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TOP 10 Papers for Entrepreneurship Research & Policy Network

January 2, 1997 to November 22, 2009



Rank Downloads Paper Title
1 18020 Governance Matters VI: Governance Indicators for 1996-2006
Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay, Massimo Mastruzzi,
The Brookings Institution, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG), World Bank Institute,
Date posted to database: July 11, 2007
Last Revised: July 14, 2007
2 13057 Deal or No Deal? Decision Making under Risk in a Large-Payoff Game Show
Thierry Post, Martijn J. Van den Assem, Guido Baltussen, Richard H. Thaler,
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Erasmus School of Economics (ESE), Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Erasmus School of Economics (ESE), New York University - Stern School of Business, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business,
Date posted to database: December 16, 2004
Last Revised: August 5, 2008
3 12849 Governance Matters VII: Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators, 1996-2007
Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay, Massimo Mastruzzi,
The Brookings Institution, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG), World Bank Institute,
Date posted to database: June 20, 2008
Last Revised: June 26, 2008
4 11024 Corporate Governance and Equity Prices
Paul A. Gompers, Joy L. Ishii, Andrew Metrick,
Harvard University - Finance Unit, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business, Yale School of Management,
Date posted to database: September 12, 2001
Last Revised: January 22, 2009
5 8054 Frictions to Political Competition and Financial Openness
Kostas Koufopoulos, Aristotelis Boukouras,
University of Warwick - Finance Group, University of Warwick,
Date posted to database: August 11, 2008
Last Revised: August 11, 2008
6 7796 Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Course Overview
Josh Lerner,
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit,
Date posted to database: April 23, 1998
Last Revised: January 26, 2009
7 7442 The Economics of Private Equity Funds
Andrew Metrick, Ayako Yasuda,
Yale School of Management, UC Davis, Graduate School of Management,
Date posted to database: June 27, 2007
Last Revised: October 6, 2009
8 6484 Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: A Mirage
Aneel G. Karnani,
University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business,
Date posted to database: July 14, 2006
Last Revised: April 30, 2007
9 6070 The State of U.S. Corporate Governance: What's Right and What's Wrong?
Bengt R. Holmström, Steven N. Kaplan,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business,
Date posted to database: September 8, 2003
Last Revised: April 2, 2008
10 5927 Private Equity Performance: Returns, Persistence and Capital Flows
Steven N. Kaplan, Antoinette Schoar,
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management,
Date posted to database: December 4, 2003
Last Revised: February 19, 2009

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days)
TOP 10 Papers for Entrepreneurship Research & Policy Network

September 23, 2009 to November 22, 2009



Rank Downloads Paper Title
1 632 Patent Claim Construction: A Modern Synthesis and Structured Framework
Peter S. Menell, Matthew D. Powers, Steven C. Carlson,
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, Fish & Richardson P.C.,
Date posted to database: September 21, 2009
Last Revised: October 6, 2009
2 414 A Brief Defense of the Written Description Requirement
Michael Risch,
West Virginia University College of Law,
Date posted to database: November 14, 2009
Last Revised: November 14, 2009
3 361 Economists' Hubris: The Case of Asset Pricing
Shahin Shojai, George Feiger,
Capco, Contango Capital Advisors,
Date posted to database: September 7, 2009
Last Revised: October 5, 2009
4 341 Dynamic Competition in Antitrust Law
J. Gregory Sidak, J. Gregory Sidak, David Teece,
Criterion Economics, L.L.C., Tilburg University - Faculty of Law, University of California, Berkeley - Business & Public Policy Group,
Date posted to database: September 29, 2009
Last Revised: November 2, 2009
5 275 From Bureaucratic Tech Transfer to Entrepreneurial Tech Commercialization
Norris F. Krueger, Norris F. Krueger, Brian Cummings, Steven P. Nichols,
Entrepreneurship Northwest, Max Planck Institute for Economics, University of Utah, University of Texas at Austin - College of Engineering,
Date posted to database: October 27, 2008
Last Revised: October 6, 2009
6 231 Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship
William R. Kerr, Ramana Nanda,
Harvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit, Harvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit,
Date posted to database: August 20, 2009
Last Revised: August 25, 2009
7 223 Overcoming the 'Impossible Issue' of Nonobviousness in Design Patents
Janice M. Mueller, Daniel Harris Brean,
University of Pittsburgh - School of Law, The Webb Law Firm,
Date posted to database: November 14, 2009
Last Revised: November 18, 2009
8 182 Gods at War: Shotgun Takeovers, Government by Deal and the Private Equity Implosion
Steven M. Davidoff,
University of Connecticut School of Law,
Date posted to database: October 2, 2009
Last Revised: October 6, 2009
9 176 The Real Option to Fuel Switch in the Presence of Expected Windfall Profits Under the EU ETS
Luca Taschini, Simon Urech,
London School of Economics - Grantham Research Institute, Author - affiliation not provided to SSRN,
Date posted to database: August 17, 2009
Last Revised: August 21, 2009
10 169 Listed Family Firms in Germany (German)
Ann-Kristin Achleitner, Christoph Kaserer, Tobias Kauf, Nina Günther, Markus Ampenberger,
Technische Universität München - Center for Entrepreneurial and Financial Studies, Technische Universität München, Center for Entrepreneurial and Financial Studies (CEFS), Technische Universität München, TUM Business School, Technische Universität München - Center for Entrepreneurial and Financial Studies, Technische Universität München - Center for Entrepreneurial and Financial Studies,
Date posted to database: October 20, 2009
Last Revised: October 25, 2009



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