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Prof. Nouriel Roubini on UK gilt rates

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Excerpt from a Financial Times blog -- "Many economists believe that UK gilt rates have not only fallen because of Britain’s economic relative credibility compared to certain eurozone nations and the USA. (Nouriel Roubini has dubbed it 'a beauty contest about the least ugly')."  Additional coverage appeared in The Independent.
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Prof. Aswath Damodaran on the repercussions of the US debt ceiling debate

Excerpt from BVWire News -- "The US will not default next week or in the near future, even if there is no debt ceiling legislation passed by August 2. However, the damage has already have been done."
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NYU Stern is highlighted for using the integrated social software Socialtext

Excerpt from Education Letter -- "More than 6,500 businesses worldwide have accelerated their business performance with Socialtext, including Egon Zehnder, Getty Images, Symantec, Meredith Corporation, NYU Stern, OSIsoft, and Epitaph Records."
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Prof. David Poltrack on selling commercial time based on viewers’ tastes and attitudes to media

Excerpt from Deadline.com -- "The idea, according to Poltrack, is to move away from the simple but perhaps outdated demographic analysis that divides TV watchers by age and sex. Instead, Poltrack offered six “demand profit pool personas” that might serve as valuable targets for marketers."  Additional coverage appeared on Variety, a Variety.com blog, FilmSchoolRejects.com and Mediapost.com.
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Vice Chairman of NYU's Trustees and Vice Chairman of Stern's Overseers Kenneth Langone is featured

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "The Mayor's Fund's federal tax return shows it operates out of city offices under a contract and supports various city programs, including those aimed at poverty and planting trees. Its board members include bold-face names and philanthropists such as Kenneth Langone, former chairman of the New York Stock Exchange."
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Prof. Lawrence White on the US debt-limit compromise

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Sean Egan, president of Egan-Jones Ratings Co., Lawrence White, economics professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, and Bloomberg News reporter David Lynch talk about the U.S. debt-limit compromise signed into law today and the outlook for Treasuries and the economy. They speak with Pimm Fox on Bloomberg Television's 'Taking Stock.'"  Additional coverage appeared on Bloomberg TV and Seeking Alpha.
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Prof. Aswath Damodaran's research on stocks is featured

Excerpt from Motley Fool - "Study after study has shown that stocks with low price-to-earnings multiples significantly outperform high P/E stocks. Research from my favorite investing guru, NYU professor Aswath Damodaran, pegged the outperformance at anywhere from 9% to 12% per year, depending on the study period."
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NYU Stern Faculty Authors of "Guaranteed to Fail" on Mortgage Finance Reform

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Excerpt from Reuters -- "Economist Lawrence J White, who teaches at New York University's Stern School of Business, and three Stern colleagues – Viral Acharya, Matthew Richardson and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh – said in a recently published book, Guaranteed to fail: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the debacle of mortgage finance, that a new approach is needed to revitalize housing finance."
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Prof. Baruch Lev on the benefits of corporate contributions to nonprofits

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Excerpt from TheStreet.com -- "The evidence shows that, done the right way, corporate contributions can indeed be good for both the company performance and society," says Baruch Lev, director of the Vincent C. Ross Institute of Accounting Research and the Philip Bardes Professor of Accounting and Finance at the NYU Stern School of Business.  Additional coverage appeared on DigitalJournal.com, KCTV5.com, The Sacramento Bee and ABC12.com.
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Prof. Kenneth Froewiss on Obama considering former governor Jon Corzine for a federal position

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Excerpt from Reuters -- "I doubt that it's likely to happen," said Kenneth C. Froewiss, a finance professor at New York University's Stern School of Business. "Probably more a case of investor wariness."  Additional coverage appeared on Opalesque.
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Member of the Executive Board and Prof. Richard Bernstein on the stock market

