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Prof. Viral Acharya on Bank of America

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Excerpt from PBS Nightly Business Report -- "Bank of America`s somewhat greater exposure to the mortgage and its greater leverage have made it particularly vulnerable."
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Prof. David Backus on consumer spending

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "David Backus, an economics professor at NYU's Stern School of Business, says consumer spending as a percentage of gross domestic product has remained steady, and actually increased as the GDP dipped after the recession."
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An interview with Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence on policy responses to the financial crisis

Excerpt from Janelaweb.com -- "Politics is impeding a forceful policy response to a difficult and challenging economic situation in many countries and the EU as a whole."
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Prof. Robert Whitelaw is cited as the chief strategist of IndexIQ

Excerpt from FIN Alternatives -- "We attracted Professor Robert Whitelaw, who is chairman of the finance department at New York University, to be our chief strategist."
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Prof. Paul Wachtel on the effects of the S&P downgrade of the US credit rating

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Excerpt from China Daily -- "'The decision today doesn't constrain the Fed in any way. It was already quite obvious - given the state of the economy - that the Fed was not going to raise rates for a long time. Saying so doesn't change the situation,' said Paul Wachtel, an economics professor at New York University."
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Prof. Baruch Lev will speak at AFP's Executive Institute in November

Excerpt from States News Service -- "Winning Investors Over, a luncheon address by Baruch Lev, Philip Bardes Professor of Accounting and Finance, NYU, Stern School of Business."
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An in-depth Q&A with Prof. Nouriel Roubini on the world economy

Excerpt from Chronicle.SU -- "In mid-July, world renowned economist Nouriel Roubini sat down with Chronicle.SU’s Anton OyVey for a fireside chat at Bohemian Grove 2011. They discussed the next 18 months of world events, including the Debt Crisis and stock market crash."
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NYU Stern will host the Ultra Light Start-ups Pitch Showdown on August 11

Excerpt from NYConvergence -- "On Thursday, August 11, Ultra Light Startups will be hosting a Feedback Forum and Pitch Showdown at the NYU Stern Business School at 6:30 pm. There will be 10 startups pitching to investors, audience voting on their favorite pitches and drinks afterwards."
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini on the probability of a double-dip recession

Excerpt from Piers Morgan Tonight -- Roubini says "the probability of a double dip recession right now is at least 50 percent."  Additional coverage appeared on a CNN blog and Reuters.
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Prof. Edward Altman contributed to a piece on falling stock prices

Excerpt from Slate -- "How does the stock-price plunge affect corporations? Stocks have lost $8.1 trillion worldwide since July 24, representing 14.8 percent of global market capitalization. Investors are clearly taking a major hit, since they own the stocks. But does a drop in share price matter to the individual corporations in question?"
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Prof. Daniel Altman's book, "Outrageous Fortunes," is featured

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Excerpt from CBC -- "Economist and author Daniel Altman says there is a fairly simple explanation for America's complicated debt crisis: narcissism. He addresses the problem in his latest book, 'Outrageous Fortunes: Twelve Surprising Trends That Will Reshape the Global Economy.'"
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Prof. Bernard Donefer on the recent trading volumes

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Excerpt from Marketplace -- "Bernard Donefer is associate director of the Subotnick Financial Services Center, part of Baruch College and City University of New York. He says, 'Over the last couple of trading days, we have seen trading volumes in the 10 billion trade and up range, which is just phenomenal.'" Additional coverage appeared on NYConvergence.
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini on the European Central Bank

Excerpt from FXStreet.com -- "According to NYU professor Nouriel Roubini, the ECB should lower rates to zero and make large purchases of government bonds." Additional coverage appeared on aiCIO and Business Spectator.
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini on US job creation

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Excerpt from a TIME blog -- "As I've said before, the quickest route to job creation is to revive the small and medium-sized banks that lend to small businesses, along with the homeowners paralyzed by mortgage debt. To do this, Nouriel Roubini says we need an orderly debt restructuring."
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Prof. Lawrence White on the history of ratings agencies

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Excerpt from NPR -- "But the business started to change in the late 1960s. Instead of charging investors, the rating agencies started to take money from the issuers of the bonds. White blames the shift on the invention of 'the high-speed photocopy machine.'"  Additional coverage appeared on KOSU.org.
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Prof. Stephen Brown's research on funds of hedge funds is highlighted

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Excerpt from Risk Magazine -- "Brown and his research team analysed the impact of diversification on the performance of 3,767 FoHFs that reported monthly returns and the number of their underlying fund holdings to the BarclayHedge database between January 2000 and March 2010."  Additional coverage appeared in Investment Weekly News.
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence on global economic growth

Excerpt from Windsor Patch -- "I recently had the opportunity to speak with Noble Laureate economist Michael Spence, who said global growth is going to come from the tradable sector of the economy."
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Prof. Aswath Damodaran on ratings agencies

Excerpt from GoodReturns.in -- "Aswath Damodaran, Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University, was more merciful as he explained the rating agencies as following wrote on his blog, 'Ratings agencies have more in common with politicians than you may realize: specifically, they are more likely to be followers than leaders.'"
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Prof. Daniel Altman on the fear and uncertainty driving market volatility

Excerpt from Australian Broadcasting Corporation -- "It's clear that the markets didn't have a chance to react on Friday to this news from Standard and Poor's, so there is some mechanical trading as a result of what happens with the downgrade," [Daniel Altman] said.
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Prof. Tulin Erdem is highlighted as a member of the 2011 Parlin Award Board of Governors

Excerpt from Targeted News Service -- "The Charles Coolidge Parlin Marketing Research Award was established in 1945 by the Philadelphia Chapter of the AMA and The Wharton School in association with the Curtis Publishing Company to honor distinguished academics and practitioners who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and sustained impact on the evolving profession of marketing research over an extended period."
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NYU Life Trustee and Chairman Emeritus of the Overseers Henry Kaufman on US credit expansion

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Excerpt from a Reuters blog -- "Economists from Irving Fisher to Henry Kaufman have noted that without credit expansion, the US economy cannot grow."
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini on the outlook for advanced economies

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "The U.S. economy is heading into a 'double-dip' recession, Nouriel Roubini, the co-founder and chairman of New York-based Roubini Global Economics LLC, said in an interview on Bloomberg Television. The European Central Bank can’t keep buying Italian and Spanish bonds for too long, he said. Advanced economies, including Japan and the U.K., are in trouble, Roubini said."
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Prof. Lawrence White on US credit ratings

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Excerpt from Reuters -- "NYU Economics Professor Lawrence White disagrees with Moody's and Fitch's decisions to maintain a triple-A rating for U.S. debt."  Additional coverage appeared in Fortune, CNNMoney and KNX CBS Radio, Los Angeles.
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Prof. Lawrence White on regulation of credit ratings agencies

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Ratings became more important in the 1930s when banking regulators decided banks couldn't invest in securities deemed "speculative" by ratings firms. Those restrictions were expanded to include insurers, pension funds and securities firms, according to Lawrence White, a New York University economics professor."  Additional coverage appeared in Zee News.