Weekly Announcements – May 14, 2009

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:

Vermont Law School Research Paper Series

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The Vermont Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series contains a wide range of papers from scholars at the Vermont Law School. Vermont is particularly known for its work in Environmental Law and related subjects such as Natural Resources, Energy and Land Use, and papers on these topics are well represented. Vermont’s scholarship also embodies a diverse spectrum of additional doctrinal and interdisciplinary interests, and the papers in this series reflect this diversity as well. (View full announcement)

New ERN Subject Matter eJournal & 3 Expanded Subject Matter eJournals

We are pleased to announce a new Economics Research Network (ERN) Subject Matter eJournal — Game Theory & Bargaining Theory — as well as the expansion of three Subject Matter eJournals — Institutional & Transition Economics, Microeconomics, and Organizations & Markets. (View full announcement)

New Corporate Governance Network

CGN is sponsored by the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) Institute, whose mission is to provide thought leadership at the intersection of corporate responsibility and the informational needs of investors. While the Institute is a relatively new non-profit organization, formed with the proceeds of the sale of the Investor Responsibility Research Center in 2006, it continues the tradition and standards of objective research for which IRRC has been known since 1972. For more information, please see http://www.irrcinstitute.org.

CGN’s founding director is Lucian A. Bebchuk, William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance, and Director, Corporate Governance Program, Harvard University – Harvard Law School; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Research Associate, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI).(View full announcement)

Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference 2009 Abstracting eJournal

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The aim of this annual conference series is to improve our ability to answer the “big picture” questions and other related questions by engaging some of the world’s top researchers on competitive advantage in Atlanta for 3 days each year. You can browse abstracts and download the full text of all papers given at the Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference 2009 in the SSRN database. (View full announcement)