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The Conference on Extracting & Understanding the Risk Neutral Probability Density from Options Prices will bring together researchers from NYU Stern and the Federal Reserve Banks of New York and Minneapolis to describe the work they have been doing on extracting the risk neutral density from options prices and analyzing the information it contains.

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "Arun Sundararajan, a professor at NYU Stern who studies the sharing economy, said the decision was a good example of regulation nurturing innovation. 'I like that it shifts a set of responsibilities that used to be the government’s to the platforms themselves,' he said. 'This is the right direction for the digital economy.'”

Excerpt from USA Today -- "Commercial paper outstanding shrunk by 15% a month after the Reserve fund's collapse, to $1.43 billion, according to a paper written by Kacperczyk and Philipp Schnabl, then with the Stern School of Business. Financial commercial paper — the type used by investment banks and finance companies to fund their operations — plunged 30% in the wake of the Reserve collapse, in large part because money funds aggressively reduced their holdings."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota speaks at 1:45 p.m. at a conference at New York University Stern School."

Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "This generation of students is incredibly sophisticated in terms of their self-awareness. We encourage them and give them the flexibility to determine their strengths, values and interests. There is not a pack mentality. Our career development process is a very personalized one."

Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "We are in the process of learning how to manage growing policy interdependence without much policy coordination. The challenge is to identify policy circuit breakers that have relatively high benefit/cost ratios. Time and experience will help – that is, so long as high volatility does not destabilize many economies in the interim."

Excerpt from the Los Angeles Times -- "The Stern School of Business at New York University, Fuld's alma mater, has adapted its required course on professional responsibility in the years since Lehman's collapse. 'The crisis gives us such amazing material on how you can get terrible, terrible outcomes — sometimes not involving terrible people,' said Jonathan Haidt, a specialist in moral psychology who co-teaches the course."

Excerpt from Dhaka Tribune -- “'Meeting at Stern encouraged a frank discussion of the challenges and opportunities in Bangladesh. It underscored the need for greater coordination among the various national and international actors, for greater transparency and for a longer term look at the sustainability of the current sourcing model,' Labowitz said."

Excerpt from The Takeaway -- "[Sundararajan] says the new investment in renting is fueled by the rise of the internet and urbanization, and he sees the focus on sharing as an innovative avenue of consumption with potential to expand the economy."

Stern's Center for Global Economy and Business (CGEB) will host a public talk with Philipp Hildebrand, vice chairman of BlackRock and former chairman of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank.

Excerpt from Forbes -- "Bernanke’s church in this instance is our monetary church, the institution that ordains easier money no matter what direction interest rates take or what history’s record suggests we do."

Excerpt from BBC Capital -- “'Part of the issue is that investors are starting to recognize the inherent risk in the markets — political, cultural, and economic — that makes it very difficult for foreign investors to understand these markets,' said Robert Salomon, associate professor of management and organisations at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'They underestimate the cost and overestimate the benefits associated with investing in foreign countries.'”

Excerpt from Minnesota Public Radio -- "I think his strategy just didn't have enough time to succeed. I don't think as a strategy, in and of itself, it was flawed. One of our most successful retailers is Walmart. They have an EDLP. They've built it over a period of time. You can't build it overnight. It takes time. It takes a change in merchandise, it takes a change in brand building, all of which was leading to J.C. Penney bleeding and therefore really the strategy didn't really have a chance to succeed. Maybe in three years' time, had the company been able to have taken the losses, we would have seen a different company today."

On Monday, September 16, NYU trustee Ken Langone, educator Geoffrey Canada and investor Stanley Druckenmiller discussed "Generational Theft: How Entitlement Spending is Stealing Opportunity from America's Youth." The discussion was moderated by Bloomberg TV's Stephanie Ruhle.

Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "This was such a huge missed opportunity. If you look back at what the Gap did with Old Navy, they came in with 80% of the value of the Gap with 50% of the price. This is sort of 80% of an iPhone at 80% of the price and I just don't think that's that compelling a value proposition when you have all these other competitors who are narrowing the gap of innovation between Apple and the others, but at the same time, Apple just hasn't recognized that and lowered the price."

Excerpt from Fast Company -- "Until recently, the company has been 'using web pages and websites that people visit at a massive scale--a very sizable number of the sites people visit--and each one has some evidence for or against some particular brand,' says Foster J. Provost, a Professor of Information Systems, NEC Faculty Fellow at New York University Stern School of Business, and author of the recent book, Data Science for Business. He pioneered much of the data science behind Dstillery's operation as a member of the founding team. 'They can use both the info from the physical world and the info from the digital world, and they can use this info together to get more of a pure audience,' he says of the newly christened Dstillery."

Excerpt from The New Yorker -- “'There’s a mind-set that consumers are doing this just to save money,' Sundararajan said. 'But I think that what’s really compelling about the sharing economy is the variety and expansion of choices that it offers. Instead of being tied to owning one car, I can drive twenty different ones. So I expect this will expand consumption, rather than shrink it.'”

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "Both NYU Stern in New York and the Schulich school at York University in Toronto run standalone masters degrees in business analytics."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- “'A partnership involves people realizing that it’s their own money and it can be lost in market speculation and fines and a lot of other ways,' said Roy C. Smith, a former partner at Goldman Sachs who now teaches finance at New York University. Of course, there is a price to doing business the old-fashioned way. 'It’s a good structure if you are happy to stay a small niche player,' Mr. Smith said."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "The owner of a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, was at New York University last week to meet with clothing industry executives, labor activists and American and European government officials to talk about the Bangladeshi garment industry, the world’s second-biggest exporter of clothes after China."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Mr. Coase’s work cannot be read as a case for minimal government. On the contrary, his message was more purely pragmatic: Because we can’t negotiate efficient private solutions most of the time, we must ask whether laws and other institutions can help steer us toward solutions we would have chosen if negotiation had been practical."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "'Money market funds lack safety relative to other safe instruments, such as bank deposits or Treasury bills, because they have strong incentives to take on risk when the opportunity arises but they are vulnerable to runs once the risk materializes,' Marcin Kacperczyk and Philipp Schnabl said in a money market stability study for the Stern School of Business at New York University."

Excerpt from The Daily Beast -- "Paul Volcker, who ran the Fed heroically from 1979 to 1987, was a highly effective central banker. And he spent virtually all his career as a government bureaucrat—as an official at the Treasury Department and the New York Fed. 'He was at Chase for relatively short periods earlier in his career,' said William Silber, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business and author of Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence. 'He didn’t spend much time in the private sector. The real experience he got dealing with financial markets was between 1969 and 1974 when he was undersecretary of the Treasury.'”

Excerpt from Marketplace -- “'It may be too soon for people to enjoy this crisis because we’re still experiencing it to some extent,' says Richard Sylla, a professor of financial history at New York University's Stern School of Business. Theoretically, he says, one might enjoy a crisis through books, movies and art, but certainly not while your 401(k) is still trying to recover."

Excerpt from Bankrate.com -- "'The markets were shocked by that because they assumed [the Lehman collapse] couldn't happen,' says Richard Sylla, a professor of economics and financial history at New York University. 'That was really the worst part of the crisis.'"