Faculty News

In an op-ed, Prof. Jeffrey Kaplan discusses 20 years of compliance programs

Excerpt from Corporate Compliance Insights -- "Nov. 1 will mark the 20th anniversary of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations, and of the expectations that they created concerning compliance and ethics programs."
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Prof. Aswath Damodaran's data, indicating corporate taxes vary by sector, is highlighted

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Excerpt from the San Francisco Chronicle -- "Aswath Damodaran, Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University, calculated the average tax rate of various business sectors using public financial statements." Additional coverage appeared in FInancial Edge.
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Robert Engle on Ben Bernanke's plans for US fiscal policy

Excerpt from Business Recorder -- "I don't think there's much he can do about it. We need fiscal stimulus and monetary policy has done as much as it could do."
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Research on systemic risk by NYU Stern faculty is cited

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Excerpt from VoxEU.org -- "A useful review of such strategies is provided by Acharya et al (2009); the IMF (2010) highlights the importance of recognising tail risk in financial stability analysis."
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An op-ed by Prof. Amity Shlaes on how the level of government activity affects markets

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "This week, we looked at the so-called Congressional Effect, the phenomenon whereby stocks rise more when Congress is out of session. The data underlying that effect suggest that active government chills markets."
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Executive Board Member and Prof. Richard Bernstein (MBA '87) on Warren Buffett

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Excerpt from Reuters -- "'Mr. Buffett is a very shrewd investor and is not altruistic at all. The terms he gets are very favorable to him,' said Richard Bernstein."
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence is highlighted for winning the Nobel Prize in 2001

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Excerpt from Xinhua News -- "Stiglitz was awarded the Nobel Economics Prize in 2001 together with George Akerlof and Michael Spence for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information."
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Robert Engle on the need for additional stimulus

Excerpt from NASDAQ -- "Robert Engle, who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in economics, said Friday that the U.S. 'hasn't learned the lessons of 1929,' and that the U.S. economy needs more short-term stimulus to recover."
School News

Undergraduate student Scott Gamm offers financial advice to college students

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Excerpt from NBC -- "Start putting 15 or $20 a month into that Roth IRA retirement account. You'll benefit from the compounding interest and watch your money grow."
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Prof. Thomas Sargent is highlighted for co-founding "Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium"

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Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "Robert Lucas ... and Chicago colleagues, along with others such as Edward Prescott and Thomas Sargent, are the founders of the programme known as 'dynamic stochastic general equilibrium' (DSGE), which dominates teaching and research in macroeconomics."
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Prof. Ralph Gomory on China's economic growth

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "Or to echo Ralph Gomory, former president of the Sloan Foundation and head scientist at IBM, America's response to the Chinese challenge requires an alignment of the interests of its companies with the interest of the country."  Additional coverage appeared on NewDeal20.org.
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Prof. Roy Smith on the success of Barclays's M&A team

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Excerpt from Reuters -- "'The real question is, despite their early apparent success maintaining the client relationships they had, are they going to be able to hang on to all that?' Smith said."  Additional coverage appeared on CNBC.
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Prof. Daniel Altman's research on the benefits of social investments is featured

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Excerpt from BigThink -- "In their recent paper The Single Bottom Line, Altman and Berman argue that companies need to evaluate their social and environmental efforts in terms of their impact on the classic, single bottom line – profit."
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini predicts a third round of Fed quantitative easing

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Excerpt from CNBC -- "A third round of quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve is coming by year end, influential economist Nouriel Roubini told CNBC Thursday."  Additional coverage appeared in Forbes, Business Insider, Creditwritedowns.com, Forex news Now, First Post and Toronto Star.
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence will serve on the academic board of the Fung Global Institute

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "A. Michael Spence, the winner in 2001 of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science and the former dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business in California, will be the chairman of the academic board."  Additional coverage appeared in The Standard, Associated Press, Financial Times blog, BusinessDay and more than 50 additional outlets.
Press Releases

New NYU Stern Study Explains Why People in Power Don’t Take Advice

Incorporating advice from others can improve decision making, yet all too often, powerful people ignore it, according to new research from NYU Stern Management Professors Kelly E. See and Elizabeth W. Morrison, along with co-authors Naomi B. Rothman of Lehigh University and Jack B. Soll of Duke University.
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Prof. Aswath Damodaran is featured for co-creating an app, uValue

Excerpt from States News Service -- "Tuck valuation expert Anant Sundaram has collaborated with Stern school’s Aswath Damodaran to create a new valuation app called uValue for all levels of investors."
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Profs Kelly See and Elizabeth Morrison's research on people in power is featured

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Excerpt from Forbes -- “'Once you’re in a position of power, it tends to make you more confident in your decisions,' explains See."
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Prof. Scott Galloway on Steve Jobs's resignation as CEO of Apple Inc.

Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "Eugene Munster, analyst at Piper Jaffray Cos., Scott Galloway, professor at New York University, Alan Deutschman, a professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, and Om Malik, founder of the technology blog GigaOM, talk about Steve Jobs's resignation as chief executive officer of Apple Inc." Additional coverage appeared on Bloomberg TV and two Washington Post pieces.
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Prof. Michael Jung's study, on how access to corporate management benefits investors, is featured

Excerpt from Forbes -- "We examine whether investors benefit from 'selective access' to corporate managers, which we define as the opportunity for investors to meet privately with management in individual or small-group settings."
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Prof. David Poltrack on TV's summer programming

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Excerpt from USA Today -- "For them, 'producing original scripted content for the summer doesn't work out on the bottom line,' says CBS research chief David Poltrack."
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An interview with Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence on the US economic leadership

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Excerpt from the Council on Foreign Relations -- "The Fed is doing what it can--and that is mainly not to do anything to damage a fragile return to economic health."
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A presentation by Prof. Paul Zarowin on earnings per share (EPS) is referenced

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Excerpt from Seeking Alpha -- "For more detail, check out this presentation by Paul Zarowin, a Professor of Accounting at the Stern School of Business, New York University."
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Executive Board Member and Prof. Richard Bernstein (MBA '87) shares his market predictions

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Excerpt from CNBC -- "And with the Dow coming off its best gain in two weeks, we'll be speaking with investment strategist Richard Bernstein about his S&P target for the end of the year and what he expects from Fed Chief Ben Bernanke on Friday."  Additional coverage appeared on CNBC and Seeking Alpha.
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An interview with Prof. Viral Acharya on the downsides of mortgage tax breaks

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Excerpt from NPR -- "The biggest effect of removal of subsidies is going to be that people will buy the houses they can afford."