Faculty News

An op-ed by Prof. Amity Shlaes on Paul Krugman's claim of a worldwide depression

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "So it’s official. The New York Times, or at least columnist Paul Krugman, has declared us to be in a worldwide depression. And just in time for Christmas." Additional coverage appeared in San Francisco Chronicle, The Jakarta Globe, DelawareOnline.com and Press Democrat.
School News

Profs Thomas Cooley, Richard Sylla & Lawrence White discuss the crisis facing the euro zone

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Excerpt from Xinhua -- "The economists emphasize that the European Central Bank needs to play a more aggressive role in the capitalization of EU banks."
School News

NYU Stern is cited as a highly competitive MBA program

Excerpt from PR.com -- "For someone interested in highly competitive, quantitative-focused MBA and MPA programs such as UT Austin McCombs, Wharton, Chicago Booth, NYU Stern, Stanford, Columbia, MIT Sloan, and Michigan Ross, comprehensive GMAT preparation courses may not provide the requisite focus."
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Assistant Dean Pamela Mittman and MBA students Holly Bolgar and Benjamin Loveland are interviewed

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Excerpt from Reuters -- "We have seen a growing interest on campus -- an interest on the company side and on the student side in the luxury & retail sector, media & entertainment, social enterprise to some extent as well as entrepreneurial tech start-ups."
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An op-ed by NYU Trustee & Member of the Board of Overseers John Paulson (BS '78)

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Excerpt from Financial Times -- "The European banking sector also remains under pressure in large part owing to its exposure to European sovereign credit. A firewall is needed now to stabilise the markets, bring yields down, allow for sovereign refinancings, reduce stress in the banking sector and provide protection against likely future credit events."
Faculty News

Prof. Viral Acharya on EU ring-fencing requirements

Excerpt from GFS News -- "Viral Acharya, an economics professor at New York University, says ring-fencing requirements are not the priority tool for preventing another financial crisis and should be looked at as part of a group of rules."
Faculty News

Prof. Eric Greenleaf predicts severe overcrowding in downtown Manhattan schools

Excerpt from Downtown Express -- "'We need to absolutely make sure that the Peck incubator will fit in Tweed for all three years,' echoed Eric Greenleaf, a business professor at New York University whose student enrollment projections indicate severe overcrowding in Downtown schools in the years to come."
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A letter-to-the-editor by Prof. David Backus on Nobel Laureate Prof. Thomas Sargent

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Excerpt from Financial Times -- "It is a shame that Prof Kay’s macroeconomic education stopped in the 1970s. He might find more recent work to his liking, including Prof Sargent’s work (with Lars Hansen) on behaviour when you are not sure how the world works."
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An op-ed by Prof. Evan Shapiro on the future of television

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "In fact, American TV is stronger now than ever, with no signs of slowing down. Rather than destroying television, these 'disruptive' technologies have created something new called 'TV,' which is more potent, more vital and more important than at any point since the first black and white broadcasts." Additional coverage appeared in Popbytes.com.
Business and Policy Leader Events

Google’s Eric Schmidt Discusses Today’s Technology Race with CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo

More than 400 students, faculty and administrators from across NYU gathered to hear Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, Inc., interviewed by NYU Trustee and alumna Maria Bartiromo (WSC ’89), anchor at CNBC, in NYU Stern’s Paulson Auditorium.
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An interview with Prof. Nicholas Economides on the euro falling

Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "It's inspired by Germany, it's a way to go forward with much more discipline. I'm afraid though that the way it was set up, it was almost blackmail fashion. You have to accept it, or if you don't accept it the financial markets are going to eat you alive."
School News

Vice Chair of NYU Trustees & Vice Chair of the Board of Overseers Kenneth Langone on Home Depot

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Excerpt from CNBC -- "Discussing why Home Depot is still in a good position despite the drop in contractor business, with Kenneth Langone, Invemed Associates/Home Depot co-founder." Additional coverage appeared in Capital.gr.
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MBA students in the Stern Consulting Corps are highlighted

Excerpt from NBC New York's ThreadNY blog -- "We also have a program with NYU Stern students, who are getting their MBAs, who work with designers on their business plans. We are now in our second CFDA Incubator class. It’s really a fully-rounded opportunity for designers."
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Vice Chair of NYU Trustees & Chair of the Board of Overseers William R. Berkley is profiled

Excerpt from Risk and Insurance -- "William R. Berkley has been in the insurance business ever since he launched his company with $2,500 out of Harvard's business school in 1967. That means he's been playing the property/casualty coverage game for nearly 45 years."
Faculty News

Nobel Laureate Prof. Thomas Sargent on the euro zone's sovereign nations

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "To use an American analogy recently promoted by Nobel laureate and New York University economist Thomas Sargent, the 17 have been trying to fix their debt and banking problems under the equivalent of the Articles of Confederation, not the Constitution."
Faculty News

Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence is cited for speaking at last year's Delhi Economic Conclave

Excerpt from Newstrack India -- "Last year we did a small conference around this time, Michael Spence was the international speaker."
Research Center Events

Salomon Center and the Center for Global Economy and Business Discuss the Future of the Euro

On December 12, NYU Stern's Salomon Center and Center on Global Economy and Business hosted an event to discuss the state of the Eurozone and the Euro.
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence's book, "The Next Convergence," is referenced

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Excerpt from Business Insider -- "Keene also shared his seasonal reads with us. For the winter he's all over Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow, and his book for the fall was Michael Spence's, The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World."
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Prof. Nicholas Economides says US banks are vulnerable to the European crisis

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "American banks' vulnerability to the crisis in Europe is 'substantial across the board,' said Nicholas Economides, economics professor at New York University's Stern School of Business."
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Prof. Amity Shlaes's book, "The Forgotten Man," is cited

Excerpt from The New American -- "'From 1929 to 1940, from Hoover to Roosevelt, government intervention helped make the Depression Great,' writes Amity Shlaes in 'The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression.'" Additional coverage appeared in Belleville News Democrat and American Spectator blog.
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Prof. Thomas Sargent is highlighted for receiving the 2011 Nobel Prize in Economics

Excerpt from Princeton University -- "Princeton University professor Christopher Sims accepted his Nobel Prize in economics Dec. 10 during a ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden. The prize was awarded to Sims along with Thomas Sargent, a New York University economist and visiting professor this semester at Princeton, for developing tools to analyze the economic causes and effects of monetary policy."
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Thomas Sargent is cited as a "rational expectations" leader

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Excerpt from Financial Times -- " ... 'rational expectations' practitioners, of whom Thomas Sargent is an acknowledged leader, might claim to derive inspiration from von Hayek’s earlier work on the role of markets and the use of knowledge in society (American Economic Review, 1945)."
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Executive Board Member Richard Bernstein on investing in small-cap stocks

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Excerpt from CBS News -- "Smaller U.S. companies are starved for capital much the way that emerging markets, energy and commodities were 10 years ago." Additional coverage appeared in Business Insider.
School News

An event with Prof. Nouriel Roubini and author Roberto Saviano at NYU Stern is featured

Excerpt from i-italy.org -- "After Saviano's speech, professor Roubini started to talk and thanked his interlocutor for being in New York, risking his life everyday for justice and social equality, and by commenting his words he added that there is another important discipline that should be studied, a better management of criminal money (Italian to English translation)." Additional coverage appeared in Badische Zeitung.
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An op-ed by Research Scholar Robert Frank on improving the US government

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Excerpt from New York Times -- "If government is inevitable, why not try to create the most effective one possible? Success requires focus and hard work, which in turn require dedicated and competent public servants. But experience shows that it’s possible."