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Excerpt from Nikkei Asian Review -- "In an interview with the Nikkei Asian Review in Hong Kong on May 5, Brenner said the perception that the VIX has "predictive power" is something promoted by '[news]letter writers and analysts, people who write to the clients." But for him, "I just use the word nonsense. It doesn't have predictive power.' Brenner was in Hong Kong to commemorate the 10th anniversary of a joint master's program on global finance involving NYU and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology which he teaches."

Excerpt from The Atlantic -- "Arun Sundararajan, a professor at New York University and the author of The Sharing Economy, notes that these companies might have an edge over automakers when it comes to winning over consumers’ trust. 'Wouldn’t you be more inclined to rely on the software and cybersecurity ingenuity of Google, Uber, Didi, Lyft, Amazon, Apple or Tesla (the exception), rather than trusting the digital capabilities of Ford, Toyota, Daimler or BMW?' he asked rhetorically in a comment shared with reporters."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "[President Trump] is thus the all-time record-holder of the Dunning-Kruger effect, the phenomenon in which the incompetent person is too incompetent to understand his own incompetence."

Excerpt from Crain's New York -- "'Previously these systems had to be programmed, and they did one task and they did what they were programmed to do,' Dhar explained. 'Now you've got machines that are capable of learning on their own. They can learn how to learn, and therefore they can displace humans in pretty large numbers.'"

Excerpt from The New Yorker -- "'Someone who’s hosting on Airbnb might say, "Well, this is my space. I only want a certain kind of guest in my spare bedroom,"' Arun Sundararajan, an N.Y.U. business professor, says. Is that unreasonably discriminatory? In a new book, 'The Sharing Economy,' he proposes a halfway measure like Airbnb’s: self-regulation in collaboration with government."

Excerpt from Lexology -- "In the May 10, 2017 dialogue held by the SEC’s Division of Economic and Risk Analysis and New York University’s Stern School of Business, academics and industry representatives provided recommended measures for rejuvenating the U.S.’s IPO market."

Excerpt from Bloomberg View -- "Named after psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger, the effect describes the way people who are the least competent at a task often rate their skills as exceptionally high because they are too ignorant to know what it would mean to have the skill."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Data posted by Aswath Damodaran, a New York University finance professor, for example, shows that since 1928, stocks returned about 9.5 percent, annualized, compared with only 4.9 percent for 10-year Treasury bonds and 3.5 percent for three-month Treasury bills. In that horse race, stocks won by a mile. 'Many studies have shown that stocks outperform bonds over all, and I don’t question that data at all,' he said in an interview."

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "Using data from Aswath Damodaran, which covers the full set of listed Japanese companies excluding financials, the EV/EBITDA ratio is about 7.4, compared to more than 12 for the US. (For Western Europe, the figure is about 9.4.)"

Excerpt from The Economist -- "He helped move economics beyond the narrow ideal of perfect competition by introducing the idea of contestable markets, in which competitive pressure comes from the worry that rivals will swoop in to vie for a market if incumbents are anything other than ruthlessly efficient. Perfectly contestable markets should be just as efficient as perfectly competitive ones, even if only a handful of firms dominate a business. His framework gave economists a way to model what they previously could not: why some industries have lots of firms and others have just a few. Firms should enter the market until all are operating at the most efficient scale (so they cannot cut costs by selling more or fewer units). He was not preaching the Panglossian infallibility of markets. Rather, he helped economists understand why some industries might be more concentrated than others—and when oligopoly is a consequence of corporate chicanery rather than market efficiencies."

Excerpt from The Economist -- "Investors, whose priority is usually citizenship rather than a financial reward, have shown themselves willing to accept returns of less than 1%. After intermediaries have taken their cut, the cost of capital to developers is typically 4-6%, about two thirds lower than conventional sources of finance for the industry, according to Gary Friedland, a real-estate expert at New York University. Kushner Companies will save $30m-40m by financing 15% of its new property with EB-5 visas, he estimates."

