Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:

Western New England University Upgrades Its Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies Series

We are pleased to announce Western New England University School of Law has upgraded its basic series to a full series, within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN), Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies.

WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW LEGAL STUDIES RESEARCH PAPER SERIES
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The Western New England University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series journal contains abstracts and research papers of the Western New England University School of Law faculty. Founded in 1919 as part of the Springfield Division of Northeastern University and incorporated as part of Western New England University in 1951, the School of Law has grown and matured into an institution known for providing a legal education that emphasizes a blending of theoretical and practical learning.

Announcing 4 New MRN Organizational Behavior Subject Matter eJournals

We are pleased to announce four new MRN Organizational Behavior Research Network (ORG) Subject Matter eJournals:
Innovation & Organizational Behavior eJournal;
Interorganizational Networks & Organizational Behavior eJournal;
Public Sector Strategy & Organizational Behavior eJournal; and
Strategy & Organizational Behavior eJournal.

INNOVATION & ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR eJOURNAL
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Editor: David C. Logan (University of Southern California – Marshall School of Business, and CultureSync)

Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts that focus on innovation and organizational behavior. The research in the eJournal includes both historical and contemporary research pertaining to innovation and organizational behavior. Submitted papers may be conceptual or empirical in nature and may address any of the phases of the innovation process, including development, adoption, resistance, implementation, and diffusion. The purpose of the eJournal is to enhance understanding of how and why individuals acting in organizations influence innovation.

INTERORGANIZATIONAL NETWORKS & ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR eJOURNAL
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Editor: David C. Logan (University of Southern California – Marshall School of Business, and CultureSync)

Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts that focus on interorganizational networks and organizational behavior. Submitted papers may be conceptual or empirical in nature. The purpose of this eJournal is to enhance understanding of the impact of interorganizational network structures on the individuals who work within those structures as well as the consequences of the actions taken by those individuals on organizational outcomes and effectiveness. Interorganizational networks can support or constrain individual behavior in organizations and may be viewed from multiple perspectives including, but not limited to, theories related to resource dependence and access, trust, power and control, and signaling.

PUBLIC SECTOR STRATEGY & ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR eJOURNAL
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Editor: David C. Logan (University of Southern California – Marshall School of Business, and CultureSync)

Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts that focus on strategy in relation to organizational behavior within the public sector, including nonprofit organizations, governments and governmental agencies, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, modes of strategy, execution of strategy, and evaluation of the results of strategic actions.

STRATEGY & ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR eJOURNAL
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Editor: David C. Logan (University of Southern California – Marshall School of Business, and CultureSync)

Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts that focus on competitive strategy in relation to organizational behavior within the for-profit sector.

NBER Announces Free Access to Papers Older than Three Years

SSRN partners with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) to provide access to their research and we are happy to share the NBER’s recent announcement below.

Effective January 1, 2012, all NBER working papers that were distributed prior to a three year “moving wall” are available for open access on the NBER website. They are also available at no charge through SSRN.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact UserSupport@SSRN.com.

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

1. Keynote Address – Identifying and Managing Systemic Risk: An Assessment of Our Progress
by Steven L. Schwarcz (Duke University – School of Law)

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

3. Book Review: Stephen Hopgood, ‘Keepers of the Flame: Understanding Amnesty International’
by Kenneth Anderson (Washington College of Law, American University; Stanford University – The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace; Brookings Institution – Governance Studies)

4. What is Originalism? The Evolution of Contemporary Originalist Theory
by Lawrence B. Solum (University of Illinois College of Law)

5. Institutional Investors and Stock Market Volatility
by Xavier Gabaix (New York University – Stern School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)) and Parameswaran Gopikrishnan (Boston University – Center for Polymer Studies) and Vasiliki Plerou (Boston University – Center for Polymer Studies) and H. Eugene Stanley (Boston University – Center for Polymer Studies)

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)

