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On April 4 and 5, the NYU Stern Urbanization Project and UN-Habitat released the preliminary results of Monitoring Global Urban Expansion, a research program exploring the characteristics of the world’s 4,230 cities, at the Habitat III Thematic Meeting on Public Space in Barcelona, Spain. 

Excerpt from Inc. -- "Based on our own research last summer during the NYU Launchpad Program, when we talked to hundreds of potential users--we even put up a lemonade stand in Washington Square Park--60% of those who didn't have tattoos wanted to get one but didn't. They are into fashion or think it's cool, or hip...people are hungry for ink and not getting it because of its permanence."

Excerpt from Women's Wear Daily -- "'It will be the end of the billion-dollar brand. By trying to mean something to more people, the luxury brand [actually] means less to [everyone],' he concluded. That thought is predicated on the view that luxury is about having something that no one else has, even though that inherently also means fewer sales. 'Shifting from large megabrands to small specific brands will disrupt every facet of the fashion industry,' Lenihan concluded."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "Attempts to shield students from words, ideas, and people that might cause them emotional discomfort are bad for the students. They are bad for the workplace, which will be mired in unending litigation if student expectations of safety are carried forward. And they are bad for American democracy, which is already paralyzed by worsening partisanship. When the ideas, values, and speech of the other side are seen not just as wrong but as willfully aggressive toward innocent victims, it is hard to imagine the kind of mutual respect, negotiation, and compromise that are needed to make politics a positive-sum game."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "The challenge is to know what to look for when stepping outside your native market, be able to quantify the downside risk, and implement the required strategy in each of the new markets. In a new book, 'Global Vision,' by NYU Stern School of Business scholar and leader Robert Salomon, I finally found some great insights on what to look for, and how to make the necessary changes."

Excerpt from ABC.net -- "What I find odd about the present situation is that having controlled inflation and got away from the world in which we had 15%, 20% inflation, now people are getting paranoid about the fact that inflation is instead of being 2% is maybe only 1. Or horror of all horrors, it's 0. And this is a disaster in some sense. Now I find this utterly incompatible with the original intention of inflation targeting."

Excerpt from China Radio International -- "It doesn't seem the taxes set up will make them prohibitively expensive. One thing that's important to keep in mind is that there tends to be much less sensitivity to price in the luxury goods market. So if you were talking the Louis Vuitton bag, or something like this, I don't think that a 10% or 17% value-added taxes is going to make a difference for the type of consumers who look to consume those luxury goods."

Excerpt from Inc. -- "Founded in 2014 by a team of New York University students, Ephemeral is developing a unique tattoo ink that gives consumers the option to safely, easily and effectively remove unwanted body art. The startup, which expects to have a finalized product within 12 to 18 months, was founded by Joshua Sakhai, 19; Seung Shin, 22; Anthony Lam, 22; Vandan Shah, 27; and Brennal Pierre, 34. It has already won other competitions, including an NYU Stern competition that earned it $75,000."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Edward Altman, New York University professor and creator of the widely used Z-Score method for predicting bankruptcies, has also forecast rising U.S. defaults this year, saying in January that recession could follow even with a rate of less than 10 percent, given the increase in debt since the financial crisis."

NYU Stern has established the Advancement of Women in Business Scholarship Fund, thanks to the generosity of Nomi Ghez, PHD GSAS '76/ADCRT '81.

Excerpt from The Australian Financial Review -- "Another perspective on alternative assets comes from Stephen Brown of Monash University and the Stern School of Business at New York University. Brown highlights a 60/40 stock/bond portfolio has a 10-year annualised return of 6.6 per cent against 5.6 per cent for hedge funds. Despite this, Brown advocates a small allocation towards hedge funds (5 per cent) and says they do reduce financial risk."

Excerpt from Seeking Alpha -- "I 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 some of these gold 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."

Excerpt from Kellogg Insight -- "Waytz’s research, in collaboration with Eileen Y. Chou of the University of Virginia, Joe C. Magee of New York University, and Adam D. Galinsky of Columbia University, examines how being highly placed in a social hierarchy affects loneliness."

