Weekly Top 5 Papers – February 20th 2017

1. Socrates’ Defense by Cathal Woods (Virginia Wesleyan College) and Ryan Pack (Virginia Wesleyan College)

2. Betting Against Correlation: Testing Theories of the Low-Risk Effect by Clifford Asness (AQR Capital Management, LLC) and Andrea Frazzini (AQR Capital Management, LLC) and Niels Joachim Gormsen (Copenhagen Business School) and Lasse Pedersen (AQR Capital Management, LLC)

3. Extreme Protest Tactics Reduce Popular Support for Social Movements by Matthew Feinberg (University of Toronto – Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management) and Robb Willer (Stanford University) and Chloe Kovacheff (University of Toronto – Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management)

4. The Joys of Yiddish and Economics by Daniel Klein (George Mason University – Department of Economics)

5. Black Money and Demonetisation by Rahul Deodhar (University of Mumbai)