1. A Dysfunctional Role of High Frequency Trading in Electronic Markets
by Robert A. Jarrow (Cornell University – Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
) and Philip Protter (affiliation not provided to SSRN)

2. 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)

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

4. The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Methodology and Analytical Issues
by Daniel Kaufmann (The Brookings Institution) and Aart Kraay (World Bank – Development Research Group (DECRG)) and Massimo Mastruzzi (World Bank Institute)

5. Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure
by Michael C. Jensen (Harvard Business School; Social Science Electronic Publishing (SSEP), Inc.; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)) and William H. Meckling (Simon School, University of Rochester (Deceased))

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
by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management)

3. 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)

4. Measuring Flow Toxicity in a High Frequency World
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)

5. The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Methodology and Analytical Issues
by Daniel Kaufmann (The Brookings Institution) and Aart Kraay (World Bank – Development Research Group (DECRG)) and Massimo Mastruzzi (World Bank Institute)

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. Two Faces: Demystifying the Mortgage Electronic Registration System’s Land Title Theory
by Christopher Lewis Peterson (University of Utah – S.J. Quinney College of Law)

3. Expenditure Cascades
by Adam Seth Levine (Vanderbilt University
) and Robert H. Frank (Cornell University – Department of Economics) and Oege Dijk (European University Institute – Economics Department (ECO); Bocconi University – Department of Economics (DEP))

4. Explaining the Housing Bubble
by Adam J. Levitin (Georgetown University Law Center) and Susan M. Wachter (University of Pennsylvania – The Wharton School – Real Estate Department)

5. Deposition Tricks: The Dirty Dozen
by Neil Joel Dilloff (University of Baltimore – School of Law)

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

2. The Federal Circuit and Inequitable Conduct: An Empirical Assessment
by Lee Petherbridge (Loyola Law School Los Angeles) and Jason Rantanen (University of California, San Francisco – Hastings College of the Law) and Ali Mojibi (United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit)

3. Macroeconomics after the Crisis: Time to Deal with the Pretense-of-Knowledge Syndrome
by Ricardo J. Caballero (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER))

4. Regulating the Shadow Banking System
by Gary B. Gorton (Yale School of Management; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)) and Andrew Metrick (Yale School of Management; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER))

5. The Longer Tail: The Changing Shape of Amazon’s Sales Distribution Curve
by Erik Brynjolfsson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Sloan School of Management; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)) and Yu Jeffrey Hu (Purdue University – Krannert School of Management) and Michael D. Smith (Carnegie Mellon University – H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management)

1. Gender and Philosophical Intuition
by Wesley Buckwalter (CUNY The Graduate Center) and Stephen Stich (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; University of Sheffield)

2. Empirical Limitations on High Frequency Trading Profitability
by Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania) and Alex Kulesza (University of Pennsylvania) and Yuriy Nevmyvaka (University of Pennsylvania)

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

4. Regulating the Shadow Banking System
by Gary B. Gorton (Yale School of Management; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)) and Andrew Metrick (Yale School of Management; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER))

5. Risk Management: A Corporate Governance Manual
by Aswath Damodaran (New York University – Stern School of Business)

1. Regulating the Shadow Banking System
by Gary B. Gorton (Yale School of Management; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)) and Andrew Metrick (Yale School of Management; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER))

2. Commandeering the People: Why the Individual Health Insurance Mandate is Unconstitutional
by Randy E. Barnett (Georgetown University Law Center)

3. Scholarly Impact of Law School Faculties: Extending the Leiter Rankings to the Top 70
by Valerie Aggerbeck (University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota)) and Debby Hackerson (University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota)) and Gregory C. Sisk (University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota)) and Mary Wells (University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota))

4. The Razors-and-Blades Myth(s)
by Randal C. Picker (University of Chicago – Law School)

5. Cultural Cognition of Scientific Consensus
by Dan M. Kahan (Yale University – Law School) and Hank Jenkins-Smith (University of Oklahoma) and Donald Braman (Cultural Cognition Project; George Washington University – Law School)