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ALL TIME HITS (for all papers in SSRN eLibrary)
TOP 10 Papers for Financial Economics Network

January 2, 1997 to November 20, 2009



Rank Downloads Paper Title
1 65539 Market Efficiency, Long-Term Returns, and Behavioral Finance
Eugene F. Fama,
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business,
Date posted to database: April 30, 1997
Last Revised: December 1, 2002
2 62832 Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure
William H. Meckling, Michael C. Jensen,
Simon School, University of Rochester (Deceased), Harvard Business School,
Date posted to database: July 19, 1998
Last Revised: October 12, 2008
3 38587 A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation
Mebane T. Faber,
Cambria Investment Management,
Date posted to database: February 11, 2007
Last Revised: July 15, 2009
4 27732 Value Versus Growth: The International Evidence
Eugene F. Fama, Kenneth R. French,
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business,
Date posted to database: May 1, 1997
Last Revised: July 27, 2000
5 27271 Value Based Management: Economic Value Added or Cash Value Added?
Fredrik Weissenrieder,
Weissenrieder Consulting AB,
Date posted to database: April 5, 1999
Last Revised: March 1, 2000
6 26111 Understanding the Subprime Mortgage Crisis
Yuliya S. Demyanyk, Otto Van Hemert,
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, New York University - Department of Finance,
Date posted to database: October 10, 2007
Last Revised: June 20, 2009
7 23820 Value Maximization, Stakeholder Theory, and the Corporate Objective Function
Michael C. Jensen,
Harvard Business School,
Date posted to database: April 11, 2000
Last Revised: February 17, 2004
8 22286 Taxes, Financing Decisions, and Firm Value
Eugene F. Fama, Kenneth R. French,
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business,
Date posted to database: February 1, 1997
Last Revised: March 10, 2000
9 22231 Corporate Governance and Control
Marco Becht, Patrick Bolton, Ailsa Röell,
Free University of Brussels (VUB/ULB) - European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Columbia Business School - Department of Economics, Princeton University - Bendheim Center for Finance,
Date posted to database: October 31, 2002
Last Revised: April 3, 2006
10 21698 Why We Have Never Used the Black-Scholes-Merton Option Pricing Formula (fifth version)
Espen Gaarder Haug, Nassim Nicholas Taleb,
Author - affiliation not provided to SSRN, NYU-Poly,
Date posted to database: September 11, 2007
Last Revised: June 30, 2009

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days)
TOP 10 Papers for Financial Economics Network

September 21, 2009 to November 20, 2009



Rank Downloads Paper Title
1 1326 The Equity Premium in 150 Textbooks
Pablo Fernandez,
University of Navarra - IESE Business School,
Date posted to database: September 14, 2009
Last Revised: October 28, 2009
2 1196 To Roth or Not to Roth: Analyzing the Conversion Opportunity for 2010 and Beyond
Richard L. Kaplan,
University of Illinois College of Law,
Date posted to database: September 23, 2009
Last Revised: October 10, 2009
3 1060 Equity Risk Premiums (ERP): Determinants, Estimation and Implications - A Post-Crisis Update
Aswath Damodaran,
New York University - Department of Finance,
Date posted to database: October 24, 2009
Last Revised: October 24, 2009
4 816 A Quantitative Approach to Faber's Tactical Asset Allocation
Stefano Marmi, Claudio Pacati, Wiston Adrián Risso, Roberto Renò,
Scuola Normale Superiore, University of Siena - Department of Economics, University of Siena - Department of Economics, University of Siena - Department of Economics,
Date posted to database: September 22, 2009
Last Revised: September 22, 2009
5 687 Ups and Downs: Valuing Cyclical and Commodity Companies
Aswath Damodaran,
New York University - Department of Finance,
Date posted to database: September 3, 2009
Last Revised: September 3, 2009
6 663 Did Fair-Value Accounting Contribute to the Financial Crisis?
Christian Laux, Christian Leuz,
Goethe University Frankfurt, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business,
Date posted to database: October 15, 2009
Last Revised: October 26, 2009
7 638 The Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns: What Have We Learnt from the Past Twenty-Five Years of Research?
Avanidhar Subrahmanyam,
University of California, Los Angeles - Finance Area,
Date posted to database: August 26, 2009
Last Revised: September 30, 2009
8 556 Do Hedge Fund Managers Have Stock Picking Skills?
Wesley R. Gray, Andrew E. Kern,
Empirical Finance, LLC, Empirical Finance, LLC,
Date posted to database: September 23, 2009
Last Revised: November 10, 2009
9 526 Optimal Trading Strategies for Ito Diffusion Processes
William Karel Bertram,
Author - affiliation not provided to SSRN,
Date posted to database: April 2, 2009
Last Revised: May 11, 2009
10 512 17 Basic Problems and 307 Wrong Answers (in Spanish)
Pablo Fernandez,
University of Navarra - IESE Business School,
Date posted to database: April 20, 2009
Last Revised: April 20, 2009



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