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Prof. Amir Malin on 3-D movies

Excerpt from ContactMusic.com -- "Amir Malin of Qualia Capital told the New York Post in a difficult economic environment, consumers may pay 3D premiums for compelling entertainment but ignore others.'"
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An op-ed by Prof. Roy Smith on the dilemma of government bailouts

Excerpt from The Independent Review -- "The basic argument for bailing out large banks is that a single failure of such a firm can contaminate the whole financial system, which is a public good that the government must safeguard."  Additional coverage appeared in Heartlander.
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NYU Stern's new Abu Dhabi campus is referenced

Excerpt from BusinessDay -- "New York University’s Stern School recently set up a campus in Abu Dhabi; and so have many universities in the United States and Australia that are tapping into governments eager and serious to raise standards and willing students (not unlike their Nigerian counterparts) focused on getting foreign degrees."
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A speech at NYU Stern, made by Craig Mundie, Microsoft Senior VP is referenced

Excerpt from ITWord -- "Mundie's remarks were made in a speech to The New York University Stern School of Business, and it is one of the earliest trial balloons for the Microsoft concept of shared source, where just a little source code is opened to select customers and not really shared with anyone else."
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Prof. Scott Galloway's Digital IQ ranking of magazine brands in featured

Excerpt from CampaignAsia.com -- "In all, the study measured the online impacts of 87 magazine brands according to the quality and integration of their respective websites, digital marketing, social media and mobile presences." Additional coverage appeared on CampaignAsia.com.
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Profs Richard Sylla and Lawrence White on ratings agencies

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Professor Sylla said that the ratings agencies could be forced to stop making their money off the entities they rate and instead charge investors who use the ratings. ... The ratings agencies lost a bit of ground on their First Amendment protections in the recent financial reform bill, which put the ratings firms on the same legal liability level as accounting firms, Professor White said." Additional coverage appeared on CNBC, Sacramento Bee, Herald T ribune, Gainsville.com and Seattle Times.
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Prof. Paul Romer on social inclusion in South Africa

Excerpt from Times Live -- "The CDE report quotes the Treasury and internationally-renowned growth economist, Professor Paul Romer, who both argue that inequality is not the best measure of social inclusion."
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence spoke at the National Press Club in Canberra on August 17

Excerpt from The Australian -- "In Canberra today Nobel Laureate economist Professor Michael Spence will address the National Press Club on 'The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World.'"  Additional coverage appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald.
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini on Obama's presidency

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "Roubini reminded of the obvious: 'We destroyed our fiscal sustainability before [President Obama] came to power.'"  Additional coverage appeared in International Business Times.
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Prof. Edward Altman on the eurozone's credit ratings

Excerpt from Euromoney -- "In an August interview with Euromoney Ed Altman, Max Heine professor of finance at the Stern Business School at NYU, warns that all triple-A rated eurozone sovereigns could be downgraded before the crisis is over."
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NYU Trustee and Vice Chairman of the Board of Overseers John Vogelstein is highlighted

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Excerpt from The New York Times Dealbook blog -- "Though its roots stretch back to the venerable E.M. Warburg & Company, Warburg Pincus dates to 1966, when Lionel I. Pincus and John Vogelstein created a partnership aimed at investing in a variety of companies."
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NYU Stern faculty authors of Guaranteed to Fail on mortgage finance reform

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "That said, weaning housing finance off the government cannot happen overnight. We liken this to the way one would treat a patient with a drug addiction. One would not double the dose (which is arguably what we have been doing), but neither would one go cold turkey. Existing subsidies would be honored. And to minimize the system-wide shock of closing Fannie and Freddie and removing government support, we envision a decade-long transition from where we are today to where we need to be."  Additional coverage appeared on Realtor.org.
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A paper by Prof. Lawrence White on credit ratings agencies is referenced

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "The result, as Lawrence J. White, an economics professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, put it in a paper last year, was that financial groups 'could satisfy the safety requirements of their regulators by just heeding the ratings, rather than their own evaluations of the risks of the bonds.'"
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An interview with Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence on his book, The Next Convergence

Excerpt from Australian Broadcasting Corporation -- "Countries like Australia and Canada, the United States, if we're on our game, we're gonna, you know, be highly competitive, we'll be playing in an enormous global economy but there's no reason to think that we won't do just fine."  Additional coverage appeared on BNet.com.
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence on the state of the global economic

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Excerpt from Australian Financial Review -- "Nobel Laureate economist Michael Spence says the current global economic woes are a signal that a major power shift is occurring."  Additional coverage appeared in Hattiesburg American, EconoMonitor, Foreign Policy, Trading Room, Superior Telegram and Eurasia Review.
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence on US unemployment

Excerpt from Calgary Herald -- "As Nobel-prize winning economist Michael Spence recently wrote in an article for Foreign Affairs Magazine, the ranks of the employed in the United States grew from 122 million to 149 million between 1990 and 2008, with about 98 per cent of the jobs created being in the so-called 'nontradable' sector of the economy; the goods and services produced and consumed domestically."  Additional coverage appeared on Foreign Policy.
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Prof. Amity Shlaes's view on the US budget is cited

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Excerpt from Reuters blog -- "Perhaps more important for the performance of the market in the short-term, however, is that the Congressional committee charged with coming up with an additional $1.5 trillion in spending cuts is likely to be fractious enough to lead to what we might term the 'Amity Shlaes' problem1 - the uncertainty and the unpleasantness surrounding the nature of future cuts in spending is likely to lead capital to go on strike."
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An interview with Member of the NYU Stern Executive Board and Prof. Richard Bernstein (MBA '87)

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Excerpt from Forbes -- "In terms of the United States, the one place I think people should be very cautious is financials. We have been, and continue to be, quite cautious on financials."
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence on the US and Europe's structural problems

Excerpt from Business Spectator -- "Spence pointed out that in recent decades, all the US jobs growth has been in non-tradeable goods like health, government services and housing construction, which was unsustainable."
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini on gold prices

Excerpt from Mineweb.com -- "Nouriel Roubini, professor of economics at the New York University's Stern School of Business said gold was a bubble when the price was $1100 an ounce."
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini on Rick Perry's accusations against Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke

Excerpt from Think Progress -- “Perry’s Remarks on Bernanke are criminal."  Additional coverage appeared on Politico, Business Insider, two New York Post pieces, AdvisorOne.com, National Review and a TIME blog.
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Prof. Thomas Philippon's research on banks' role in the economy

Excerpt from SmartMoney -- "But research by Thomas Philippon, a finance professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, shows there has been surprisingly strong variation in the relative importance of banks in the economy."
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In an op-ed, Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence looks at America's economic future

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Excerpt from The Daily Beast -- "To restore a stable pattern of inclusive growth—the kind that truly lifts all boats—the first step is to reduce the debt loads in these economies, not suddenly but systematically."
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Prof. Thomas Merten's study of behavioral economics is highlighted

Excerpt from Financial Times (German Edition) -- "If all investors really behave as so-called rational agents, the average returns and the volatility of market prices would be a whole lot lower," says Thomas Mertens.
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In an op-ed, Prof. Nouriel Roubini discusses the future of capitalism

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Excerpt from Project-Syndicate.org -- "The massive volatility and sharp equity-price correction now hitting global financial markets signal that most advanced economies are on the brink of a double-dip recession."  Additional coverage appeared on Truthdig.com, Slate.com, TodayOnline.com, Business Daily Africa and Aljazeera.