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On Thursday, February 2, NYU Stern’s Master of Science in Risk Management program hosted a roundtable entitled “New U.S. Administration:Risky Spotlight on Economy, Trade and China.” Featured speakers included Michael Waugh, NYU Stern Associate Professor of Economics, and David Denoon, Professor of Politics and Economics and Director of the NYU Center on U.S.-China Relations.

On February 1, Professor Kim Schoenholtz moderated a discussion among three leading economists.

Excerpt from The Boston Globe -- "'There’s a reason why teams have fish and [birds] on their helmets and not people,' said Scott Galloway, a professor of marketing at NYU’s Stern School of Business. 'It’s very dangerous for a team to associate itself with anyone but the most likable people in a public way. And politicians are almost always going to alienate at least half your base.'"

Excerpt from the Los Angeles Times -- "'Trump's grandfather immigrated from Germany, so there's a double dose of irony,' said Russell S. Winer, a marketing professor at the New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business. 'I think Americans will like the ad, as they don't think of immigrants from Europe the same way as immigrants from Africa or Muslim countries in the Middle East.'"

Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "'As President Hamilton so eloquently stated, the order and its immediate impact have left many of us with heavy hearts and deep concerns for those who are directly or indirectly affected,' [Henry] wrote. 'As an immigrant who was welcomed to this country almost 40 years ago and proudly became a U.S. citizen, it is a particularly sobering time for me.'"

Excerpt from CityLab -- "...as Friedland and Jeanne Calderon explain in a report for the Stern Center, in EB-5 deals, the developer often serves as both lender and borrower, setting terms for the loan it both generates and receives. 'The fraud uncovered to date spans all parts of the nation,' Friedland and Calderon write."

Excerpt from US News & World Report -- "'Some people may find it surprising that runners actually pick one and another out [to try to beat] at these kind of races, but my experiences speaking with them suggests they indeed do,' said lead author Gavin Kilduff..."

Excerpt from Marketplace -- "Those are going to have a higher price, and that is going to put a dent on the wallet of American consumers and also on the bottom line of American companies."

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "Participation in the projects 'widens students’ perspective of humanity', says Shlomo 'Solly' Angel, a professor at NYU’s Marron Institute of Urban Planning. 'Projects like this have nothing to do with making money,' he says. 'They have to do with students getting acquainted with people who are so different from them in terms of culture, income and outlook.'"

Excerpt from Motherboard -- "The way Eriksson has been living her life for the past year is a glimpse of how a growing number of us will be living in the future, according to Arun Sundararajan, New York University business professor and author of The Sharing Economy. ... 'We’re transitioning into an alternative of corporations and mass production,' Sundararajan says."

Excerpt from The Chronicle of Higher Education -- "No economy ever achieves an absolute separation of commerce and cooperation. Market traders have always needed some basis on which to trust one another, be that recommendation, regulation, or repeat interaction. In his new book, The Sharing Economy, Arun Sundararajan, a professor in New York University’s Stern School of Business, argues that the border between market exchange and social reciprocity is becoming more porous than ever."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at New York University, calls it the clash between globalists and nationalists. The globalists, who tend to be urban and college educated, want a world like the one described in John Lennon’s song 'Imagine' — no religion, walls or borders dividing people. The nationalists see that as a vision of hell. They want to defend their culture and emphasize the bonds of nationhood — flag, Constitution, patriotism. They also want to limit immigration, an instinct that globalists are often quick to condemn as racist."
 

Excerpt from USA Today -- "Thomas Cooley, an economics professor at New York University and former dean of the university's Leonard N. Stern School of Business, agreed, saying that a stronger dollar could cushion the fallout for retailers and other importers. Still, if the proposal goes into effect, 'there will be winners and losers,' he said, with companies that have U.S.-based factories faring far better than their counterparts that don't. 'In that sense,' Cooley said, the proposed tax change 'encourages domestic investment ... in the U.S.'"

Excerpt from Bloomberg View -- "As social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has argued for years, doing things in groups is really hard, and the larger the group, the harder it gets. Moral values like group loyalty -- an instinctive group loyalty, not some dry intellectual thing carefully reasoned from first principles and self-interest -- make it possible for us to do this very difficult thing."

Excerpt from Citi 97.3 FM -- "The five-year project by the NYU Stern School of Business (SIV Ghana) and Adanu, is to among other things to improve education, potable water, health care and small scale businesses in the area. Waodze-Tsatoe community is one of the numerous communities deprived of basic social amenities in the Afadzato South District."

Excerpt from Fortune -- "Belen Villalonga of New York University has found that controlled companies have higher-than-average profitability."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "The new book from a professor of psychology and marketing at NYU Stern and the author of Drunk Tank Pink, the bestselling study of how environmental factors shape how we think and behave. Here, Alter tracks the rise of behavioral addiction – to social media, TV binge-watching, work and more – and explores how we can both set better boundaries and learn to use addictive products for good."

Excerpt from the Foundation for Economic Education -- "Paul Wachtel, an NYU economics professor who was on Greenspan's dissertation committee, defends Greenspan’s work, claiming, 'the chapter written by Greenspan in 1959 on investment risk and stock prices anticipated by 10 years the Q ratio developed in 1969 by the late James Tobin,' who would become a Nobel laureate."

Excerpt from Quartz -- "'There’s a growing concern about the gap between what’s true on the internet and what’s not, and how the internet and these social networks and platforms are affecting both political and social interactions,' said Posner, a former member of the Obama administration and professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Donald Trump’s upset in the US presidential election was viewed as the first 'earth-shaking impact of this kind of bias,' Arun Sundararajan, a professor at NYU Stern who attended the meeting, told Quartz."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "In November, investors were expecting to earn 6.3 percentage points more by owning risky stocks instead of safe bonds, according to Aswath Damodaran, a finance professor at New York University. By Wednesday that premium had shrunk to 5.7 percentage points."

Excerpt from China Radio International -- "What we've seen with artificial intelligence is to some extent, there were many decades where there was a lot promised and very little delivered. But I think now that in some sense, technology, computer systems, the programming has caught up with that potential. People are starting to see that artificial intelligence can, in fact, have big implications for how we do many things."

Excerpt from Luxury Daily -- "'Opening up its bespoke services to everyday clients will help Calvin Klein elevate the customer’s perception of the brand and also intrigue them with the possibility of something both unique and special (as all bespoke items are) as well as representative of the iconic American style the brand ushered in the past with its collections,' [Serdari] said."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "Coined in 1999 by then-Cornell psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger, the eponymous Dunning-Kruger Effect is a cognitive bias whereby people who are incompetent at something are unable to recognize their own incompetence. And not only do they fail to recognize their incompetence, they’re also likely to feel confident that they actually are competent."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "'If you’re vested in growth, you have to be vested in innovation,' noted Luke Williams, a professor of innovation at the NYU Stern School of Business, who spoke Tuesday at Oracle CloudWorld. The challenge for companies is that existing organizations are 'systems of continuity' that tend to resist real change unless they’re under an almost existential threat."