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Excerpt from Opalesque -- "Professor Stephen Brown describes how his recent research reports into operational due diligence have shown that operational risk is the 'disease' that plagues hedge funds and funds of funds, and accounts for low market-adjusted returns along with many of the fund failures that occurred in 2008."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Overall, art values rose 10.2% last year, according to art-market analyst Michael Moses."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Roubini, now one of the world’s most visible economic thinkers, has a similar view, though he sees the timing differently, with the worst coming in 2013 or 2014, when China will face a situation like the one the United States experienced in 2008."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- “It is fine to have low-skilled jobs as part of the mix or portfolio of employment opportunities. ... It is better than no jobs. But the mix is important too." Additional coverage appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek.

Excerpt from CNC World -- "A lot of hedge funds bought Greek debt that's maturing in March, in the hope that they bought it at deep discounts, in the hope that it would be paid out something close to par and that they would make a quick killing."

Excerpt from Downtown Express -- “We need to be thinking about the long term. Once you’ve sold off a building it’s gone and it’s so hard to find a good building site Downtown for a school.”

Excerpt from Slate -- "I'm a big fan of Paul Romer's essay that draws a different kind of contrast between the way the FAA regulates aviation safety and the way OSHA regulates workplace safety and the implications for financial regulation."

Excerpt from La Nazione -- "The assembly also elected four new members: Professor Gino Cattani, an associate professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University ... (Italian to English translation)."

Excerpt from Marketplace Radio -- "Obama wants to reward companies that create jobs here in the United States. One of the carrots is a tax credit for companies that move operations back here. Another would double tax breaks for high-tech factories making products here."

Excerpt from PRMIA.org -- "Edward I. Altman, Max L. Heine Professor of Finance, Stern School of Business, New York University will present his annual credit research on defaults and market conditions."

Excerpt from Energy Priorities Magazine -- “'Peer Effects in the Diffusion of Solar Photovoltaic Panels' is a report co-authored by Bryan Bollinger, NYU Stern School of Business, and Kenneth Gillingham, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. The ten years of collected and analyzed data strongly suggest there is a causal peer effect."

Excerpt from Stanford Events -- "Professor Van Nieuwerburgh's research lies in the intersection of macroeconomics, asset pricing, and housing. One strand of his work studies how financial market liberalization in the mortgage market relaxed households' down payment constraints, and how that affected the macro-economy, and the prices of stocks and bonds."

Excerpt from School of Visual Arts -- " ... game-like experiences are helping people to eat healthier, consume less energy, recycle more, be more engaged in school, and even innovate solutions to disease and poverty."

Excerpt from Global Finance Magazine -- "The issue of whether to let corporate end users off the hook is still pending. Until it’s settled, they can’t plan ahead."

Excerpt from Nature Biotechnology -- "The article investigates concerns that the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is taking too long to examine patents and is granting patents of low quality."

On Wednesday, May 16, 2012, NYU's All-University Commencement Exercises will be held at Yankee Stadium. On Thursday, May 17, 2012, NYU Stern's Undergraduate Baccalaureate Ceremony and NYU Stern's Graduate Convocation Ceremony will be held at Radio City Music Hall.

Excerpt from IMD.org -- "Dr. Spence focused on the challenges posed by big structural shifts in the world economy, which he said could triple in size in the next 20 years, from about $60trn to $180-200trn."

Excerpt from Deutschlandfunk -- "If you look at only the European market, then the proportion would be 95 percent, and that would be highly monopolistic. When in Chicago, New York, the stock exchanges in Japan and China to take, then shrinks the market share together for ten to 15 percent (German to English translation)."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- “Traditional asset allocation has provided diversification, superior returns, liquidity and cheaper fees. Alternatives have under-performed, are highly correlated to other asset classes, hinder liquidity, and charge high fees. This seems to be a comparison of a superior, less expensive product to an inferior, more expensive product.”

Excerpt from Forbes -- "I was lucky to work with colleagues Bruce Buchanan, Sally Blount and Batia Wiesenfeld who fought for, designed and taught courses like “Business and its Publics” and to have built a robust Business and Society Program."

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "As politically and economically motivated uprisings sprouted around the world this past year, these problems also coexisted at Davos, one seeking to help solve the other while at the same time being blamed for being its primary cause."

Excerpt from The Atlantic -- "How much of moral thinking is innate? Haidt sees morality as a 'social construction' that varies by time and place. We all live in a 'web of shared meanings and values' that become our moral matrix, he writes, and these matrices form what Haidt, quoting the science-fiction writer William Gibson, likens to 'a consensual hallucination.'"

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "If we genuinely long for a place for amateur performers to shine, if we sincerely want TV shows to help us find our next crop of young talent, then we MUST do some pruning." Additional coverage appeared in Popbytes.com.

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal blog -- "One reason we don’t save enough for retirement, [Hersfield and co-authors] suggest, is that we think of the person who will be withdrawing from our IRA not as ourselves, just at a different spot on the timeline, but as separate people entirely."

Excerpt from CBC -- "Technologies that are internet based always sort of stay one step ahead ... there's a simple way to get around [Twitter's new rules]."