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Prof. Jeffrey Wurgler's research on market financing decisions is featured

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Excerpt from Barron's -- "Given the results of Profs. Baker and Wurgler's research, this strongly suggests that corporate managers view their debt as being overvalued and their equity undervalued."
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Prof. Edward Altman on the Greek economy

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Excerpt from Marketplace Radio -- "Fashion, technology, energy and a very wealthy private and corporate sector -- which Greece does not have, and there's no chance for a country to survive over the long run without some sort of competitive advantages."
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Prof. Aswath Damodaran on micro-managing stock market data

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Excerpt from The Globe and Mail -- “Once you start micro-managing the data looking for patterns, you will find them simply because there is so much data that there have to be patterns."
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In an op-ed Profs David Backus & Thomas Cooley look at 2011 Nobel Laureate Prof. Thomas Sargent

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Excerpt from VoxEU.org -- "Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims gave us a coherent framework with which to think about and discuss these critical policy issues. And they fully anticipated the difficult dilemmas we now face as a consequence of recent fiscal policy."  Additional coverage appeared on Wall Street Pit.
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An op-ed by Prof. Robert Frank on building bridges between liberals and conservatives

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Excerpt from USA Today -- "Visionary politics from both the left and right has caused deadlock in our legislative system. And, given eminent domain, public goods and free rider issues, plus the American love of a bureaucratic planning wrangle, we couldn't get politics out of infrastructure even if Ron Paul were king." Additional coverage appeared in The Daily Beast.
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The NYU Stern V-Lab is highlighted as a source for tracking the stability of companies

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Excerpt from Reuters -- "Hersh Shefrin, a finance professor at Santa Clara University in California, says individual investors should look at New York University's Volatility Lab website (See vlab.stern.nyu.edu/) to monitor factors such as leverage, along with a company's overall stability."
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The L2 Innovation Forum, co-hosted by NYU Stern on 11/10, is featured

Excerpt from Fora.tv -- "Along with academics at the NYU Stern School of Business, the L2 Innovation Forum will present a series of lectures from industry thought leaders, authors, marketing specialists and CEOs from a number of well-known retail brands, social media companies and marketing firms."
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NYU Stern is cited as a past winner of the ABI Corporate Restructuring Competition

Excerpt from Targeted News Service -- "Past winners of the Corporate Restructuring Competition include Columbia Business School, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business, Northwestern University Kellogg Graduate School of Management (January 2007 and November 2008), New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business and the Stanford Graduate Business School."
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The Annual Association of Hispanic & Black Business Students Distinguished Alumni Award is featured

Excerpt from ITBriefing.com -- "'I am excited and honored to be recognized by AHBBS and the Stern School of Business,' stated Nana Baffour, CEO and Co-Founder of Midas Medici."
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An op-ed by Prof. Eric Schoenberg on taxes

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "I think that the claim that anybody who favors higher taxes is morally obliged to pay more than they legally owe shows a fundamental misconception about the basis for the social compact we call government." Additional coverage appeared in AllVoices, Reuters, CNNMoney, ABC News, The Huffington Post, CommonDreams.org, enewspf.com, Accounting Today, Afro.com and ThirdAge.
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Prof. Anthony Marciano on the AT&T-T-Mobile merger debate

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Excerpt from International Business Times -- "Marciano pointed out that in this economy, it may be politically toxic to approve of a merger that would lead to significant job cuts."
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Prof. Anat Lechner on the rapper Baba Brinkman

Excerpt from MacCleans -- “He’s a walking example of innovation, differentiation, value-adding and the bizarre. ... These are exactly the things we teach business students to do.”
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Prof. Eric Greenleaf on downtown Manhattan's school overcrowding

Excerpt from Downtown Express -- "When Peck Slip opens in 2015, the neighborhood’s overall school capacity will be four years behind its demand, according to Eric Greenleaf, a professor of New York University’s Stern School of Business and an active member of NYS Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s School Overcrowding Task Force."
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Prof. Daniel Altman on investing in public health

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Excerpt from Foreign Affairs -- "As development economist Daniel Altman recently explained, in a global economy, 'these people are your consumers, your workers, your investors.'"
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A new paper by Prof. Nouriel Roubini on the European fiscal crisis is featured

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Excerpt from Financial Times -- "The fundamental difficulty throughout has been the failure to understand the nature of the crisis. Nouriel Roubini of New York University’s Stern School of Business makes the relevant points in a recent paper."
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Prof. Tulin Erdem on P&G's marketing revamp for Ivory soap

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Tulin Erdem, a professor of marketing at the NYU Stern School of Business, said the campaign tried to keep up 'with the times without sounding too trendy,' while 'mocking lightheartedly the soap industry.'"
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini on economic growth in Indonesia

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Excerpt from Financial Times -- “If Indonesia is going to grow, it is important that this increasing demand is met by supply. It needs more investment in infrastructure, but also in human capital."
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Former Treasury Secretary John Snow Discusses the Global Economy & World Markets with Martin Lipton

The Honorable John Snow, who served as the 73rd United States Treasury Secretary from 2003-2006, sat down with Martin Lipton, chairman of NYU’s Board of Trustees, for a frank discussion on the state of world markets and what’s ahead for the global economy.
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Prof. Panos Ipeirotis on the negative impact of "good-enough" reviews

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Excerpt from O'Reilly Radar -- "The problem with sentiment analysis ... is that it tends to be rather generic, and it's not customized to the context in which people read." Additional coverage appeared in Forbes
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Prof. William Baumol is cited for influencing the work of Economist Dr. Ha-Joon Chang

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Excerpt from Huffington Post -- "Chang acknowledges his work is grounded on welfare economics and market failure theories; he cites Joseph Stieglitz, Amartya Sen and William Baumol among his influences."
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini on the Brazilian economy

Excerpt from Estadao -- "Banks are liquid and solid, the country has grown well in recent years, and the administration of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was a significant reduction of social inequity from the improvement in income distribution, with the increased generation of jobs (translated from Portuguese to English)."
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Prof. Amity Shlaes is cited as a Bastiat Prize 2002 winner & 2011 judge

Excerpt from PR Newswire -- "Previous Bastiat Prize winners were: ... 2002: Sauvik Chakraverti (Economic Times, India) and Amity Shlaes (The Financial Times). ..."
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini on internal devaluations

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Excerpt from The New York Times Paul Krugman blog -- "The international experience of 'internal devaluations' is mostly one of failure. Argentina tried the deflation route to a real depreciation and, after three years of an ever-deepening recession/depression, it defaulted and exited its currency board peg."