Following up on yesterday’s post, 7,500th Paper Posted to SSRN Tax e-Journal Database:  here are the Top 10 tax papers  (as well as non-tax papers posted by Tax Profs) as measured by all-time downloads:

1. [4,495 Downloads]  Understanding the U.S. News Law School Rankings (2006), by Theodore P. Seto (Loyola-L.A.)
2. [4,137 Downloads]  Two and Twenty: Taxing Partnership Profits in Private Equity Funds (2006), by Victor Fleischer (Colorado)
3. [3,839 Downloads]  Taxes and Corporate Finance (2001), by John R. Graham (Duke University, Fuqua School of Business)
4. [3,243 Downloads]  Pursuing a Tax LLM Degree: Why and When? (2010), by Paul L. Caron (Cincinnati), Jennifer M. Kowal (Loyola-L.A.) & Katherine Pratt (Loyola-L.A.)
5. [3,179 Downloads]  Firm Value and Marketability Discounts (2001), by Mukesh Bajaj (UC-Berkeley, Haas School of Business), David J. Denis (Purdue University, Department of Management), Stephen P. Ferris (University of Missouri-Columbia, Department of Finance) & Atulya Sarin (Santa Clara University, Department of Finance)
6. [2,747 Downloads]  Taxing Undocumented Immigrants: Separate, Unequal and Without Representation (2006), by Francine J. Lipman (Chapman)
7. [2,529 Downloads]  Understanding Venture Capital Structure: A Tax Explanation for Convertible Preferred Stock (2002), by Ronald J. Gilson (Stanford) & David Schizer (Columbia)
8. [2,400 Downloads]  Tax Evasion and Tax Compliance (1998), by Luigi A. Franzoni (University of Bologna, Faculty of Economics)
9. [2,164 Downloads]  What Law Schools Can Learn from Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics (2004), by Paul L. Caron (Cincinnati) & Rafael Gely (Missouri-Columbia)
10. [1,995 Downloads]  Empirical Tax Research in Accounting (2000), by Douglas A. Shackelford (University of North Carolina, Kenan-Flagler Business School) & Terry J. Shevlin (University of Washington, Michael G. Foster School of Business)  

TaxProf Blog publishes a monthly listing of the Top 25 tax professors as measured by all-time and recent downloads, as well as a weekly listing of the Top 5 tax papers as measured by recent downloads.