Weekly Top 5 Papers – October 23, 2015

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1. Surprised by the Gambler’s and Hot Hand Fallacies? A Truth in the Law of Small Numbers by Joshua Miller (Bocconi University) and Adam Sanjurjo (Universidad de Alicante)

2. The Girl Who Cried Pain: A Bias Against Women in the Treatment of Pain by Diane E. Hoffmann (University of Maryland) and Anita J. Tarzian (University of Maryland)

3. On the Statistical Properties and Tail Risk of Violent Conflicts by Pasquale Cirillo (Delft University of Technology) and Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Independent Researcher)

4. A Brief Introduction to the Basics of Game Theory
by Matthew O. Jackson (Stanford University – Department of Economics)

5. The Legal History of ‘Dangerous or Unusual Weapons’
by Clayton E. Cramer (College of Western Idaho)