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Prof. Arun Sundararajan on the importance of a Unique Identification (UID) system for India

Excerpt from Outlook India -- "As more and more people get to use it, more and more applications will start getting attached to it. The blueprints already demonstrate how it can be used to access the banking system for transactions or how it can be used to open a bank account or get a mobile phone connection."
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Prof. Arun Sundararajan on the sharing economy

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Excerpt from Forbes -- “'We’re going to have to invent new economics to capture the impact of the sharing economy,' says Arun Sundararajan, a professor at the Stern School of Business at NYU who studies this phenomenon."
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Prof. Viral Acharya on Atari's bankruptcy

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Excerpt from The Guardian -- "Viral Acharya, a professor at NYU's Stern School of Business, believes that it is helpful for these companies to go out of business because it requires their employees to work on new efforts for innovation rather than being attached to old, dying technologies."
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Prof. Stephen Brown's research on the Dow Theory is featured

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Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "But there is at least one academic study that found that the Dow Theory has genuine merit. It was conducted in the mid 1990s by three finance professors: Stephen J. Brown of New York University, William Goetzmann of Yale University, and Alok Kumar of the University of Miami."
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Profs Edwin Elton and Martin Gruber's research on 401(k) plan administrators is highlighted

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Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "The study, done by Edwin Elton, Martin Gruber and Christopher Blake, showed that 401(k) plan administrators choose mutual funds that lag comparable indexes. When changing plan offerings, administrators routinely chase returns and do not improve performance."
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Prof. Lawrence White on the SEC's settlement with Egan-Jones Ratings Co.

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Excerpt from the Wall Street Journal -- "The settlement serves 'as a warning to others, to set a precedent that says, "Look, this is behavior we don't think is appropriate and we're going to take appropriate action,'" said Lawrence J. White, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business."
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence on the future of economic growth

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Excerpt from Al Jazeera -- "The World Bank estimates that over the next five to 10 years, China will export something like 85-100 million jobs to earlier-stage developing countries, and that they will be replaced by higher-value-added activities. This is the opportunity of the century for the earlier-stage developing countries, because for a long time they’ve been saying, rightly or wrongly, that they can’t compete with China. Well, China is moving on just like Korea did before, and now is their chance."
Press Releases

Financial Deprivation Prompts Consumers to Seek Scarce Goods

Assistant Professor of Marketing Adam Alter and PhD student Eesha Sharma at NYU Stern reveal why people who feel financially constrained might be lured to purchase scarce or rare products—those that aren’t widely available to other people. The authors suggest that consumers who feel financially disadvantaged counteract feelings of financial deprivation by acquiring these scarce products, precisely because they seem unavailable to others.
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Prof. Sinan Aral on the reinvention of Myspace

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Excerpt from Today.com (NBCNews.com) -- "Myspace liberally borrows features from other social networks, but experts caution that could be a double-edged sword. Users obviously aren’t looking for redundancy, but a remix has the chance to deliver a better experience, said Sinan Aral, an assistant professor and Microsoft faculty fellow at the New York University Stern School of Business."
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Prof. David Yermack's research on the impact of the Michelle Obama's wardrobe is featured

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Excerpt from Reuters -- "A 2010 study from New York University's Stern School of Business found that a single appearance by the first lady can generate $14 million in value for a company."
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In an op-ed, Prof. Nouriel Roubini outlines the risks to the global economy in 2013

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Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "The global economy this year will exhibit some similarities with the conditions that prevailed in 2012. No surprise there: we face another year in which global growth will average about 3%, but with a multi-speed recovery – a sub-par, below-trend annual rate of 1% in the advanced economies, and close-to-trend rates of 5% in emerging markets. But there will be some important differences as well."
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Prof. Marti Subrahmanyam on the financial services industry in India

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Excerpt from the Economic Times -- "There is a lot more entrepreneurship in India than before; people are willing to overcome handicaps and that's why India has a chance to maintain such growth."
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Dean Geeta Menon on NYU Stern's presence in India

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Excerpt from the Business Standard -- "Students from HR College and St Xavier’s College, Mumbai, come to our institute for a short period in May. India is very important to us and we plan to gradually increase our presence here. India is one of the top four leading providers of students to NYU Stern."
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In an op-ed, Prof. Viral Acharya explains why regulators should focus on financial instruments

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Excerpt from LiveMint -- "Despite the largest financial crisis since the 1930s, progress towards international coordination of financial regulation remains dismally slow. To speed the development of a harmonized regulatory framework, policymakers need to focus on international rules for financial instruments, rather than just financial institutions."
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Prof. Rosa Abrantes-Metz on the LIBOR scandal

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Excerpt from BBC Radio -- "LIBOR was constant. It essentially took the same value day in and day out for a period of about a year and that by itself is an unexpected pattern because one would expect that borrowing costs would vary, even if slightly, over time, and therefore one would expect the LIBOR, even if just a bit, to move from one day to the following."
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Profs. Edwin Elton and Martin Gruber's research on mutual fund managers is featured

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "'Participants tend to allocate inefficiently,' he said. 'If you give them bad choices, then there is a tendency for them to put more money into those bad choices.'"
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Prof. Luke Williams on Warby Parker's eyeglasses business model

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Excerpt from Marketplace -- "Luke Williams of the Stern School of Business at NYU says Warby Parker’s model is daring, as it tries to upend an industry that many didn’t think was broken."
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In an op-ed, Prof. Michael Spence outlines the connection between technology and job growth

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Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "New technologies of various kinds, together with globalization, are powerfully affecting the range of employment options for individuals in advanced and developing countries alike – and at various levels of education."
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini on the debt ceiling

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Excerpt from CNBC -- "'We have low growth, we have low inflation below target, we have zero federal funds…in 2015, we're doing QE3 (a third round of quantitative easing), maybe QE4,' he said."
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Prof. Scott Galloway on Facebook's Graph Search announcement

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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "I think everyone's taking a cue from Steve Jobs and Apple and that is you build suspense, you make an event out of something even perhaps when there isn't an event. Perception is more important than reality."
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In an op-ed, Profs. Ralph Gomory and Richard Sylla outline goals for American corporations

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Excerpt from the Huffington Post -- "These goals are in sharp contrast to the present situation, in which many large corporations have just one goal: maximizing the return to the shareholders. In fact, this goal has now become so dominant that it is often thought to be a legal requirement. It definitely is not."
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Prof. Hal Hershfield on Bank of America's retirement tools

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Excerpt from US News -- "'If they see it via Facebook, I'm not sure someone is going to change their 401(k) contributions,' says Hal Hershfield, an assistant professor in the marketing department at New York University's Stern School of Business, and coauthor of the original marketing research. 'If, on the other hand, they are actually in the mindset of trying to get more information about retirement, I think this could have a measurable impact on the types of decisions that they make.'"
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In an op-ed, Prof. Nouriel Roubini shares his predictions for the euro zone in 2013

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Excerpt from Reuters -- "The euro zone periphery recession will continue in 2013: Fiscal austerity is ongoing; the euro is still too strong; periphery banks have capital shortages and liquidity concerns, and thus are achieving required capital ratios by contracting credit and selling assets; and consumer and business confidence is still depressed given falling output and employment."