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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- “'Extend and pretend -- both in the leveraged loan market and the high yield bond market -- is bailing out just about anybody,'” Edward Altman, a finance professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, who created the Z-Score measure for bankruptcy risk, told TMA."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "No surprises. The stock market isn't surprised either because it, in fact, has risen. We're at the highest level in years. It has risen in anticipation of no change, continued expansion."

Excerpt from Marketplace -- "Anindya Ghose, who teaches social media and digital marketing at NYU’s Stern School of Business, says there are two pluses to food pictures. 'Part of it is that it’s more information from a source that I’m more likely to trust: another user like me,' he says."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Apple Inc. has a 90 percent chance of being undervalued after a four-month drop in shares of the iPhone and iPad maker, according to Aswath Damodaran, a finance professor at New York University."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Tom Meyvis, an associate professor of marketing at the Stern School of Business at New York University, said he doubted that 'parents would find the ads credible' because 'kids are not so excited about eating steamed vegetables.'"

Excerpt from USA TODAY -- "'We have probably hit bottom and we've probably come off the bottom a little,' says Lawrence White, economist at New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from Entrepreneur.com -- "'Capitalism is creative destruction,' says Sylla. 'Old models get outmoded, and new models come in and take over.'"

Excerpt from CNN -- "How can a company fall from grace so quickly, especially when it still possesses enviable profit margins and perhaps the most valuable franchise in the world? The answer lies in recognizing that a market price is set by demand and supply, which, in turn, are driven not only by underlying value but also by other factors including hope, hype and momentum."

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "Any bank that is too big to fail and to prosecute is a clear and present danger that should be promptly shrunk to the point that it can no longer hold the global economy hostage in order to extort immunity from the criminal laws for the controlling officers who became wealthy by being what Akerlof and Romer aptly described as 'looters.'"

Excerpt from US News -- "'People tend to overestimate how much events and experiences will affect their happiness in the long run,' Meyvis said. 'In the long term, it doesn't matter. You go back to your baseline level of happiness.'"

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "In December, the U.S. and the UK took a significant step in that direction, announcing a common strategy for resolving insolvent cross-border financial giants, known as global systemically important financial intermediaries (G-SIFIs). In spite of this progress and the Dodd-Frank law notwithstanding, the specter of 'too big to fail' still haunts the financial landscape."

Excerpt from the Washington Post -- "I will never know whether my actions in Afghanistan were right or wrong. On good days, I believe they were necessary. But instead, I want to believe that killing, even in war, is wrong."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- “'BRICs have been hyped up too much,' Roubini said in an interview today at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "To stay on top over time, Apple will have to engage actively in the creative destruction of the very revenue model that sustains it. They will gradually have to sacrifice the device lock-in afforded by iTunes."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "With the U.S. government mulling significant cuts to the defense budget, smaller companies that contract with the government for defense projects could suffer, Altman told a group of restructuring professionals at his 12th annual Corporate & Sovereign Credit Market Outlook luncheon."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "The fundamental problem -- look at the unemployment numbers in Spain today, rising even further. They're really shocking numbers."

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "In Europe we need to get through a few elections without a major disruption of the reform programs needed to continue the stabilisation of bond markets."

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."

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."

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."

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."

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."

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."

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."

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.