Faculty News

Professor Aswath Damodaran's research on stock market returns is referenced

Excerpt from NASDAQ -- "From 2007 to 2016, Standard & Poor's 500-stock index delivered an average annual total return of 8.7%, according to Aswath Damodaran of New York University's Stern School of Business."
Faculty News

Professor Anindya Ghose discusses privacy and digital marketing, from his book, "Tap"

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Excerpt from WashingTECH -- "In my book, I talk about the important distinction that policymakers should provide between government use of our data and corporate use of our data. So what I mean by that is, if Amazon or Google or Apple, any other company, is trying to send me an offer or a message and that's not relevant or that's not well targeted, it may end up being annoying. But it's not going to completely change my life. Whereas, we've also seen issues about government use of our data that goes to the extent of extreme surveillance. So I would like the average consumer to be embracing the distinction between government use of data and corporate use of data, and I think policymakers should also embrace that distinction."
Business and Policy Leader Events

"Climate Action: Mobilizing the World" with António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations

On Tuesday, May 30, The United Nations and New York University Stern School of Business welcomed António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, for an event entitled "Climate Action: Mobilizing the World."  
Faculty News

Professor Adam Alter's TED talk on the impact of mobile devices on free time is featured

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Excerpt from Business Insider -- "Alter said in his talk that screens 'rob us of stopping cues,' which are signals that remind us to move on. The distraction and entertainment is constant, unlike a newspaper which finishes when you reach the end. Instead, there is no obvious time to stop — so we don't."
Faculty News

Professor David Yermack is interviewed about bitcoin's growth

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Excerpt from WIRED -- "'But do you really expect to keep seeing returns of 200 to 300 percent?' says David Yermack, a New York University professor of finance. 'You'd have to have all the wealth in the world in bitcoin to keep that up.' In other words, past performance is not indicative of future results."
Faculty News

Professor Luke Williams' remarks at the Token Summit, hosted by Stern's Berkley Innovation Labs, are featured

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Excerpt from Forbes -- "The recognition that the few hundred people in the room had barely started their journey was reflected in remarks by NYU Stern Business School professor Luke Williams. 'It takes a long time for people’s thinking to catch up to the technology,' he said. 'One of the reasons we’re here today is to allow our thinking to keep track with the mechanism of technology. Thinking changes much slower because we’re dealing with really well-established concepts like money.'"
Faculty News

Professor Rosa Abrantes-Metz's work on detecting manipulation of gold prices is referenced

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Excerpt from Commodity Trade Mantra -- "I also spoke to Professor Rosa Abrantes-Metz at the New York University Stern School of Business. She is the leading expert on globe price manipulation. She actually testifies in gold price manipulation cases that are going on. She wrote a report reaching the same conclusions. It’s not just an opinion, it’s not just a deep, dark conspiracy theory. Here’s a PhD statistician and a prominent market expert lawyer, expert witness in litigation qualified by the courts, who independently reached the same conclusion."
Faculty News

Professor Robert Engle's award of a grant from Norges Bank Investment Management for research on climate change's impact on financial risk is featured

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Excerpt from Xinhua -- "Robert Engle, from the New York University's Stern School of Business and the Nobel prize winner in 2003, has been awarded almost 324,000 U.S. dollars for the period of three years. Engle will try to measure the connection between climate changes and risk and return in the management of oil fund money."
Faculty News

Professor Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh's research on REITs is featured

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Excerpt from ETF.com -- "As Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh shows in his April 2017 paper 'Why Are REITs Currently So Expensive?,' REIT valuations have changed over time. He showed that for the period 1972 through 2004, the price-dividend ratio (the inverse of the dividend yield, or D/P) on publicly owned REITs ranged between about 12 and 18."
School News

The Token Summit at NYU Stern is highlighted

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Excerpt from Coindesk.com -- "To kick off the event, hosted at the NYU Stern School of Business, one of the earliest innovators in the crypto-space, Erik Voorhees – who sold his first bitcoin company, Satoshi Dice, in 2013 – revealed more details about digital currency exchange ShapeShift's new product, Prism."
Faculty News

Professor Adam Alter is interviewed about behavioral addiction and technology, from his book, "Irresistible"

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Excerpt from Fox News -- "Every time you check an email, it could be something fantastic or it could be something mundane or maybe you don't have one at all. The same is true of every social media experience you have. You send something out into the world, sometimes you get great feedback, sometimes you don't. And that question mark is something that humans find really compelling."
Faculty News

Professor Xavier Gabaix's research on behavioral economics is referenced

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Excerpt from Bloomberg View -- "Xavier Gabaix of New York University, for example, has been experimenting with one that seeks to account for human limitations in foreseeing the future and adjusting their behavior. One important insight: Because people don’t actually smooth their consumption perfectly over the life cycle, fiscal stimulus or 'helicopter drops of money' really can get them to spend more and help pull an economy out of recession."
Faculty News

Professor Melissa Schilling's research on the link between diabetes and Alzheimer's disease is featured

Excerpt from A Sweet Life -- "Her 2016 paper in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease estimated that 40% of all Alzheimer’s cases were connected to hyperinsulinemia, or excess levels of insulin relative to glucose in the blood. That would include not just people with diabetes but the 86 million Americans estimated by the CDC to have prediabetes. 'If we can raise awareness and get more people tested for hyperinsulinemia … it could significantly lessen the incidence of Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia, as well as other diabetes-related health problems,' Schilling said in a press release."
School News

