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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 184,600 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 148,100 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.

SSRN also offers a range of high-visibility Advertising Opportunities for companies seeking to market their products to professionals in the social science or law areas.

Browse the SSRN eLibrary, our current Top Ten documents, and see our Top Fifty Authors.

SSRN President's Letter

SSRN's 2007 Year-End President's Letter

SSRN's 2007 Mid-Year President's Letter

SSRN's Objective and Commitments to Users

A 10th Anniversary Message from Michael C. Jensen, SSRN Chairman.

SSRN In The News

The Chronicle of Higher Education Profiles HRN
(Monday, October 22, 2007)

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

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

Network Directors

Accounting Research Network
Ross Watts

Economics Research Network
Martin Feldstein & Michael C. Jensen

Entrepreneurship Research & Policy Network
Robert Litan

Financial Economics Network
Michael C. Jensen

Information Systems Network
Erik Brynjolfsson

Legal Scholarship Network
Bernard S. Black, Ronald Gilson & Mitchell Polinsky

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 & Environmental Impact Network
Judy Samuelson

Social Insurance Research Network
Marilyn Moon

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, Graduate School of Business University of Chicago, Advisory Editor of the Journal of Financial Economics, 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

Cahners-Rabb Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology, Harvard University

Professor Michael C. Jensen

Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, Founding Editor of the Journal of Financial Economics, President of 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, Graduate School of Business, Stanford Business School, Past President of the American Finance Association, 1990 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences

Professor Hal Varian

Dean of the 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.

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