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Prof. Jonathan Haidt on social disgust

Excerpt from Business2Community.com -- "Social disgust can then be understood as the emotional reaction people have to witness­ing others moving 'down,' or exhibiting their lower, baser, less God-like nature." Additional coverage appeared in 435 South Magazine.
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Prof. Jonathan Haidt's forthcoming book, "The Righteous Mind," is cited

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Excerpt from The Atlantic -- "Liberals should not, as Jonathan Haidt argues in his forthcoming "The Righteous Mind," condescend to conservatives or ignore the advantages of their lifestyles."
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A discussion between Prof. Nouriel Roubini & journalist Roberto Saviano at NYU Stern is featured

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "The Roubini-Saviano panel was not a night of stringent, economic analysis, but very trenchantly Saviano, the brave, provided an overview of criminal activities by "legitimate" financial institutions, who in many instances share the same ignorance towards the law as organized crime."
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Prof. Lawrence White says banks should use capital as the buffer against losses

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Excerpt from CNNMoney -- "Capital is the buffer that protects banks against losses. Something north of 10% would be much better and much safer." Additional coverage appeared in WMUR.
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An op-ed by Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence on the US trade deficits

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Excerpt from Project-Syndicate -- "In the US, productivity deficiencies have led to a pattern of disconnection from global supply chains. So the challenge for America is not only to restore productivity, but also to restore its links to the main currents of world trade." Additional coverage appeared in China Daily, NEurope.eu and Today's Zaman.
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Prof. Paul Romer's research on accounting fraud is cited

Excerpt from Benzinga -- "As George Akerlof and Paul Romer explained in their famous 1993 article ('Looting: the Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit'), accounting control fraud is a 'sure thing.'"
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NYU Life Trustee & Emeritus Chair of the Overseers Henry Kaufman & Prof. Nouriel Roubini are cited

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Excerpt from Reuters -- "Kaufman earned the sobriquet Dr. Doom in the 1970s - long before Nouriel Roubini acquired the title in recent years. Like Roubini, Kaufman was prescient in his warnings about excessive debt in the financial system." Additional coverage appeared in WKZO, The Huffington Post, Reuters India, and CNBC.
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini's views on the global financial crisis are cited

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Interventionist economists like Paul Krugman ("The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008") and Nouriel Roubini ("Crisis Economics") say that we haven't borrowed enough to get out of a crisis brought on by too much borrowing."
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Prof. Arun Sundararajan will speak at the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

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Excerpt from Times of India -- "The list of distinguished speakers at the conference includes Prabuddha De ( Purdue University), Varghese S Jacob (Texas Dallas), Sridhar Narsimhan (Georgia Tech), Arun Sundararajan (Stern Business School), and Sumit Sarkar (Texas Dallas)."
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Research Scholar Robert Frank on status emulation

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Excerpt from Globe and Mail -- "'All consumption norms are local,' writes Mr. Frank. '… The important practical point is that when the rich build bigger, they shift the frame of reference that shaped the demands of the near rich, who travel in the same social circles … and so on, all the way down.'" Additional coverage appeared in the Times Union blog.
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Prof. Paul Wachtel on the US and Japanese economies

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal Japan -- "The U.S. and Japan are also different immigration policies. In the United States, including the influx of highly educated immigrants, young and still growing population, has been the driving force for the U.S. economy" (Japanese to English translation).
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Prof. Marcin Kacperczyk's research on sin stocks is highlighted

Excerpt from SmartMoney -- "Some research has found that the best-performing stocks over long periods are in the 'sinful' categories like tobacco, says Marcin Kacperczyk, an assistant professor of finance at New York University's Stern School of Business."
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Prof. Thomas Philippon on European debt

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Excerpt from Agence France Presse -- "'The French banks, for example, will no longer buy Italian debt. They did it once, not twice,' warned Thomas Philippon, a professor at Stern School of Business (French to English translation)."  Additional coverage appeared in AWP Swiss News.
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Executive Board Member & Prof. Richard Bernstein offers investment advice for 2012

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Excerpt from USA Today -- "Buy U.S. small-company stocks. These volatile and economically sensitive stocks will work well and outperform if the dreaded 'double dip' recession doesn't occur, Bernstein says." Additional coverage appeared in another USA Today piece, MSN Money and MoneyShow.com.
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Prof. Scott Galloway's Digital IQ rankings of European specialty retailers is featured

Excerpt from PRWeb -- “While European retail growth is off 2.3 percent year-on-year, the e-commerce channel is expected to grow at 12.2 percent annually.”
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Prof. Matthew Richardson on the regulation of the derivatives market

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Excerpt from Reuters -- "What they’re struggling with both here and abroad is being able to differentiate between risk mitigation and risk taking. We will probably have a second-best solution that will decrease the amount of derivatives in the world, but maybe that’s the best we can do."
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Prof. William Baumol's work on entrepreneurship is cited

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Excerpt from Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge blog -- "It remains unclear, for instance, whether William Baumol's neat distinction between productive and unproductive entrepreneurship is borne out by historical experience."
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Prof. Jeffrey Wurgler's research on stock risk and portfolio performance is referenced

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Excerpt from San Francisco Chronicle -- "A March 2010 study by Malcolm Baker, Brendan Bradley and Jeffrey Wurgler, published in the Jan./Feb. 2011 Financial Analysts Journal and entitled, 'Benchmarks as Limits to Arbitrage: Understanding the Low-Volatility Anomaly,' demonstrated that from Jan. 1968 to Dec. 2008 portfolios of low-risk stocks actually outperformed portfolios of high-risk stocks by a whopping margin. "
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Prof. Viral Acharya says banks regulators should be held accountable

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- “The regulators should be accountable, and they should at least face some risk of disrepute in case of mistakes and oversights in the process." Additional coverage appeared in another Bloomberg piece and Bloomberg Businessweek.
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Prof. Marcin Kacperczyk's research on credit ratings is cited

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal blog -- "Mr. Hong, along with economists Kingsley Fong, Marcin Kacperczyk and Jeffrey Kubik, looked to what happens to credit ratings when a company loses an analyst as a result of a brokerage merger."
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Prof. Thomas Philippon's research on the efficiency of the US finance industry is highlighted

Excerpt from HeraldNet.com -- "Philippon's research indicates that over the years our financial system has become less and less efficient."
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Prof. Viral Acharya is highlighted as a member of the Sebi International Advisory Board

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Excerpt from Business Standard -- "The IAB would comprise of seven members, including the Sebi Chairman UK Sinha. The six outside members include Viral Acharya from New York University's Stern School of Business ... " Additional coverage appeared in Asia Pulse.
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini in a piece on Indonesia's credit rating

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Excerpt from Financial Times blog -- "In a move that will get Nouriel Roubini’s blessing, Fitch Ratings has upgraded Indonesia’s long-term, foreign and local, currency issuer default ratings to investment grade (to ‘BBB-’ from ‘BB+’)."
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence & Prof. Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh on the crisis in Europe

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "The downgrades reflect 'balance sheet damage' emanating from the increased riskiness of European sovereign debt, but they would not result in any major economic repercussions, said Michael Spence."
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Prof. Roy Smith on creating eurobonds

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Excerpt from Financial News -- "Financial News commentator Roy Smith first suggested the creation of eurobonds to refinance regional debt burdens a year ago."