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Legislative Repeal of Capital Punishment in New Jersey Online Proceedings

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On April 14, 2008, principal actors in the 25-year capital punishment drama gathered at Seton Hall Law School. The symposium reflected on the judicial, legislative, and popular efforts to sustain, limit, and ultimately abandon capital punishment. (View full announcement)

CASE - Center for Social & Economic Research Research Paper Series

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The CASE - Center for Social & Economic Research Research Paper Series contains abstracts and papers focused on the results of research in the broader field of social and economic studies and undertaken as part of research and technical assistance projects. (View full announcement)

Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship Growth & Renewal Research Paper Series

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The Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship Growth & Renewal at the University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business contains abstracts and papers from this institution focused on the areas of innovation, entrepreneurship, growth, and renewal. (View full announcement)

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Vermont Law School Research Paper Series

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The Vermont Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series contains a wide range of papers from scholars at the Vermont Law School. Vermont is particularly known for its work in Environmental Law and related subjects such as Natural Resources, Energy and Land Use, and papers on these topics are well represented. Vermont’s scholarship also embodies a diverse spectrum of additional doctrinal and interdisciplinary interests, and the papers in this series reflect this diversity as well. (View full announcement)

New ERN Subject Matter eJournal & 3 Expanded Subject Matter eJournals

We are pleased to announce a new Economics Research Network (ERN) Subject Matter eJournal — Game Theory & Bargaining Theory — as well as the expansion of three Subject Matter eJournals — Institutional & Transition Economics, Microeconomics, and Organizations & Markets. (View full announcement)

New Corporate Governance Network

CGN is sponsored by the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) Institute, whose mission is to provide thought leadership at the intersection of corporate responsibility and the informational needs of investors. While the Institute is a relatively new non-profit organization, formed with the proceeds of the sale of the Investor Responsibility Research Center in 2006, it continues the tradition and standards of objective research for which IRRC has been known since 1972. For more information, please see http://www.irrcinstitute.org.

CGN’s founding director is Lucian A. Bebchuk, William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance, and Director, Corporate Governance Program, Harvard University - Harvard Law School; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Research Associate, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI).(View full announcement)

Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference 2009 Abstracting eJournal

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The aim of this annual conference series is to improve our ability to answer the “big picture” questions and other related questions by engaging some of the world’s top researchers on competitive advantage in Atlanta for 3 days each year. You can browse abstracts and download the full text of all papers given at the Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference 2009 in the SSRN database. (View full announcement)

We are always announcing new Research Paper Series, Subject Matter eJournals, and other additions to the SSRN site. So, we thought it might be useful to include a weekly round-up each Thursday.

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Bloomberg ALPHA Research & Education Research Paper Series

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The Bloomberg ALPHA Research and Education Paper Series covers all subjects of interest for quantitative risk and portfolio management. The series is divided into Classroom and Frontiers. Classroom articles revisit well-established results under a consistent, highly rigorous, yet fully digest-able perspective. Frontiers articles explore new territories.
In particular, the first issue of this series covers the Black-Litterman methodology, its enhancements, and its generalizations. (View full announcement)

9th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language (CSDL9) Online Proceedings

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CSDL features presentations in the fields of cognitive linguistics, functional linguistics, discourse, corpus linguistics, and speech & language processing by scholars exploring the interface between language and cognition. The theme of CSDL 9 is “Meaning, Form, and Body.” The focus is on two central, related research areas in the study of language:

1. The integration of form and meaning, and
2. Language and the human body.

These topics intersect naturally, as in the study of grammatical constructions, of conceptual integration, and of gesture. (View full announcement)

ERN Randomized Social Experiments Abstracting eJournal

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Randomized Social Experiments includes, but is not limited to, field studies of social programs in which the behavior of individuals, households, or (in rare instances) firms or organizations is examined subject to a protocol which includes:

1. Random assignment: Creation of at least two groups of human subjects who differ from one another by chance alone;
2. Policy intervention: A set of actions ensuring that different incentives, opportunities, or constraints confront the members of each of the randomly assigned groups in their daily lives;
3. Follow-up data collection: Measurement of various outcomes for members of each group; and
4. Evaluation: Application of statistical inference and informed professional judgment about the degree to which the policy interventions have caused differences in outcomes between the groups.

Randomized Social Experiments will also contain information on certain studies that would be excluded from the above definition because they do not involve social policy interventions, and therefore expands on the Digest. (View full announcement)