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.  Stephen Cohen’s paper has risen to #35 all-time (out of 1761 tax papers on SSRN):

1.  [438 Downloads]  Words!  Words!  Words!  Teaching the Language of Tax, by Stephen B. Cohen (Georgetown) [blogged here]

2.  [205 Downloads]  Financial Accounting and Corporate Behavior, by David I. Walker (BU) [blogged here]

3.  [176 Downloads]  Inside Zarin, by Theodore P. Seto (Loyola-L.A.) [blogged here]

4.  [169 Downloads] Earnings Management and Corporate Tax Shelters, by Mihir A. Desai (Harvard Business School) & Dhammika Dharmapala (University of Connecticut, Economics) [blogged here]

5.  [105 Downloads]  Is the Tax System Beyond Reform?, by George K. Yin (Virginia)  [blogged here]