There is a bit of movement in this week’s list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads on SSRN, with a new paper debuting at #5:      

1.  [426 Downloads]  Ranking Law Schools: Using SSRN to Measure Scholarly Performance, by Bernard S. Black (Texas) & Paul L. Caron (Cincinnati) [blogged here]

2.  [201 Downloads]  Brand New Deal: The Google IPO and the Branding Effect of Corporate Deal Structures, by Victor Fleischer (UCLA) [blogged here]

3.  [170 Downloads]  The Ethics of Tax Evasion: A Survey of International Business Academics, by Robert W. McGee (Barry University, Andreas School of Business) [blogged here]

4.  [97 Downloads]  U.S. Tax Treaty Policy and the European Court of Justice, by Ruth Mason (NYU) [blogged here]

5.  [90 Downloads]  Anatomy of a Disaster Under the Internal Revenue Code, by Francine J. Lipman (Chapman) [blogged here]