Did the Crisis of 2008 Happen?
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NYU-Poly)

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

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending July 9, 2010:

1. WACC: Definition, Misconceptions and Errors
by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School)

2. WACC: Definition and Errors
by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School)

3. Errors, Robustness, and the Fourth Quadrant
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NYU-Poly)

4. Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?
by Lauren Cohen (Harvard Business School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)) and Joshua D. Coval (Harvard Business School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)) and Christopher J. Malloy (Harvard Business School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER))

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

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending June 18, 2010:

1. Are State Public Pensions Sustainable? Why the Federal Government Should Worry About State Pension Liabilities
by Joshua D. Rauh (Northwestern University – Department of Finance; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER))

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 (The Brookings Institution) and Aart Kraay (World Bank – Development Research Group (DECRG)) 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 and Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NYU-Poly)

5. Global Warming Advocacy Science: A Cross Examination
by Jason Scott Johnston (University of Pennsylvania – Law School)

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])

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending July 10, 2009:

1. 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)

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

3. Heller and the Triumph of Originalist Judicial Engagement: A Response to Judge Harvie Wilkinson
by Alan Gura (Gura & Possessky, P.L.L.C.)

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. 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)