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Excerpt from CNBC -- "CNBC Contributor and former Merrill Lynch chief investment strategist Richard Bernstein of Richard Bernstein Advisors tells us a buying opportunity may be just around the corner."  Additional coverage appeared on TheStreet.com and optionMONSTER.
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Prof. Paul Wachtel on China's economic outlook

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Excerpt from MarketWatch -- “Even with substantial appreciation of the Chinese currency, the power of Chinese manufacturing is not going to go away. China’s ability to export to the rest of the world has been built up to an enormous position of strength, which is not disappearing,”
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini's views on the euro's chances of survival are highlighted

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Excerpt from Newsday -- "The zone, he wrote, is an artificial construct that simply doesn't work, given the incompatibilities between slow-growth members like Greece and dynamic economies like Germany."  Additional coverage appeared in Global Post.
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini's Crisis Economics, is a book the "US Government Needs To Read"

Excerpt from Benzinga.com -- "This recent book written by Nouriel Roubini, the "Dr. Doom" of the financial world, and Stephen Mihm, a journalist and professor of economic history, does well in shedding some light on the history of financial crises and their causes."
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini shares his outlook on China's economy

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Excerpt from Citywire -- "Nouriel Roubini, who is particularly bearish on the Chinese economy in part for this reason, says ‘the path of least resistance is the status quo’ and contrary to the government’s rhetoric China will remain so reliant on investment that it will suffer a ‘hard landing’."
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini on the US debt ceiling debate and economic outlook

Excerpt from Rediff Business -- "Roubini, who is famous as one of the few people who foretold the financial meltdown of 2008, said in a tweet posted last week that tax cuts of the past were ill-advised. 'Federal taxes were 20% of GDP at time of a balanced budget. Now down to 14% the lowest in 60 years. So any deficit reduction requires tax hikes,' he tweeted." Additional coverage appeared on Sky News.
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini on the global economic outlook

Excerpt from Evening Standard -- New York economics professor Nouriel Roubini, dubbed Doctor Doom after he predicted the financial crisis, said that the bond market "is a beauty contest about the least ugly"... Additional coverage appeared on a FT.com blog.
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence's economic concept of "signaling" is referenced

Excerpt from the Jakarta Globe -- "Perhaps all this amped-up degree-getting just represents job market “signaling” — the economist A. Michael Spence’s Nobel-worthy notion that degrees are less valuable for what you learn than for broadcasting your go-get-’em qualities."
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Prof. Joel Rubinson on Walmart's decision to share point-of-sale data

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Excerpt from a Forbes.com blog -- Joel Rubinson of Rubinson Partners predicts that “ultimately the consumer will be the winner as Walmart and its vendors make better marketing decisions that add more value to daily life.”
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Professors Priya Raghubir, Vicki Morwitz and Amitav Chakravarti’s research

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Excerpt from Irish Times -- "But a study in the Journal of Consumer Psychology earlier this year looked more rigorously at this bias in time perception. The experiments suggest that the phenomenon happens not only on long trips to and from from home, but on shorter excursions too, and also on journeys to a familiar destination that isn’t home."
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence discusses the US economy and Italy's debt problems

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "To restore fiscal balance on a reasonable time horizon, without doing it too quickly and killing off growth, is a problem nobody actually knows how to solve, and we're going to have to work through it together. In this political climate I don't know how that's going to go, but the challenge is to maintain in the government's budget the things that tend to supoprt medium- and long-term growth..."
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Prof. Lawrence White's policy proposal for improving ICANN's governance

Excerpt from Information Technology Newsweekly -- "According to the authors of a study from New York City, New York, 'The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has control over extremely important aspects of the Internet. Yet, its non-profit corporation status, combined with the way that it is funded and governed, make accountability a serious problem.'"
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A speech by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on financial reform at NYU Stern is featured

Excerpt from Minyanville.com -- "Last August, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner used a speech at New York University’s Stern School of Business to outline a few financial reform principles necessary to quickly and properly execute the newly passed Dodd-Frank Act."