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Prof. Viral Acharya on how to fix the US housing market

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Excerpt from Yahoo! Finance -- "'Just the way we recapitalized the financial sector, I think there was a very good case for recapitalizing the households,' says Acharya."  Additional coverage appeared in Business Insider and Moneynews.
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Prof. Viral Acharya on Bank of America's systemic risk

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Excerpt from Yahoo! Finance -- "Of all the U.S. banks, NYU Stern Finance Professor Viral Acharya, considers Bank of America to be the most 'systemically risky.' In the accompanying interview, Acharya, author of Regulating Wall Street, describes his method for assessing bank risk."
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Prof. Steven Blader's research on how people of different statuses interact is featured

Excerpt from Science Letter -- "How do individuals with higher status react to their encounters with lower-status counterparts? Four studies explore this issue, focusing on higher-status parties' concerns with the outcome favorability and procedural fairness of those encounters."
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NYU Stern served on a committee that chose the 2011 UNOP Leader of Change Award

Excerpt from LaLate -- "[Ricky] Martin was chosen by a special committee compromised of reps from the UNOP, NYU Stern School of Business, and the Foundation for Social Change."
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Prof. Viral Acharya on giving Fed loans to Morgan Stanley

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "It’s probable the central bank would again lend to a big firm such as Morgan Stanley if another crisis hit, said Viral Acharya, a New York University finance professor who serves as an academic adviser to the Fed"
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An op-ed by Prof. Adam Alter on decisions made by crowds

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Excerpt from Psychology Today -- "Many contemporary western societies are drawn to the idea that decisions improve as we incorporate more voices."
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini on the Fed's quantitative easing programs and the global economy

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Excerpt from CNBC -- "'Market up today only because (it) expects that Ben will come by helicopter to Jackson Hole to dispense QE3,' Nouriel Roubini, head of Roubini Global Economics, tweeted on his Twitter account early Monday."  Additional coverage appeared on CNBC, two The Guardian pieces, Monthly Review, The Toronto Star, three Business Insider pieces, Street Authority, Irish Independent, three Politico pieces, FXStreet.com, San Francisco Chronicle, HoweStreet.com, Troy Media, Hurriyet Daily News, AdvisorOne, Philly.com, Today's Zaman, Colorado Springs Independent, The Independent, StreetAuthority, FrumForum, The Telegraph, Financial News, The Daily Caller, People's Daily, Bloomberg, TIME blog and Examiner.      
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An op-ed by Prof. Amity Shlaes on how congress can help markets

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "The best thing Congress can do to help the markets is nothing at all."  Additional coverage on Bloomberg, San Francisco Chronicle, San Diego Source, Philadelphia Inquirer and Vancouver Sun.
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Prof. Justin Kruger's research on people's assessment of their own knowledge is featured

Excerpt from FreeThoughtsBlogs.com -- "This and many other studies show you believe you see more of other people’s icebergs than they see of yours; meanwhile, they think the same thing about you."
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence will speak at The Economist’s High Growth Markets Summit

Excerpt from Massey University News -- "Other leading thinkers this year include US economist and Nobel Laureate Michael Spence, China’s vice-minister of foreign affairs Fu Ying, Brazil’s former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and Colombia’s finance and public credit minister Juan Carlos Echeverry."
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Prof. Scott Galloway's Financial Services Digital IT Index is highlighted

Excerpt from TheFinancialBrand.com -- "The Financial Services Digital IQ Index scored each financial institution along four key factors: website, digital marketing, mobile and social media. Those with a combined IQ score above 140 were classified as 'genius,' followed by 'gifted,' 'average,' and 'challenged.'"
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Prof. David Yermack's research on how CEO home purchases affect stock performance is highlighted

Excerpt from Minyanville -- "Cornell professor Crocker Liu (then at Arizona State) and New York University professor David Yermack released a study called 'Where are the shareholders’ mansions?' which found that 'future company performance deteriorates when CEOs acquire extremely large or costly mansions and estates.'"
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Prof. Paul Romer's paper on profiting from bankruptcy is cited

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Excerpt from Business Insider -- "There is a moral component to this crisis and 'looting' is the key. George Akerlof and Paul Romer captured the component in the title of their famous 1993 article ('Looting: the Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit')."  Additional coverage appeared on MotherJones.com.
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Vice Chairman of NYU Trustees and Chairman of the Board of Overseers William Berkley is quoted

Excerpt from Insurancenewsnet.com -- "William Berkley, chairman and chief executive officer of W.R. Berkley Group, said what many U.S. insurance industry representatives have said of Solvency II: 'It is tremendously invasive.'"
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An interview with Prof. Viral Acharya on home ownership subsidies

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Excerpt from NPR: All Things Considered -- "Our long-term proposal is to reduce the extent of home ownership subsidies that we are providing, so wind down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the long run, and second, remove the tax deductibility of mortgage interest rates so we are not distorting the system to over-borrow on houses." Additional coverage appeared on WBUR.org, WNYC and KOSU.org.
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The 2011 NYU Stern New Venture Competition winner, CourseHorse.com, is featured

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Excerpt from Crain's New York Business -- "Taking a class in a personal interest like cooking or creative writing may be exciting, but digging through local schools' websites to find and compare available options can be tedious. CourseHorse, a startup that won $75,000 in the New York University New Venture Competition in April, aims to simplify the hunt."  Additional coverage appeared on NYConvergence.
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An interview with Prof. Richard Sylla on the US economy post the 2008 crash

Excerpt from Australian Broadcasting Corporation -- "I think when this is all over and things get to be more normal again, we'll look back on it and say, 'Well, Bernanke didn't turn things around right away, but he prevented something much worse from happening.'"  Additional coverage appeared in Credit Writedowns.
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Prof. April Klein's research on reverse stock splits is referenced

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Excerpt from Barron's -- "April Klein of the Stern School of Business at NYU, along with Seoyoung Kim and James Rosenthal, both of Emory University's Goizueta School of Business, tracked more than 1,600 reverse splits done from 1962 through 2001."
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Prof. Robert Gordon on "tax-loss harvesting"

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "New York's billionaire mayor Michael Bloomberg disclosed earlier this year that he will declare no net capital gains on his 2010 tax return. Robert Gordon, who heads Twenty-First Securities, believes that, in part, is due to wise loss harvesting during the 2008 meltdown."
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Prof. Nathan Pettit on shopping to restore happiness

Excerpt from Miami Herald -- "'There are 100 ways to restore your self worth,' says Nathan Pettit, an assistant professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business."
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence and Prof. Nouriel Roubini on the global economy

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Excerpt from The Australian -- "Economic guru Nouriel Roubini, predictor of the global financial crisis, says 'most advanced economies are on the brink of a double-dip recession' ... US Nobel laureate economist Michael Spence, visiting Australia, warns the world is facing a 'pretty tough decade.'"
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Prof. Viral Acharya on the European banking crisis

Excerpt from International Herald Tribune -- ‘‘'In a crisis, spreads widen because no one wants to lend long term,’' said Mr. Acharya, who has studied the interbank market."
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Prof. Richard Sylla's book, "A History of Interested rates," is referenced

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal blog -- "As Sidney Homer and Richard Sylla point out in their wonk classic 'A History of Interest Rates': During the years 1932-1936 business recovered substantially and commodity prices rose 35%."
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Prof. Richard Sylla on the US credit rating

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Excerpt from Marketplace Radio -- "Longer run, if we don't get out from under the AA rating, we may have to pay a slightly higher interest rate, but it's not the end of the world."