Tag Archives: SSRN Links

Information Overabundance: What We Don’t Know, We Don’t Know

A few months ago, Peter Shepherd, Project Director at Project COUNTER, asked me to contribute an article to Against The Grain (librarians, publishers and vendors) for their Special Issue on Metrics – The Importance of Being Measured. I wrote about article level metrics at SSRN and how we view the changing world of information overabundance.  [...]
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Weekly Announcements – November 15, 2010

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Journal of Investment Consulting Joins FEN Partners in Publishing Journals We are pleased to announce that the Journal of Investment Consulting has joined our Financial Economics Network (FEN) Partners in Publishing Journals. JOURNAL OF INVESTMENT CONSULTING View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Journal-Investment-Consulting.html The Journal of Investment Consulting keeps investment management consultants [...]
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Weekly Announcements – November 8, 2010

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Announcing 3 New LSN Research Paper Series Journals We are pleased to announce that a consortium of Nordic Business Schools and Universities has started Nordic & European Company Law, a Law Research Centers Papers series; University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, and University of Oslo Faculty of Law [...]
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Modern Finance – Past, Present and Future, 2010

I’m speaking at the Chicago Booth School of Business on Thursday, 4 November 2010 for the Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Forum 2010. Jason Zweig author, editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal will moderate the panel. The panel will also include Rodney Sullivan, CFA, head of publications for the CFA Institute and Daniel Giamouridis, Assistant [...]
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Weekly Announcements – October 25, 2010

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: UALR William H. Bowen School of Law Joins LSN Legal Studies Research Paper Series We are pleased to announce that University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) William H. Bowen School of Law has started a Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies series within the Legal Scholarship [...]
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Open Access

It’s  Open Access Week. OAW is an international gathering of the minds focused on creating awareness of free, immediate and online access of scholarly research. I will finish celebrating the week at the University at Buffalo tomorrow (Friday, 10/22) with a presentation – Critical Mass is Critical: A View Into the Changing World of Scholarly [...]
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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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