Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending July 17, 2009:

1. Information for Submitting Articles to Law Reviews & Journals
by Allen Rostron (University of Missouri at Kansas City – School of Law) and Nancy Levit (University of Missouri at Kansas City – School of Law)

2. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation
by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management)

3. Governance Matters VIII: Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators, 1996-2008
by Daniel Kaufmann (Brookings Institution) and Aart Kraay (World Bank – Development Research Group) and Massimo Mastruzzi (World Bank Institute)

4. Post-Conflict Justice and Sustainable Peace
by Scott Gates (International Peace Research Institute, Oslo – Centre for the Study of Civil War) and Helga Malmin Binningsbo (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and Tove Grete Lie (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

5. Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure
by Michael C. Jensen (Harvard Business School; The Monitor Company; Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc.) and William H. Meckling (University of Rochester Simon School [deceased])