Tag Archives: SSRN Links

Weekly Announcements – June 30, 2009

Here is the latest announcement from SSRN: Massey University College of Business Joins MRN Research Paper Series We are pleased to announce that Massey University College of Business has started a Business School Research Paper Series within the Management Research Network (MRN). View Papers: http://http://www.ssrn.com/link/Massey-U-Business.html Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=Massey-U-Business Among New Zealand universities, Massey University is unique. [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – June 26, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending June 26, 2009: 1. Are Stocks Really Less Volatile in the Long Run? by Lubos Pastor (University of Chicago – Booth School of Business; Centre for Economic Policy Research; National Bureau of Economic Research) and Robert F. Stambaugh (University of [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – June 19, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending June 19, 2009: 1. Betas Used by Companies and Professors in Europe: A Survey by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) and Vicente J. Bermejo (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) 2. A Quantitative Approach to [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – June 12, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending June 12, 2009: 1. How to Read a Legal Opinion: A Guide for New Law Students by Orin S. Kerr (George Washington University – Law School) 2. Regulating Bankers’ Pay by Lucian A. Bebchuk (Harvard University – Harvard Law School; [...]
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Differing Views of Social Media

Richard Stacy had an interesting blog post about journalism and the sanctity of publication. In this post he discusses the indignant attitude of journalists as it relates to the social media and how traditional journalists view traditional publications as the only forms of discourse to be valued. I am excited that we are seeing a [...]
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Re-innovating at SSRN

When I look at the SSRN Community, I am excited and motivated by the challenges and possibilities in front of us.  We need to be innovative and responsive to the changing needs of our community, but have to deal with the harsh realities of a terrible economy and limited development resources. However, I hope we [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – June 5, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending June 5, 2009: 1. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 2. Slapped in the Face by the Invisible Hand: Banking and the Panic of 2007 by Gary B. Gorton (Yale School of [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 29, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending May 29, 2009: 1. Betas Used by Professors: A Survey with 2,500 Answers 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. Slapped [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 22, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending May 22, 2009: 1. Slapped in the Face by the Invisible Hand: Banking and the Panic of 2007 by Gary B. Gorton (Yale School of Management; National Bureau of Economic Research) 2. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 15, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending May 15, 2009: 1. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 2. Buying Troubled Assets by Lucian A. Bebchuk (Harvard University – Harvard Law School; National Bureau of Economic Research; European Corporate Governance [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 8, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending May 8, 2009: 1. Too Big to Fail, Hidden Risks, and the Fallacy of Large Institutions by Charles S. Tapiero (NYU-Poly Institute) and Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NYU-Poly Institute) 2. Interrogation’s Law by William Ranney Levi (Yale University – Law School) [...]
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SSRN joins Twitter, Facebook, & LinkedIn

Today’s post was originally going to be a quick one describing what we are doing with “social networking” and how to follow us.  It still includes instructions below, but I was reviewing my notes from Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody for my AACSB presentation last week and realized a couple of fairly obvious points. First, [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 1, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending May 1, 2009: 1. Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Cost and Ownership Structure by Michael C. Jensen (Harvard Business School; The Monitor Company; Social Science Electronic Publishing) and William H. Meckling (University of Rochester Simon School [deceased]) 2. [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – April 24, 2009

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 [...]
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SSRN at AACSB April 26-28

Gregg Gordon (President/CEO) and Diane Baltadonis (Director of Sales & Marketing) will be attending the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International Conference and Annual Meeting, April 26-28 in Orlando, FL. Gregg will be presenting a session entitled “The Future of Scholarly Publishing”, which will offer insight into trends, technologies and advances associated [...]
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Welcome

Welcome to the SSRN Blog, the official blog of the Social Science Research Network. Since its start in 1994, SSRN has grown significantly — we currently have 18 focused research networks, more than 200,000 papers in the eLibrary, and surpassed 25 million total downloads in December (the number is now more than 27 million). As [...]
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