Excerpt from Luxury Daily -- "The program is geared toward students with an interest in managerial roles in luxury sectors such as apparel and accessories, beauty, jewelry, automotive, fine wines and spirits, real estate, wearable technology and other verticals. NYU Stern has developed a Stern Fashion Lab, a new central hub for luxury-related projects and networking. Stern Fashion Lab’s advisory board includes senior executives from Fashion Culture Design Unconference, Resonance Companies, Ferrara Manufacturing Company, FirstMark Capital, Gilt Groupe and Rebecca Minkoff."
 

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "'Regulation is part of the issue, but not the issue,' Steven Bochner, partner at Wilson, Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati said at conference on the topic sponsored by the Securities and Exchange Commission and New York University Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Professor Baumol, who taught for decades at both Princeton University and New York University, identified what has come to be known as Baumol’s cost disease. This so-called affliction is actually a critically important economic insight that explains why the cost of services, like haircuts and college educations, rises faster than the cost of goods, like T-shirts."
 

Continuing an annual tradition, NYU Stern faculty and guests gathered to celebrate the School’s community of scholars and to recognize excellence in research and scholarship, excellence in teaching, excellence in mentorship, excellence in influence and excellence in innovation.

Excerpt from Luxury Daily -- "'It allows McLaren to gain brand equity through a new channel of communication, namely gaming, an area still out of limits for most luxury brands,' [Serdari] said. 'McLaren is pioneering a bridge between the real and virtual worlds in a way that no other luxury brand has attempted before.'"

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) brought 44 new enforcement actions against public companies or their subsidiaries (public company–related defendants) in the first half of fiscal year 2017, according to a report released today by the NYU Pollack Center for Law & Business and Cornerstone Research. Issuer Reporting and Disclosure remained the most frequent type of allegation against these defendants.

On May 9, the NYU Stern Ross Institute and Salomon Center will co-host a conference entitled, “The Changing Role of Stock Markets in Capital Formation”. 

On May 9, the NYU Stern Center for Real Estate Finance Research, Salomon Center, and S&P Global will host a conference entitled “Risk Insight Live: Risky Management For Commercial Real Estate Financial Markets Agenda.”

Excerpt from The Daily Beast -- "[Haidt's] latest project, The Viewpoint Diversity Experience, 'takes students on a six-step journey, at the end of which they will be better able to live alongside—and learn from—fellow students who do not share their politics.'"

New York University Stern School of Business is launching a new category of specialized MBA, optimized for MBA seekers who are firmly committed to business careers either in technology or in fashion and luxury.    

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "I chose Stern because I felt it was the best place for me to take a multi-disciplinary approach to my intended specializations of real estate, finance, and social innovation & impact. New York City had already become a second home for me, and the opportunity to be in school in downtown Manhattan and the access that provides — as well as the diverse, interesting people it attracts — was a really exciting prospect."
 

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "For a school that has recently introduced initiatives ranging from a center focused on human rights and business to a specific financial technology (fintech) track for full-time MBAs, an emphasis on constant programmatic innovation is something Stern has embraced, Henry says. 'This is a really exciting time.'"

Excerpt from Barron's -- "In a recent conversation with Barron’s, Lev pointed to one such clue for Amazon: Though it holds fewer patents than Alphabet, its patents are cited more often in filings by others, suggesting they’re more valuable. ... Amazon has changed the relationship between companies and investors by replacing profit with growth and vision, according to a colleague of Lev’s, Scott Galloway, an NYU marketing professor and founder of digital-research platform L2. 'Loss is the new black,' he told attendees at a conference last month, citing the willingness of upstarts like Uber to lose steep and growing sums. 'You can argue this might not end well…but the reality is retail investors love this model.'"

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "For the moment, the stock market remains entranced with what Apple is doing financially, and for understandable reasons. Apple may no longer be a great growth company but it is still extraordinary, said Aswath Damodaran, a New York University finance professor, who has analyzed Apple’s earnings closely since 2010. Come what may, he said, Apple churns out staggering quantities of money with metronomic regularity. 'Apple is the greatest corporate cash machine in history,' he said in an interview. 'We should appreciate that amazing achievement. The problem is, it’s not growing much. It’s a slow-growth cash-generating machine.'"