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Weekly Announcements – August 10, 2010

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Announcing 17th Conference on the Theories & Practices of Securities & Financial Markets on SSRN In cooperation with the National Sun Yat-Sen University, the Financial Economics Network (FEN) is pleased to announce the 17th Conference on the Theories and Practices of Securities and Financial Markets Online Proceedings. These [...]
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Research to Consider: The NFL’s Draft is Broken

via The highly anticipated National Football League Draft begins tomorrow evening (4/22/10) and, for the first time, will be televised during prime time on ESPN and NFL Network.  This is the NFL’s most important off-season event and followed closely by fans around the world.  But, two scholars suggest the process is flawed because teams significantly [...]
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APE 2010: What We Don’t Know We Don’t Know

Earlier this year I had the pleasure of speaking at Academic Publishing Europe (APE 2010) at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences about article level metrics.  APE 2010 was a very interesting conference with a wonderfully diverse audience.  The sharing was open and the discussions were quite frank, especially considering the number of competitors in the [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – October 2, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending October 2, 2009: 1. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 2. Patent Claim Construction: A Modern Synthesis and Structured Framework by Peter S. Menell (University of California, Berkeley – School of Law) [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – September 25, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending September 25, 2009: 1. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 2. Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization by Paul Ohm (University of Colorado Law School) 3. A [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – September 18, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending September 18, 2009: 1. Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization by Paul Ohm (University of Colorado Law School) 2. The Equity Premium in 150 Textbooks by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – September 11, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending September 11, 2009: 1. Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization by Paul Ohm (University of Colorado Law School) 2. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 3. The [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – September 4, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending September 4, 2009: 1. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 2. Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure by Michael C. Jensen (Harvard Business School; The Monitor Company; [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – August 28, 2009

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 [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – August 21, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending August 21, 2009: 1. Heller High Water(Mark?) Lower Courts and the New Right to Keep and Bear Arms by Brannon P. Denning (Cumberland School of Law) and Glenn Harlan Reynolds (University of Tennessee College of Law) 2. A Quantitative Approach [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – August 14, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending August 14, 2009: 1. Flash Cookies and Privacy by Ashkan Soltani (University of California, Berkeley – School of Information) and Shannon Canty (Clemson University) and Quentin Mayo (Jacksonville State University) and Lauren Thomas (Louisiana State University) and Chris Jay Hoofnagle [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – August 7, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending August 7, 2009: 1. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 2. “I’ve Got Nothing to Hide” and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy by Daniel J. Solove (George Washington University Law School) 3. Governance [...]
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Recent SSRN Development Project – eLibrary Viewer

One of the biggest challenges in scholarly research today is wading through the growing mountain of content. We fully acknowledge there is an overabundance of information in scholarly research today and are working hard to make searching and sifting through the content contained in our eLibrary much easier. Since we received ~50,000 submissions last year, [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – July 31, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending July 31, 2009: 1. A Case of Insider Trading in Spain (in Spanish) by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) 2. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 3. Seven [...]
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Commenting Added to ERPN

Last month, we beta tested abstract “commenting” functionality on all abstracts in our Cognitive Science Network (CSN). With the initial success and positive feedback, we added the functionality to all abstracts in our Entrepreneurship Research and Policy Network (ERPN). This feature expands the possibilities and conversations based on scholarly research in the SSRN eLibrary. We [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – July 24, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending July 24, 2009: 1. The Unreasonableness of the Patent Office’s ‘Broadest Reasonable Interpretation’ Standard by Dawn-Marie Bey (King & Spalding LLP) and Christopher Anthony Cotropia (University of Richmond School of Law) 2. Distributed Security: A New Model of Law Enforcement [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – July 17, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending July 17, 2009: 1. Information for Submitting Articles to Law Reviews & Journals by Allen Rostron (University of Missouri at Kansas City – School of Law) and Nancy Levit (University of Missouri at Kansas City – School of Law) 2. [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – July 10, 2009

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 [...]
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Weekly Announcements – July 6, 2009

Here is the latest announcement from SSRN: Loyola University Chicago School of Law Joins LSN Research Paper Series We are pleased to announce that Loyola University Chicago School of Law has started a Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN). View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Loyola-U-PUB.html Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=Loyola-U-PUB First Issue: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/sample_issues/1410172_CMBO.html [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – July 3, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending July 3, 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 [...]
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