Weekly Top 5 Papers – January 14, 2011

1. IBEX 35: 1991-2010 – Value Creation and Return
by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) and Javier Aguirreamalloa (affiliation not provided to SSRN) and Luis Corres Avendaño (IESE)

2. What is Marriage?
by Sherif Girgis (Princeton University Department of Philosophy) and Robert George (Princeton University – Department of Politics) and Ryan T. Anderson (University of Notre Dame Department of Political Science)

3. A Replication of the Procedures from Bem (2010, Study 8) and a Failure to Replicate the Same Results
by Jeff Galak (Carnegie Mellon University) and Leif D. Nelson (University of California, Berkeley – Haas School of Business)

4. How Much Trouble is Early Foul Trouble?
by Allan Maymin (AllianceBernstein) and Philip Maymin (NYU Poly – Department of Finance and Risk Engineering) and Eugene Shen (AllianceBernstein)

5. The Impact of Right-To-Carry Laws and the NRC Report: Lessons for the Empirical Evaluation of Law and Policy
by Abhay Aneja (Stanford University) and John J. Donohue III (Stanford Law School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)) and Alexandria Zhang (Johns Hopkins University)