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 #33 all-time (out of 1765 tax papers on SSRN):

1.  [501 Downloads]  Words!  Words!  Words!  Teaching the Language of Tax, by Stephen B. Cohen (Georgetown) [blogged here]

2.  [221 Downloads]  Financial Accounting and Corporate Behavior, by David I. Walker (BU) [blogged here]

3.  [192 Downloads] Earnings Management and Corporate Tax Shelters, by Mihir A. Desai (Harvard Business School) & Dhammika Dharmapala (University of Connecticut, Economics) [blogged here]

4.  [126 Downloads]  Is the Tax System Beyond Reform?, by George K. Yin (Virginia)  [blogged here]

5.  [87 Downloads]  The Federal Definition of Tax Partnership, by Bradley T. Borden (Washburn) [blogged here]