Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending July 23, 2010:

1. High Technology Entrepreneurs and the Patent System: Results of the 2008 Berkeley Patent Survey
by Stuart J. H. Graham (Georgia Institute of Technology – College of Management; University of California, Berkeley School of Law – BCLT) and Robert P. Merges (University of California, Berkeley – School of Law) and Pamela Samuelson (University of California, Berkeley – School of Law) and Ted M. Sichelman (University of San Diego School of Law)

2. The Dark Side of Bank Wholesale Funding
by Rocco Huang (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia; Wharton Financial Institutions Center) and Lev Ratnovski (International Monetary Fund)

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

4. Of Constitutional Decapitation and Healthcare
by Steven J. Willis (University of Florida – Fredric G. Levin College of Law) and Nakku Chung (University of Florida – Fredric G. Levin College of Law)

5. Overconfidence, Under-Reaction, and Warren Buffett’s Investments
by John S. Hughes (University of California at Los Angeles) and Jing Liu (University of California at Los Angeles) and Mingshan Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST))

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending April 24, 2009:

1. Best Ideas
by Randolph B. Cohen (Harvard Business School), Christopher K. Polk (London School of Economics), and Bernhard Silli

2. Green Jobs Myths
by Andrew P. Morriss (University of Illinois College of Law), William T. Bogart (York College of Pennsylvania), Andrew Dorchak (Case Western Reserve University Law Library), and Roger E. Meiners (University of Texas at Arlington)

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

4. Understanding the Subprime Mortgage Crisis
by Yuliya S. Demyanyk (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland) and Otto Van Hemert (New York University – Department of Finance)

5. Statutory Damages in Copyright Law: A Remedy in Need of Reform
by Pamela Samuelson (University of California, Berkeley – School of Law) and Tara Wheatland (University of California, Berkeley – School of Law)