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Prof. Nouriel Roubini will speak at the Discovery Invest Leadership Summit

Excerpt from BusinessLive -- "Later this month he'll be taking the stage at the Discovery Invest Leadership Summit alongside other luminaries like Al Gore, Maria Ramos and Nouriel Roubini - the economist who predicted the collapse of the US housing market and the global recession of 2008-09."
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini on the probability of a double-dip recession

Excerpt from The Independent -- "The New York University economist, Nouriel Roubini, warned at a conference in Lake Como, Italy, yesterday that 'there is a significant probability of a double-dip recession.'"  Additional coverage appeared on Market Oracle, Ritholz.com, FundMyMutualFund.com, Seeking Alpha, Dealbreaker.com, Business Insider, OutsidetheBeltway.com and The Economist blog.
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In an op-ed, Prof. Amity Shlaes discusses Calvin Coolidge's response to natural disasters

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Coolidge's limited response—shaped by his bone-deep federalism and localism—would be almost unrecognizable to politicians and citizens of the 21st century."
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini on the state of the global economy

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Excerpt from CNBC -- "The world’s developed economies are trapped at the 'stall speed' of low growth and need to have greater fiscal stimulus and less austerity to kick-start growh, leading economist Nouriel Roubini told CNBC Friday."  Additional coverage appeared on a CNBC, CNBC blog, The Huffington Post, The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Sydney Morning Herald, Seeking Alpha, two The Guardian pieces, FXStreet, Bloomberg and The Telegraph.
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Prof. Baruch Lev on off-balance-sheet intangibles

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Excerpt from Reuters -- "'They have off-balance-sheet financings and off-balance-sheet assets and they're very happy to have off-balance-sheet intangibles,' Lev said."  Additional coverage appeared on MSN Money and The Huffington Post.
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini on the euro zone

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Excerpt from CNBC -- "Roubini warned that 'if you had a breakup of the monetary union with some of the member states exiting, the consequences will be global and systemic.'"  Additional coverage appeared in two CNBC pieces, BBC, five Bloomberg pieces, San Francisco Chronicle, four Bloomberg Businessweek pieces, Forbes, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal blog, AFP, Postmedia News, two NASDAQ pieces, The Telegraph, SafeHaven.com, two Business Insider pieces, two Guardian pieces, FXStreet.com, Europolitics.info, Newsmax.com, Eurobserver.com, The Peninsula Qatar, Seeking Alpha, Examiner.com, Today's Zaman and Creditwritedowns.com.
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini predicts recession for the advanced economies

Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "Nouriel Roubini, chairman of Roubini Global Economics LLC and a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, talks about the risk of advanced economies sliding into recession and the response of policy makers."  Additional coverage appeared on GuruFocus.
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Prof. Amity Shlaes discusses right-to-work laws in an op-ed

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "This chart bears out that assertion: right-to-work states have for many years performed better on this measure than non-right-to-work states."
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini on quantitative easing

Excerpt from Reuters HedgeWorld -- "'You might have to directly go and buy assets of the private sector that have a high spread as a way of reducing those spreads and, therefore, inducing reduction in the borrowing cost,' Roubini says."  Additional coverage appeared on WealthWire.com, NASDAQ, Seeking Alpha and DepositAccounts.com.
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence on the chance of a global recession

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "The world economy has a 50 percent chance of slipping into recession, Michael Spence, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business who won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2001, said in an Aug. 25 interview on Bloomberg Television."  Additional coverage appeared in Treasury & Risk.
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence will oversee research at the Fung Global Institute

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Fung last month founded the Fung Global Institute, a think tank with Nobel laureate Michael Spence overseeing its research agenda."
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Prof. Viral Acharya on the housing market

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Excerpt from MSNBC -- "I would say we have to basically hammer home the message that we can't support the housing market without actually sometimes cleansing the housing book, We have to fix bankruptcies."
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence on job growth

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "As economist Michael Spence has argued, nearly all of the job growth over the past 20 years has been in sectors where American workers don’t have to compete with workers overseas."  Additional coverage appeared on a CNN blog, The Economist, China Daily, Slate.com and Foreign Policy.
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini was referenced in a question to First Minister Alex Salmond

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Excerpt from BBC -- "Mr Gray quotes American economist Professor Nouriel Roubini saying his approach was fiscal integration and not economic nationalism."
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An interview with Prof. Steven Godeke on impact investing

Excerpt from Mission Markets -- "Impact investing is a strategy where investments are made with the intention of creating environmental and social impacts in addition to some level of financial return."
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Prof. Evan Polman on people who identify themselves as maximizers

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Excerpt from Psychology Today -- "'Most people come to terms with their decisions, but a maximizer may continue looking at apartments even after signing a lease,' says Evan Polman, a visiting assistant professor at New York University."
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Prof. Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh's research on measuring systemic risk is referenced

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Excerpt from The New York Times Economix blog -- "... in a new working paper, 'Too-Systemic-to-Fail: What Option Markets Imply About Sector-Wide Government Guarantees,' Bryan T. Kelly, Hanno Lustig and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh compare the price of put options for the financial sector stock index relative to put options on individual banks' stocks."  Additional coverage appeared in Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
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Prof. Martin Gruber on the differing definitions of growth and value across index providers

Excerpt from Financial Planning -- "'If you went to six different restaurants and ordered coq au vin, you'd get six slightly different variations of the recipe,' Gruber says. He believes it's the same with indexes."
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In an interview, Prof. Nouriel Roubini shares his expectations for the world economy

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Excerpt from Moneyweb -- "In my view, this double dip or recession will occur regardless of whether the Central Bank of the United States, etcetera tries to do more quantitative easing."  Additional coverage appeared on Moneyweb and The Citizen.
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini says we are entering a recession

Excerpt from Sydney Morning Herald -- “The market is going to fizzle out when the real economy is going to go and tank. We’re entering a recession based on my numbers.”  Additional coverage appeared in New Zealand Herald, Business Insider and Vancouver Sun.
School News

Dean Peter Henry on the trends emerging in business education

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Excerpt from Delta Sky Magazine -- "At NYU Stern, our mission is to develop people and ideas that transform the challenges of the 21st century into opportunities to create value for business and society."
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NYU Stern is cited for utilizing Socialtext software

Excerpt from SunHerald.com -- "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."  Additional coverage appeared on Computer Weekly News.
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Rohit Deo named Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for NYU Stern Undergraduate College

Rohit Deo, Professor of Statistics and Operations Research and Robert Miller Faculty Fellow, has been named Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for the NYU Stern Undergraduate College, effective September 1, 2011.
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A speech by Timothy Geithner, hosted by NYU Stern in August 2010, is referenced

Excerpt from American Enterprise Institute -- "Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, in a speech at New York University's Stern School of Business in August 2010, declared that '[t]he largest and most interconnected firms cause more damage when they fail.'"
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Prof. Jeff Shen on the problem of facility failure

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Excerpt from Computer Weekly News -- "We study a reliable facility location problem wherein some facilities are subject to failure from time to time."