Weekly Top 5 Papers – November 13, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending November 13, 2009:

1. Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be…Lawyers
by Herwig J. Schlunk (Vanderbilt University 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 (The Brookings Institution) and Aart Kraay (World Bank – Development Research Group (DECRG)) and Massimo Mastruzzi (World Bank Institute)

4. Common Errors in the Interpretation of the Ideas of The Black Swan and Associated Papers
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NYU-Poly Institute)

5. The Death of Big Law
by Larry E. Ribstein (University of Illinois College of Law)