Weekly Top 5 Papers – March 4, 2011

1. Binomial Options Pricing Has No Closed-Form Solution
by Evangelos Georgiadis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT))

2. Madoff’s Dirty Money
by Linus Wilson (University of Louisiana at Lafayette – College of Business Administration)

3. Equity Risk Premiums (ERP): Determinants, Estimation and Implications – The 2011 Edition
by Aswath Damodaran (New York University – Stern School of Business)

4. Bad News for Mail Robbers: The Obvious Constitutionality of Health Care Reform
by Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern University School of Law)

5. What Economists Know About Open Source Software – Its Basic Principles and Research Results
by Sebastian Von Engelhardt (University of Jena – Economics Department)