Tuesday, December 31, 2013

The Most Downloaded Papers at the Social Science Research Network: 2013 Edition

From the SSRN blog:
2014 is right around the corner and it’s about that time to highlight our most downloaded papers from the past year. These articles covered it all – organ transplants, game theory, asset management, government surveillance and privacy and beyond.
Congrats and cheers from all of us at SSRN!
Top Papers January-June 2013
1. A Brief Introduction to the Basics of Game Theory
by Matthew Jackson (Stanford University – Department of Economics)
2. Do Defaults Save Lives?
by Eric Johnson (Columbia Business School – Marketing) and Daniel Goldstein (Microsoft Research New York City)
3. The Dishonesty of Honest People: A Theory of Self-Concept Maintenance
by Nina Mazar (University of Toronto – Joseph L. Rotman School of Management) and On Amir (University of California, San Diego (UCSD) – Rady School of Management) and Dan Ariely (Duke University – Fuqua School of Business)
4. Ham Sandwich Nation: Due Process When Everything is a Crime
by Glenn Reynolds (University of Tennessee College of Law)
5. ‘I’ve Got Nothing to Hide’ and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy
by Daniel Solove (George Washington University Law School)

Top 5 Papers July-December 2013
1. A Brief Introduction to the Basics of Game Theory
by Matthew O. Jackson (Stanford University – Department of Economics)
2. Legal Regulation of the Multimodal Carriage of Goods
by Nadezda Alexandrovna Butakova (Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA))
3. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation
by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management)
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