The New York Times on the brand-new SSRN ranking functionality:

Bloggers like Mr. Reynolds [a university professor] tend to do well on the site, since they can promote their work and offer links to their articles.

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Social Science Research Network – (SSRN)

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Previous blog posts by Chris F. Masse:

• The best research papers on prediction markets
• 2008 Electoral Map
• American Enterprise Institute’s Center For Regulatory And Market Studies (Policy Markets)
• IIF’s SIG on Prediction Markets
• Science
• Why did prediction markets do well in the pre-polling era, professor Strumpf?
• Mozilla FireFox users, do you have trouble downloading academic papers (as PDF files) from SSRN?