Undergraduate student Stephen Benvenuto is interviewed about the value of a computer science background in the finance industry

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Excerpt from Reuters -- "'A background in computer science or generally programming is incredibly helpful for the finance industry,' said Stephen Benvenuto Jr., a junior at the Stern School of Business at New York University, who is majoring in finance and considering pursuing a CFA credential. 'It's definitely moving in that direction.'"
School News

Stern's new one-year MBA programs in Tech and Fashion & Luxury are featured; Vice Dean of Programs and Online Learning Raghu Sundaram is quoted

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Excerpt from Accepted.com -- "New York University’s Stern School of Business’s new Tech MBA and Fashion & Luxury MBAs will enable students who are firmly committed to business careers in those areas to build applicable skills and knowledge, gain relevant real-world experience, and earn an MBA in one year by taking 51 credits over the 12-month period. The first class for the Tech MBA and Fashion & Luxury MBA will enroll at Stern in May 2018. Stern anticipates that the inaugural classes will have 30 students in each specialty."
School News

Research Scholar Patrick Lamson-Hall is interviewed about the Urbanization Project's work in the Philippines

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Excerpt from BusinessWorld Online -- "'Davao is a rapidly growing city and it has a lot of potential for open public spaces,' NYU Urban Expansion Program research team head Patrick Lamson-Hall said in an interview. Mr. Lamson and MBA students from NYU’s Stern School of Business are spearheading the research and have trained members of the Sustainable Davao Movement, city government officials and volunteers for the data gathering conducted on May 20-21."
Faculty News

Professor Arun Sundararajan comments on Airbnb's partnerships with local governments

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Excerpt from Bloomberg BNA -- "'It would make sense for the company to put out as much information as it can to quell concerns about regulatory pushback,' Sundararajan told Bloomberg BNA. 'They’ve expanded globally, they’re far and away the market leader in their category, so the single biggest source of uncertainty about Airbnb’s revenue stream is regulator risk.'"
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Professors Laura Veldkamp and Venky Venkateswaran's joint research on the impact of economic shocks is featured

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Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "Another explanation is that the 2008 crisis is lingering in our minds, in the form of heightened fear that rare but consequential 'black swan' events could be imminent, despite moderately strong consumer-confidence measures and relatively low financial-market volatility (with some exceptions). A recent paper by New York University’s Julian Kozlowski, Laura Veldkamp, and Venky Venkateswaran argues that it is rational to harbor such fears, because once a formerly unthinkable event actually occurs, one is justified in not forgetting it."
Research Center Events

Center For Sustainable Business Book Discussion With Jack Ewing

On May 23, the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business and Ethical Systems welcomed Jack Ewing, European Economics Correspondent for The New York Times, for a discussion of his new book Faster, Higher, Farther: The Volkswagen Scandal.
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Professor Anindya Ghose is interviewed about mobile advertising and his book, "Tap"

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Excerpt from Smart People Podcast -- "...What's happening over the last 4 or 5 years is that consumer usage of mobile phones and tablets has dramatically increased. It means we are spending more and more of our time there, whereas we're essentially reducing our time spent on television and newspapers and magazines, so on. Businesses find it valuable to be in those spaces, where consumers are, because then you can have a conversation with your consumer. You can have their attention."
Faculty News

Professor Arun Sundararajan is featured in a story about Hello Alfred's business model

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Excerpt from Fast Company -- "Arun Sundararajan, a professor at New York University and author of the upcoming book The Sharing Economy, says that Hello Alfred has a business model that lends itself to hiring employees. 'It doesn’t make sense for them to use contractors on-demand because they’re trying to get individuals who keep going back to the same apartment,' he says. 'There’s trust that needs to build up between the customer and the Alfred.'"
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Professors Holger Mueller and Constantine Yannelis' joint research on student loan repayment is referenced

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Excerpt from Fast Company -- "Research on student debt and its potential effects on the economy abounds, but it tends to focus on millennials. 'Students in Distress,' an excellent study on default-related labor market shocks from NYU Stern’s Holger Mueller and Constantine Yannelis, is one recent example."
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Professor Adam Alter discusses the addictive nature of social media, from his book, "Irresistible"

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Excerpt from Vice -- "'The like button, simple as it was, tapped into a bottomless font of social feedback,' explains Adam Alter, author of Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked. 'And I don't think social media companies are trying to make "addictive" platforms, per se. But since they're all competing for our (limited) time and attention, they've always been focused on making the most engaging experience possible.'"
Faculty News

Dean Peter Henry is interviewed about his tenure as Dean

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Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "'For the last seven-and-a-half years, we’ve been really focused on articulating what is a 21st Century vision for a business school whose roots are in Wall Street, but whose future lies as much in emerging economies and Silicon Alley and the new economy as it does in its still relevant past history,' Henry says."
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In an in-depth interview, Professor Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh discusses Belgian real estate finance

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Excerpt from De Tijd -- "If you can borrow without your own contribution, house prices will rise. You ultimately borrow more with the same income, so homes are still unpredictable for this group. The same is true of the systematic extension of the duration of a Belgian mortgage loan: if the monthly repayment amount decreases, house prices rise. So people always have to borrow more."