Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending May 7, 2010:

1. Relative Strength Strategies for Investing
by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management)

2. Where to File Your Patent Case
by Mark A. Lemley (Stanford Law School)

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

4. Beyond Guilt in the Housing Crisis: The Morality of Strategic Default
by Brent T. White (University of Arizona – James E. Rogers College of Law)

5. 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)