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January 2, 1997 to May 19, 2013



Rank Downloads Paper Title
1 17005 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
2 16725 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
3 16308 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,
Koc University - Graduate School of Business, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Erasmus School of Economics (ESE), Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Erasmus School of Economics (ESE), University of Chicago - Booth School of Business,
Date posted to database: December 16, 2004
Last Revised: February 21, 2012
4 13232 Economic Consequences of Financial Reporting and Disclosure Regulation: A Review and Suggestions for Future Research
Christian Leuz, Peter D. Wysocki,
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Miami - School of Business Administration,
Date posted to database: March 13, 2008
Last Revised: May 7, 2008
5 12277 The Economics of Private Equity Funds
Andrew Metrick, Ayako Yasuda,
Yale School of Management, University of California, Davis - Graduate School of Management,
Date posted to database: June 27, 2007
Last Revised: August 3, 2010
6 11878 The 'IKEA Effect': When Labor Leads to Love
Michael I. Norton, Daniel Mochon, Dan Ariely,
Harvard University - Marketing Unit, Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of Business, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business,
Date posted to database: March 4, 2011
Last Revised: March 4, 2011
7 11737 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
8 11559 Frictions to Political Competition and Financial Openness
Kostas Koufopoulos, Aristotelis Boukouras,
University of Warwick - Finance Group, Courant Research Centre PEG,
Date posted to database: August 11, 2008
Last Revised: August 11, 2008
9 10278 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
10 8846 A New Model of Integrity: An Actionable Pathway to Trust, Productivity and Value (PDF File of Keynote Slides)
Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron,
Unaffiliated Authors - Independent, Harvard Business School, Landmark Worldwide LLC,
Date posted to database: September 20, 2008
Last Revised: December 11, 2012

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

March 20, 2013 to May 19, 2013



Rank Downloads Paper Title
1 656 Entrepreneurs, Firms and Global Wealth Since 1850
Geoffrey Jones,
Harvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit,
Date posted to database: March 13, 2013
Last Revised: March 13, 2013
2 358 Swept Away by the Crowd? Crowdfunding, Venture Capital, and the Selection of Entrepreneurs
Ethan R. Mollick,
University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School ,
Date posted to database: March 25, 2013
Last Revised: March 25, 2013
3 350 Patent Trolls by the Numbers
Colleen V. Chien,
Santa Clara University - School of Law,
Date posted to database: March 13, 2013
Last Revised: April 26, 2013
4 307 The Future of Prediction: How Google Searches Foreshadow Housing Prices and Sales
Lynn Wu, Lynn Wu, Erik Brynjolfsson,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management,
Date posted to database: March 14, 2012
Last Revised: October 31, 2012
5 306 The Supercharged IPO
Victor Fleischer, Nancy C. Staudt,
University of Colorado at Boulder - School of Law, University of Southern California - Law School,
Date posted to database: March 21, 2013
Last Revised: April 4, 2013
6 302 A Simple Approach to Setting Reasonable Royalties for Standard-Essential Patents
Mark A. Lemley, Carl Shapiro,
Stanford Law School, University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business,
Date posted to database: April 2, 2013
Last Revised: May 1, 2013
7 193 Recent Developments in Federal Income Taxation: The Year 2012
Martin J. McMahon, Ira B. Shepard, Daniel L. Simmons,
University of Florida - Levin College of Law, University of Houston - Law Center, University of California, Davis - School of Law,
Date posted to database: March 13, 2013
Last Revised: April 13, 2013
8 191 Antitrust Corporate Governance and Compliance
Rosa M. Abrantes-Metz, D. Daniel Sokol,
Global Economics Group, LLC, University of Florida - Levin College of Law,
Date posted to database: April 10, 2013
Last Revised: April 10, 2013
9 140 Copyright Trolls and Presumptively Fair Uses
Brad A. Greenberg,
U.S. District Court,
Date posted to database: March 15, 2013
Last Revised: March 25, 2013
10 136 Do Trademark Lawyers Matter?
Deborah R. Gerhardt, Jon P. McClanahan,
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Law, UNC School of Law,
Date posted to database: April 8, 2013
Last Revised: April 27, 2013



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