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. Ten Badly Explained Topics in Most Corporate Finance Books
by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School)

3. Functional MRI in Awake Unrestrained Dogs
by Gregory Berns (Emory University) and Andrew Brooks (Emory University) and Mark Spivak

4. Value Investing: Investing for Grown Ups?
by Aswath Damodaran (New York University – Stern School of Business)

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

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

5. A Due Process Right to Record the Police
by Glenn Reynolds (University of Tennessee College of Law) and John Steakley

1. A Due Process Right to Record the Police
by Glenn Reynolds (University of Tennessee College of Law) and John Steakley

2. Value Investing: Investing for Grown Ups?
by Aswath Damodaran (New York University – Stern School of Business)

3. Managing the Risk of Momentum
by Pedro Barroso (Nova SBE) and Pedro Santa-Clara (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

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

5. Split or Steal? Cooperative Behavior When the Stakes are Large
by Martijn Van Den Assem (Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) – Erasmus School of Economics (ESE)) and Dennie Van Dolder (Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) – Erasmus School of Economics (ESE)) and Richard Thaler (University of Chicago – Booth School of Business)

1. There’s No There There: Low Tax Rates and Economic Growth
by Filip Spagnoli (National Bank of Belgium)

2. The Law Review Games
by Miriam Cherry (Saint Louis University – School of Law) and Paul Secunda (Marquette University – Law School)

3. Equity Risk Premiums (ERP): Determinants, Estimation and Implications – the 2012 Edition
by Aswath Damodaran (New York University – Stern School of Business)

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

5. The Uneasy Case for the Affordable Care Act
by Stephen Sachs (Duke University School of Law)

1. Binomial Options Pricing Has No Closed-Form Solution
by Evangelos Georgiadis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT))

2. Madoff’s Dirty Money
by Linus Wilson (University of Louisiana at Lafayette – College of Business Administration)

3. Equity Risk Premiums (ERP): Determinants, Estimation and Implications – The 2011 Edition
by Aswath Damodaran (New York University – Stern School of Business)

4. Bad News for Mail Robbers: The Obvious Constitutionality of Health Care Reform
by Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern University School of Law)

5. What Economists Know About Open Source Software – Its Basic Principles and Research Results
by Sebastian Von Engelhardt (University of Jena – Economics Department)

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending February 26, 2010:

1. Manufacturing Tail Risk: A Perspective on the Financial Crisis of 2007-09
by Viral V. Acharya (Stern School of Business; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)) and Thomas F. Cooley (Leonard N. Stern School of Business – Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)) and Matthew P. Richardson (New York University – Department of Finance; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)) and Ingo Walter (New York University – Stern School of Business)

2. An Empirical Study of the Role of the Written Description Requirement in Patent Prosecution
by Dennis D. Crouch (University of Missouri School of Law)

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

4. 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)

5. 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)

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending October 16, 2009:

1. Trust and Delegation
by Stephen J. Brown (NYU Stern School of Business) and William N. Goetzmann (Yale School of Management – International Center for Finance; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)) and Bing Liang (University of Massachusetts at Amherst – Department of Finance & Operations Management; Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) – China Academy of Financial Research) and Christopher Schwarz (University of California at Irvine)

2. Specific Knowledge and Divisional Performance Measurement
by Michael C. Jensen (Harvard Business School; Social Science Electronic Publishing (SSEP), Inc.) and William H. Meckling (University of Rochester Simon School (Deceased))

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

4. Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure
by Michael C. Jensen (Harvard Business School; Social Science Electronic Publishing (SSEP), Inc.) and William H. Meckling (University of Rochester Simon School (Deceased))

5. 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)