SSRN apparently is still experiencing server problems, as this week’s list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads is the same as last week’s list.  Download data have not been updated since April 16:

1.  [373 Downloads]  "Stranger than Fiction": Taxing Virtual Worlds, by Leandra Lederman (Indiana)  [blogged here]

2.  [231 Downloads]  Tax Opinions, by David T. Moldenhauer (Clifford Chance, New York) [blogged here]

3.  [137 Downloads]  Pulling a Rabbi Out of His Hat: The Bankruptcy Magic of Dick Posner, by Randal C. Picker (Chicago)  [blogged here]

4.  [132 Downloads]  Patents, Tax Shelters, and the Firm, by Dan L. Burk (Minnesota) & Brett McDonnell (Minnesota)  [blogged here]

5.  [114 Downloads]  The Significance and Composition of Deferred Tax Assets and Liabilities, by James M. Poterba, Nirupama Rao & Jeri Seidman (all of MIT, Department of Economics)  [blogged here]