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Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences. We have received several excellence awards for our web site.

Each of SSRN's networks encourages the early distribution of research results by publishing Submitted abstracts and by soliciting abstracts of top quality research papers around the world. We now have hundreds of journals, publishers, and institutions in Partners in Publishing that provide working papers for distribution through SSRN's eLibrary and abstracts for publication in SSRN's electronic journals.

The SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 508,000 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 415,100 downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format. The eLibrary also includes the research papers of a number of Fee Based Partner Publications.

The Networks encourage readers to communicate directly with authors and other subscribers concerning their own and others' research. To facilitate this we publish detailed author contact information including email addresses for authors of each paper. We also provide electronic delivery of the papers when authors wish us to do so from the SSRN eLibrary. You may also Browse the SSRN eLibrary, view our current Top Papers or search the electronic library for papers by Title, Author, or Journal/Topic.

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Recent Announcements

SSRN has again been named the Number 1 Open Access Repository in the World (for July, 2012) by the Ranking Web of World Repositories. Our thanks to all of the SSRN community who helped make this happen.

Stanford Graduate School of Business Joins MRN Business School Research Papers

University of Technology Sydney Joins Law School Research Papers - Legal Studies

Announcing Third Annual International Conference on Engaged Management Scholarship Online Proceedings on SSRN

University of Leicester Joins Law School Research Papers - Legal Studies

Brown University Joins Political Science Departments Research Papers

Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP) Joins Economics Research Centers Papers

University of Southern California Joins Finance Research Centers Papers

Announcing 2013 Silicon Flatirons Center Online Proceedings on SSRN

 
SSRN President's Letter

SSRN's 2013 Mid-Year President's Letter

SSRN's 2012 Year-End President's Letter

SSRN Blog

SSRN In The News

The New York Times on SSRN
(Monday, June 9, 2008)

Growthology Blog Posts Interview with SSRN Chairman Michael Jensen
(Thursday, June 5, 2008)

Napster for Nerds
(Montreal Gazette, January 13, 2004)

David Warsh on SSRN
(Excerpted from "The Publisher", November 30, 2003)

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Accounting Research Network
Ross Watts

Cognitive Science Network
Mark Turner

Corporate Governance Network
Lucian Bebchuk

Economics Research Network
Michael C. Jensen

Entrepreneurship Research & Policy Network
Robert Strom

Financial Economics Network
Michael C. Jensen

Health Economics Network
Thomas E. Getzen

Information Systems Network
Erik Brynjolfsson

Leadership Research Network
Nitin Nohria & Rakesh Khurana

Legal Scholarship Network
Bernard Black & Ronald Gilson

Management Research Network
Michael C. Jensen

Marketing Research Network
Al Silk

Negotiations Research Network
Max H. Bazerman

Political Science Network
David A. Lake & Mathew D. McCubbins

Social Insurance Research Network
Janice Gregory

Music Research & Composition Network
Andre de Quadros

Rhetoric & Communication Research Network
David C. Logan

Board of Trustees

Eugene F. Fama
Ronald J. Gilson
J. Richard Hackman
Michael C. Jensen
Richard Quandt
William F. Sharpe
Hal Varian


About the Board of Trustees

Professor Eugene F. Fama

Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chairman, Center for Research in Security at Chicago Booth, Advisory Editor of the Journal of Financial Economics, Director of Research, Dimensional Fund Advisors, and Chairman of Social Science Electronic Publishing

Professor Ronald J. Gilson

Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and Business, Stanford Law School and Marc and Eva Stern Professor of Law and Business, Columbia University School of Law

Professor J. Richard Hackman

Edgar Pierce Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Professor Michael C. Jensen

Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, Harvard Business School; Founding Editor of the Journal of Financial Economics, Chairman, Social Science Electronic Publishing, Past President of the American Finance Association, and of the Western Economics Association International.

Professor Richard Quandt

Hughes-Rogers Professor Emeritus, Princeton University and Senior Advisor, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Professor William F. Sharpe

The STANCO 25 Professor of Finance, Emeritus, Graduate School of Business, Stanford Business School, Past President of the American Finance Association, 1990 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences

Professor Hal Varian

Professor, School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California at Berkeley, Professor of Economics in the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, Chief Economist at Google


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