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Excerpt from WIRED -- "Social influence always seemed to flow from the person who makes the choice, to the people who observe it. But digital visibility reverses the direction and creates a new form of anticipatory influence: What we do is now influenced by the peers who observe us."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Joel Hasbrouck, a professor at New York University who has advised exchanges and trading firms, said that the size of the new company worried him because it could give the company too much influence with regulators, as has happened when companies have grown large in other corners of the financial markets."

Excerpt from NPR -- "The company still has old-fashioned floor traders buying and selling stocks, but not nearly as many as they used to. And NYU's Roy Smith says they probably will disappear once the merger with ICE takes place."

Excerpt from US News -- "Research by Hal Hershfield, assistant professor of marketing at New York University's Stern School of Business, has found that showing people aged photos of themselves makes them more likely to put money away for later."

Excerpt from China Daily -- "'The new leadership is well informed and seems committed,' said Michael Spence, a Nobel laureate in economics and a professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University."

Excerpt from BBC -- "It's very good news. It shows determination by the European partners of Greece for Greece to stay there."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "Edward Altman, a high-yield investing guru, doesn’t see default rate next year much above 3%.”I think balance sheets today are quite strong,” he says. “I’m still a believer in quality junk."

Excerpt from The Australian -- "Giving a keynote speech at the 25th Australian Institute of Banking and Finance conference in Sydney yesterday, Professor Engle said: 'It's far better to try and raise capital standards in a boom.'"

Excerpt from Financial News -- "So, even though the banks will remain in the woods for a while longer, things are getting better. They will get better still if those banks, which have already taken action to turn things around, inspire the rest to do the same. If they do, Carney, and the rest of the bank regulators of the world, can look forward to a happy new year."

Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "The tail risks of a Greek exit from the eurozone or a massive loss of market access in Italy and Spain have been reduced for 2013. But the fundamental crisis of the eurozone has not been resolved, and another year of muddling through could revive these risks in a more virulent form in 2014 and beyond."

Excerpt from the Economist -- "In a 2011 paper Rosa Abrantes-Metz of New York University’s Stern School of Business and Sofia Villas-Boas and George Judge of the University of California, Berkeley, examined LIBOR data over rolling six-month windows, and found that LIBOR was far likelier than another benchmark interest rate to depart from Benford patterns."

Excerpt from the Wall Street Journal -- "Finally, a new exposition of the most important economic idea you've never heard of: what its inventor, William Baumol, calls 'The Cost Disease.'"

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "The european recession is continuing, is spreading to parts of the core like France. Even Germany is slowing down because its two major markets, one is the eurozone is contracting and Asia and China are slowing down."

Excerpt from the Wall Street Journal -- "'Smart firms won't go too far in invading consumer privacy because they realize—especially companies like Google and Facebook —that without the information consumers are giving them, they have no business at all,' says Arun Sundararajan, of New York University's Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from The Globe and Mail -- "William Silber’s biography of Paul Volcker is rightly sympathetic to the man whose determination and integrity conquered U.S. inflation. When needed, he overcame opposition from politicians and academic economists. Yet once his work was done, policy slid back and his abilities were wasted."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "'The emerging markets have emerged, even as the developed markets have submerged,' Roubini told me. 'Politics have become more important for many advanced countries, too.'"

Excerpt from Forbes India -- "Pioneering teachers: Such as Aswath Damodaran of New York University’s Stern School of Business, who has been doing webcasts of his immensely popular courses on valuation and corporate finance for several years."

Excerpt from CNC World -- "What is important in order to predict what's going to happen in the near future is what is going to be the willingness of the party or coalitional party that emerges a winner from the next election to actually implement those reforms."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- “'Libor is just the beginning,' said Rosa Abrantes-Metz, an economist with New York-based consulting firm Global Economics Group Inc., an associate professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business and co-author of 'Libor Manipulation?' a paper published in August 2008."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Fixing Europe will not be easy or fast, according to the panel’s members. Mr. Clementi says that he isn’t expecting the demise of a European nation or a 'catastrophe' anytime soon, but he thinks that an Italy or a France or a Spain will suffer from what he calls a depression."

Excerpt from the Australian Financial Review -- "'Why should you invest in a bank when the return on equity will be so low?' Professor Saunders said in a speech to a Financial Services Institute of Australia conference. 'Why not just invest in a public utility like a gas company?'"

Excerpt from Forbes -- "CourseHorse, winner of the 2011 New Venture Competition, recently raised $500,000 in a seed funding round and launched a co-branded site with Time Out New York."

Excerpt from the New York Daily News -- "'Letting the talent be part of the process and letting her connect with the audience achieves that and moves beyond her simply being a puppet,' added Craig, director of the Entertainment, Media and Technology Program at NYU's Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "My co-host in the discussion about financial innovation was Prasad Chintamaneni, the head of global markets, banking and financial services at Cognizant. We were joined by Raj Dhinsa, a managing principal at Verizon's financial services practice, Marti Subrahmanyam, the Charles E. Merrill professor of finance at Stern School of Business at New York University and Steven Liles, a senior vice president of enterprise automation and innovation at BB&T Corp. in Winston-Salem, N.C."

Excerpt from Fox Business -- "I think that we should be paying more attention to Europe. I think that the attention we're paying to the fiscal cliff is not actually productive. In fact, it's leading to polarization of positions that have to be negotiated in private and the less I hear from Washington, the better I like the fiscal cliff."