Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending July 9, 2010:

1. WACC: Definition, Misconceptions and Errors
by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School)

2. WACC: Definition and Errors
by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School)

3. Errors, Robustness, and the Fourth Quadrant
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NYU-Poly)

4. Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?
by Lauren Cohen (Harvard Business School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)) and Joshua D. Coval (Harvard Business School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)) and Christopher J. Malloy (Harvard Business School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER))

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