Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending September 3, 2010:

1. Fundamentals of Intellectual Property: Cases & Materials
by Thomas G. Field Jr. (University of New Hampshire School of Law (formerly Franklin Pierce Law Center))

2. Detecting Deceptive Discussions in Conference Calls
by
David F. Larcker (Stanford University – Graduate School of Business) and Anastasia A. Zakolyukina (Stanford Graduate School of Business)

3. Convexity, Robustness, and Model Error
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NYU-Poly)

4. Why Did the Crisis of 2008 Happen?
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NYU-Poly)

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