SSRN Announcement: Announcing Top ERPN Papers of 2007

Announcing Top ERPN Papers of 2007

We are pleased to announce the Top Downloaded Entrepreneurship Papers of 2007. Since its inception in March 2006, the Entrepreneurship Research & Policy Network (ERPN) has grown significantly. Currently, the network consists of more than 4,300 papers with a combined total of more than 521,000 downloads.

During 2007, the Top Downloaded Entrepreneurship Papers were:

ERPN EDUCATOR: COURSES, CASES & TEACHING
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1. Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation
by Andrew Metrick (University of Pennsylvania)
Downloads: 849

2. Note to the Student: How to Study and Discuss Cases
by Robert F. Bruner (University of Virginia)
Downloads: 439

3. What is Behavioral Finance?
by Victor Ricciardi (Kentucky State University) and Helen K. Simon (Personal Business Management Services, LLC)
Downloads: 354

ENTREPRENEURSHIP & ECONOMICS
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1. Goodbye Pareto Principle, Hello Long Tail: The Effect of Search Costs on the Concentration of Product Sales
by Erik Brynjolfsson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Yu Jeffrey Hu (Purdue University) and Duncan Simester (MIT)
Downloads: 2,209

2. Intellectual Property, the Immigration Backlog, and a Reverse Brain-Drain: America's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Part III
by Vivek Wadhwa (Duke University), Guillermina Jasso (New York University), Ben Rissing (Harvard Law School), Gary Gereffi (Duke University) and Richard B. Freeman (National Bureau of Economic Research)
Downloads: 1,403

3. Commercializing University Innovations: Alternative Approaches
by Robert E. Litan (AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies), Lesa Mitchell (Kauffman Foundation) and E.J. Reedy (Kauffman Foundation)
Downloads: 1,147

ENTREPRENEURSHIP & FINANCE
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1. Two and Twenty: Taxing Partnership Profits in Private Equity Funds
by Victor Fleischer (University of Illinois)
Downloads: 1,998

2. The Economics of Private Equity Funds
by Andrew Metrick (University of Pennsylvania) and Ayako Yasuda (University of Pennsylvania)
Downloads: 1,382

3. Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Course Overview
by Josh Lerner (Harvard Business School)
Downloads: 889

ENTREPRENEURSHIP & LAW
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1. Governance Matters VI: Governance Indicators for 1996-2006
by Daniel Kaufmann (World Bank Institute), Aart Kraay (World Bank) and Massimo Mastruzzi (World Bank)
Downloads: 8,706

2. Secrets Revealed: How Magicians Protect Intellectual Property without Law
by Jacob Loshin (Yale Law School)
Downloads: 3,365

3. Two and Twenty: Taxing Partnership Profits in Private Equity Funds
by Victor Fleischer (University of Illinois)
Downloads: 1,998

ENTREPRENEURSHIP & MANAGEMENT
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1. Two and Twenty: Taxing Partnership Profits in Private Equity Funds
by Victor Fleischer (University of Illinois)
Downloads: 1,998

2. The Economic Case for Private Equity
by Michael C. Jensen (Harvard Business School)
Downloads: 1,304

3. Integrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics and Legality
by Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen (Harvard Business School) and Steve Zaffron (Vanto Group)
Downloads: 1,038

ENTREPRENEURSHIP & MARKETING
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1. Virtual World Business Brands: Entrepreneurship and Identity in Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming Environments
by Betsy Book
Downloads: 885

2. Was There Too Little Entry During the Dot Com Era?
by Brent D. Goldfarb (University of Maryland), David Kirsch (University of Maryland) and David A. Miller (University of California, San Diego)
Downloads: 435

3. Deriving the Pricing Power of Product Features by Mining Consumer Reviews
by Nikolay Archak, Anindya Ghose (New York University) and Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis (New York University)
Downloads: 326

ENTREPRENEURSHIP & THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
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1. Deal or No Deal? Decision Making under Risk in a Large-Payoff Game Show
by Thierry Post (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Martijn J. Van den Assem (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Guido Baltussen (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Richard H. Thaler (University of Chicago)
Downloads: 3,519

2. A New Model of Leadership
by Allan L. Scherr (ALS Consulting) and Michael C. Jensen (Harvard Business School)
Downloads: 1,157

3. Virtual World Business Brands: Entrepreneurship and Identity in Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming Environments
by Betsy Book
Downloads: 885

ENTREPRENEURSHIP, GENERAL
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1. Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity, 1996-2006
by Robert W. Fairlie (University of California)
Downloads: 878

2. Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation
by Andrew Metrick (University of Pennsylvania)
Downloads: 849

3. Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity
by William J. Baumol (New York University), Robert E. Litan (AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies) and Carl Jude Schramm (Kauffman Foundation)
Downloads: 439

ENTREPRENEURSHIP, INNOVATION & GROWTH
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1. Intellectual Property, the Immigration Backlog, and Reverse Brain-Drain: America's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Part III
by Vivek Wadhwa (Duke University), Guillermina Jasso (New York University), Ben Rissing (Harvard Law School), Gary Gereffi (Duke University) and Richard B. Freeman (National Bureau of Economic Research)
Downloads: 1,403

2. A New Model of Leadership
by Allan L. Scherr (ALS Consulting) and Michael C. Jensen (Harvard Business School)
Downloads: 1,157

3. Education, Entrepreneurship and Immigration: America's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Part II
by Vivek Wadhwa (Duke University), Ben Rissing (Harvard Law School), AnnaLee Saxenian (University of California, Berkeley) and Gary Gereffi (Duke University)
Downloads: 490

SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
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1. Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: A Mirage
by Aneel G. Karnani (University of Michigan)
Downloads: 1,975

2. Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Entrepreneurship
by David P. Baron (Stanford Graduate School of Business)
Downloads: 402

3. Employment, Not Microcredit, is the Solution
by Aneel G. Karnani (University of Michigan)
Downloads: 345

Posted 2/21/08