Excerpt from RT -- "Well, I would disagree that the sharing economy is reaching a dead end. I think that the process that we're seeing is simply a natural outcome of experimentation at the early stages of a phenomenon. So today's sharing economy are sort of early stage instances of a much broader transition in the economy. We're inventing a new way of organizing economic activity. Any time that happens, different companies will experiment with different ways of sort of fulfilling the dream, and some of them will succeed and grow on to be big and some of them won't."

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "The bottom line: international experience suggests that negative interest rates, at least as low as we are seeing today and (in some places) significantly lower, will become a permanent part of the monetary policy toolkit. If that’s right, we need not worry quite so much whether a 2% inflation target is too low."

On April 4 and 5, NYU Stern hosted the sixth edition of the Blockchain Workshops series, which brought together more than 100 scientists, investors and legal experts to understand the upcoming challenges and opportunities provided by blockchain technologies, and their impact on financial services and entrepreneurship, as well as on the broader social, economic and political order.

Experts from academia, the finance sector, regulatory agencies and legal and accounting professions gathered at NYU Stern on April 4 for a roundtable discussion on "Assessing Materiality: The FASB's Proposed Accounting Standards Update," hosted by the Vincent C. Ross Institute of Accounting Research.

Excerpt from CBC Radio -- "'If we look forward ten years, a healthy double digit percentage of many large economies will be sharing economy activity' he says. He sees a particularly strong role for countries like China, where the emerging middle class '...think about getting a car on demand rather than owning a car, or staying in Airbnb-style accommodation rather than going to a hotel. So the entire model of consumption that they embrace as they become middle class consumers may end up being sharing economy aligned.'"

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'The leak and the e-mail exchanges between Tsipras and Lagarde have strengthened the negotiating position of the IMF toward both Greece and the Europeans,' Economides said. 'The IMF has made it even more clear that it will not participate in the program without a debt reduction.'"
 

Excerpt from Boston.com -- "Arun Sundararajan, a business professor at New York University, said the rulings indicate that taxi regulations across the country are in need of updating. 'I see them as part of a process of remaking the way that we regulate paid, chauffeured transportation,' he said. 'I sort of see things like this as an opportunity for a city to say, "OK, now we have to sit down and rewrite this."'"

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Discrimination is also pervasive in the white-collar world. Researchers found that white state legislators, Democrats and Republicans alike, were less likely to respond to a constituent letter signed with a stereotypically black name. Even at universities, emails sent to professors from stereotypically black names asking for a chance to discuss research possibilities received fewer responses."

Excerpt from Associated Press -- "Scott Galloway, clinical professor of marketing at NYU Stern School of Business, said Apple risked public sentiment turning against the company as people became more informed about the case, and particularly if Apple lost. For now, he said, 'the line isn't going to be any shorter for the iPhone because the FBI in concert with a third party figured out a way to hack into one phone. I haven't heard anybody say "That's it, I'm switching to Samsung."'"

Excerpt from The Real Deal -- "One reason is that EB-5 capital is 'remarkably flexible,' meaning it can be debt or equity, secured or unsecured, and can account for as little as 1 percent of a project’s cost or as much as 100 percent, according to a research paper by New York University professors Jeanne Calderon and Gary Friedland. 'It can contain virtually any features, with few limitations or restrictions imposed by the EB-5 program,' the duo wrote."

Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "... if current conditions in the advanced economies remain entrenched a decade from now, helicopter drops, debt monetization, and taxation of cash may turn out to be the new QE, CE, FG, ZIRP, and NIRP. Desperate times call for desperate measures."

Excerpt from mbaMission -- "Through Stern Consulting Corps, students can partner on consulting projects with New York City–based nonprofits. And for those who also have the entrepreneurial bug, Stern added a Social Venture Competition—in which participants compete for a $50K prize—to its traditional for-profit $200K Entrepreneurs Challenge."