Weekly Top 5 Papers – August 19, 2016

1. Explaining Nationalist Political Views: The Case of Donald Trump by Jonathan Rothwell (Gallup)

2. The Perfect Crime by Brian Kalt (Michigan State University College of Law)

3. A Brief Introduction to the Basics of Game Theory by Matthew O. Jackson (Stanford University)

4. Concealed Carry Permit Holders Across the United States: 2016 by John Lott (Crime Prevention Research Center)

5. How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions? by Paul Gompers (Harvard Business School – Finance Unit; Harvard University – Entrepreneurial Management Unit; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI))
and Will Gornall (University of British Columbia (UBC) – Division of Finance)
and Steven Kaplan (University of Chicago – Booth School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)) and Ilya Strebulaev (Stanford University – Graduate School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research)