1. 100 Questions on Finance
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. Don’t Break the Internet
by Mark Lemley (Stanford Law School) and David Levine (Elon University School of Law ) and David Post (Temple University School of Law)

4. Reading About the Financial Crisis: A 21-Book Review
by Andrew Lo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Sloan School of Management)

5. Encryption and Globalization
by Peter Swire (Moritz College of Law of the Ohio State University) and Kenesa Ahmad

1. Taking Note of Notes: Student Legal Scholarship in Theory and Practice
by Andrew Yaphe (Stanford Law School)

2. What is Marriage?
by Sherif Girgis (Princeton University Department of Philosophy) and Robert George (Princeton University – Department of Politics) and Ryan T. Anderson (University of Notre Dame Department of Political Science)

3. Female Ritual Healing in Mormonism
by Jonathan A. Stapley (affiliation not provided to SSRN) and Kristine Wright (affiliation not provided to SSRN)

4. The Fundamentals of Wealth Transfer Tax Planning: 2011 and Beyond
by John A. Miller (University of Idaho College of Law; University of Washington School of Law) and Jeffrey A. Maine (University of Maine School of Law)

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

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending August 20, 2010:

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

2. A New Anomaly: The Cross-Sectional Profitability of Technical Analysis
by Yufeng Han (University of Colorado at Denver – Business School) and Ke Yang (Washington University, Saint Louis) and Guofu Zhou (Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis)

3. 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 (University of California, Berkeley – School of Law, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology)

4. Is the Sky Falling on the Content Industries?
by
Mark A. Lemley (Stanford Law School)

5. ‘I’ve Got Nothing to Hide’ and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy
by Daniel J. Solove (George Washington University Law School)

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending August 13, 2010:

1. Is the Sky Falling on the Content Industries?
by
Mark A. Lemley (Stanford Law School)

2. Economists’ Hubris – The Case of Equity Asset Management
by
Shahin Shojai (Capco) and
George Feiger (Contango Capital Advisors) and
Rajesh Kumar (affiliation not provided to SSRN)

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

4. Relative Strength Strategies for Investing
by
Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management)

5. The Secret of My Success: How Status, Prestige and School Performance Shape Legal Careers
by
Richard H. Sander (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) – School of Law) and
Jane Yakowitz (Brooklyn Law School)

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending May 7, 2010:

1. Relative Strength Strategies for Investing
by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management)

2. Where to File Your Patent Case
by Mark A. Lemley (Stanford Law School)

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

4. Beyond Guilt in the Housing Crisis: The Morality of Strategic Default
by Brent T. White (University of Arizona – James E. Rogers College of Law)

5. Governance Matters VIII: Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators, 1996-2008
by Daniel Kaufmann (The Brookings Institution) and Aart Kraay (World Bank – Development Research Group (DECRG)) and Massimo Mastruzzi (World Bank Institute)

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:

Announcing Expansion of ERN Microeconomics Subject Matter eJournal

We are pleased to announce the expansion of Economics Research Network (ERN) Microeconomics: General Equilibrium & Disequilibrium into the following eJournals:

MICROECONOMICS: GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM & DISEQUILIBRIUM MODELS
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts of empirical and theoretical papers on macroeconomic models that emphasize microeconomic foundations using a “bottom-up” approach, starting with individual markets and agents. Included in this category are computable general equilibrium (CGE) models, a class of economic models that use actual economic data to estimate how an economy might react to changes in policy, technology or other external factors. The topics in this journal include topics D51, D52, D58 and D59 from Section D5 of the JEL classification system.

MICROECONOMICS: GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM & DISEQUILIBRIUM MODELS OF FINANCIAL MARKETS
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts of empirical and theoretical papers that includes the analysis of markets that allow people to buy and sell (trade) financial securities (such as stocks and bonds), commodities (such as precious metals or agricultural goods), and other fungible items of value at low transaction costs and at prices that may or may not be consistent with the efficient market hypothesis. The topics in this journal include topics D53 from Section D5 of the JEL classification system.

MICROECONOMICS: INPUT-OUTPUT TABLES & ANALYSIS
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts of empirical and theoretical papers that use the technique known as input-output tables to analyze and trace the flows of resources and products within an economy. The topics in this journal include topics D57 from Section D5 of the JEL classification system.

Announcing LSN Editor’s Choice eJournals

We are pleased to announce the following Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) Editor’s Choice eJournals — Law & Psychology (Editor’s Choice) sponsored by Cornell Law School, and Law & Economics (Editor’s Choice).

LAW & PSYCHOLOGY (EDITOR’S CHOICE)
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Editors: Valerie P. Hans, Cornell Law School, and Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Cornell Law School

Description: The Law & Psychology Editor’s Choice abstracting eJournal distributes working papers and accepted paper abstracts that the Editor chooses to emphasize based on their own discretion or criteria. This eJournal allows the Editor to highlight papers that he or she believes are important for the profession. These papers may be distributed in this Editor’s Choice eJournal either before or after they appear in the regular all-inclusive eJournal. The Editor may choose to write an introduction to an issue that identifies a special collection of papers the Editor finds of interest, and he or she from time to time, may provide commentary on individual papers noting their special interest.

LAW & ECONOMICS (EDITOR’S CHOICE)
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Editors: Ronald J. Gilson, Stanford Law School, Columbia Law School, and A. Mitchell Polinsky, Stanford Law School, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Description: The Law & Economics Editor’s Choice abstracting eJournal distributes working papers and accepted paper abstracts that the Editor chooses to emphasize based on their own discretion or criteria. This eJournal allows the Editor to highlight papers that he or she believes are important for the profession. These papers may be distributed in this Editor’s Choice eJournal either before or after they appear in the regular all-inclusive eJournal. The Editor may choose to write an introduction to an issue that identifies a special collection of papers the Editor finds of interest, and he or she from time to time, may provide commentary on individual papers noting their special interest.