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 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)

4. Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure
by Michael C. Jensen (Harvard Business School; The Monitor Company; Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc.) and William H. Meckling (University of Rochester Simon School [deceased])

5. Understanding the Subprime Mortgage Crisis
by Yuliya S. Demyanyk (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland) and Otto Van Hemert (New York University – Department of Finance)

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 Sins of Fund Management
by James Montier (Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein – Global Equity Strategy)

4. Understanding the Subprime Mortgage Crisis
by Yuliya S. Demyanyk (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland) and Otto Van Hemert (New York University – Department of Finance)

5. 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)

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
by Susan W. Brenner (University of Dayton – School of Law) and Leo L. Clarke (Thomas M. Cooley Law School)

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

4. Understanding the Subprime Mortgage Crisis
by Yuliya S. Demyanyk (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland) and Otto Van Hemert (New York University – Department of Finance)

5. 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)

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 Management; National Bureau of Economic Research)

3. Understanding the Subprime Mortgage Crisis
by Yuliya S. Demyanyk (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland) and Otto Van Hemert (New York University – Department of Finance)

4. Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure
by Michael C. Jensen (Harvard Business School; The Monitor Company; Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc.) and William H. Meckling (University of Rochester Simon School [deceased])

5. Governance Matters VII: Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators, 1996-2007
by Daniel Kaufmann (Brookings Institution) and Aart Kraay (World Bank – Development Research Group) and Massimo Mastruzzi (World Bank Institute)

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 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)

4.Understanding the Subprime Mortgage Crisis
by Yuliya S. Demyanyk (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland) and Otto Van Hemert (New York University – Department of Finance)

5. Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure
by Michael C. Jensen (Harvard Business School; The Monitor Company; Social Science Electronic Publishing (SSEP), Inc.) and William H. Meckling (University of Rochester Simon School [deceased])

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

3. Understanding the Subprime Mortgage Crisis
by Yuliya S. Demyanyk (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland) and Otto Van Hemert (New York University – Department of Finance)

4. Luck versus Skill in the Cross Section of Mutual Fund Alpha Estimates
by Eugene F. Fama (University of Chicago – Booth School of Business) and Kenneth R. French (Dartmouth College – Tuck School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research)

5. Green Jobs Myths
by Andrew P. Morriss (University of Illinois College of Law), William T. Bogart (York College of Pennsylvania), Andrew Dorchak (Case Western Reserve University Law Library), and Roger E. Meiners (University of Texas at Arlington)

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 (York College of Pennsylvania), Andrew Dorchak (Case Western Reserve University Law Library), and Roger E. Meiners (University of Texas at Arlington)

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

4. Understanding the Subprime Mortgage Crisis
by Yuliya S. Demyanyk (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland) and Otto Van Hemert (New York University – Department of Finance)

5. Statutory Damages in Copyright Law: A Remedy in Need of Reform
by Pamela Samuelson (University of California, Berkeley – School of Law) and Tara Wheatland (University of California, Berkeley – School of Law)