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Excerpt from El Paso Times -- "The financial landscape can change quickly, and that's why regulators need to be 'aware of when risks are growing and need timely evidence. And I'm not sure a once-a-year stress test (instituted in 2009) is enough to see what is going on, and make good decisions,' [Engle] said. A more frequent monitoring system is needed, and that's what Engle said he and his colleagues have developed at NYU."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "'The fix is easy to manipulate and it is not a good benchmark,' said Rosa Abrantes-Metz, adjunct professor at New York University Stern School of Business and author of a soon-to-be-published research paper on the fix. 'The news shows that illegal behaviour did occur and there will be concerns about what else was happening.'"

Excerpt from Forbes -- "One theoretical economical model that comes to mind that supports Kelly’s belief is Michael Spence’s signalling model of education. In this model, a person with high ability, ability that cannot be directly observed by prospective employers, looks for some way to signal that ability to differentiate himself from lower ability competitors."

Excerpt from TopMBA -- "Drawing on his own experiences, Banga spoke of the importance he attaches to diversity for business and leadership. Plus, in a nod to NYU Stern’s torch logo, he ended his commencement address by declaring, 'You’ve been handed a torch to a future of greater diversity and better business that can truly light the way to a better, more equal world.'"

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Unusual trading patterns around the afternoon fixing in London are a sign of collusive behavior and should be investigated, Rosa Abrantes-Metz, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, wrote in a draft research paper, which was reported by Bloomberg News in February."

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "A recent study from New York University estimates that CARD Act fee reductions have saved consumers $12.6 billion a year since being enacted. Researchers examined 150 million credit card accounts and found that limits on fees reduced overall borrowing costs to consumers by an annualized 1.7 percent of average daily balances."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "[Our central bank system] is quite distorted. I don't think Europe can recover unless there is a significant weakening of the Euro, so, very reluctantly, the ECB is about to move into that territory."

Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "The world we are entering is one in which the most powerful global flows will be ideas and digital capital, not goods, services, and traditional capital. Adapting to this will require shifts in mindsets, policies, investments (especially in human capital), and quite possibly models of employment and distribution. No one knows fully how all of this will play out. But attempting to understand where the technological forces and trends are leading us is a good place to start."

The Leonard N. Stern School of Business Graduate Convocation Ceremony took place on Thursday, May 22, 2014 at Radio City Music Hall.

Excerpt from Barron's -- "The West needs to overcome the political dysfunction and short-termism that frustrates durable economic growth, delays financial soundness and dampens job creation. For their part, emerging powers need to accept that global instability would inflict heavy damage on their still evolving economies—and that assuming greater international responsibility is ultimately in their interests. And they all need to work toward these goals before a massive global crisis shocks them into action and dictates the terms of the response."

Excerpt from Barron's -- "The West needs to overcome the political dysfunction and short-termism that frustrates durable economic growth, delays financial soundness and dampens job creation. For their part, emerging powers need to accept that global instability would inflict heavy damage on their still evolving economies—and that assuming greater international responsibility is ultimately in their interests. And they all need to work toward these goals before a massive global crisis shocks them into action and dictates the terms of the response."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "In a G-Zero world, with no single dominant voice and a lack of global coordination, India now stands out as a rare oasis of leadership and a prime opportunity for bilateral engagement. Take India’s direct relationship with Washington, where high-profile visa issues, including the arrest of an Indian diplomat in New York, have strained relations. The United States denied Modi a visa in 2005 based on his role in Gujarat riots in 2002. But sometimes winning really does solve everything: after Modi’s election victory, Obama called to congratulate him and invite him to the United States. For his part, Modi is looking to put points on the board, not settle scores. Expect him to pursue an invigorated, pragmatic approach to international relations."

Excerpt from US News & World Report -- "An academic study on the CARD Act found that the legislation’s limits on fees reduced borrowing costs to consumers overall by 1.7 percent a year, and had a still more dramatic impact for borrowers with lower credit scores; people with credit scores below 660 saw their borrowing costs go down by 5.5 percent. All in all, this study found an even larger impact than the CFPB report, calculating that fee reductions as a result of the CARD Act have saved consumers a whopping $12.6 billion per year."

Excerpt from BBC -- "'The secret is to start small. Take the focus off thinking that you need to innovate everything,' said Aline Wolff, clinical associate professor of management communication at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'Instead, managers who juggle multiple tasks should pick one of them and reconsider how it’s typically completed.'"

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'The value of a criminal admission only has symbolic value to let the public know the Justice Department is out there doing its job.' said Roy Smith, a finance professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business and a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. partner. 'I don’t think it extracts anything other than an opportunity to register a symbolic victory.'"

Ajay Banga, President & CEO of MasterCard, will be the keynote speaker for NYU Stern's 2014 Graduate Convocation.

Excerpt from The Economist -- "Remarkably, they find that people pay a premium of 10%-15% less for 100-year leaseholds and 5%-8% less for leaseholds of between 125-150 years. Only for leaseholds of 700 years or more do they detect no difference in price. On the whole, they reckon, a discount rate of about 2.6% appears to apply out well beyond a century. Oddly enough, people are willing to part with real money now in exchange for benefit flows accruing well beyond any reasonable expected lifespan. That won't make it any easier to generate the political support for meaningful action to slow climate change. But it does make it harder to justify delay based on the fact that people simply don't care much about the distant future."

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "Ajay Banga, chief executive officer at MasterCard, will speak to MBA’s at NYU’s Stern School of Business on May 22."

Excerpt from Fox Business -- "I think fundamentally it's a story of economic growth and technological progress stimulating economic growth. The term 'sharing economy' is sometimes misleading because, at the heart of this, this is pure capitalism. It's markets, it's free markets, it's pricing, it's... people transacting with other people. And so when there's this kind of disruption, special interests or established interests do sort of step in and use what they can to sort of try and make sure that the interests that they have are preserved."

Excerpt from Financial News -- "Markets will continue to grow. But the key players in it, as they always have, will change. Big, systemically important banks will have their role to play, but a universe of smaller, less-regulated, non-systemic non-banks will be the source of much of the innovation and energy that sustain the markets."

Excerpt from AdAge -- "But releasing an app pits brands against the commandeering forces of social media and games. 'Unless you have something that's an incredible application in terms of utility, it's just a tree falling in the forest,' said Scott Galloway, a marketing professor at NYU. 'No one hears it.'"

Excerpt from Financial News -- "The study, Evasive Shareholder Meetings by Yuanzhi Li of Temple University and David Yermack of New York University, was published recently by the US National Bureau of Economic Research. It investigated the relationship between where and when US companies held their AGMs in the five years to the end of 2010, and the trends in their share prices in the six months after the meeting. When companies held meetings 1,000 miles away from their headquarters, the average cumulative stock returns over the next six month were -3.7%. For companies that held their AGMs at least 50 miles from their headquarters and 50 miles from a major airport, the average abnormal stock performance over the six month was -6.8%."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "When Laura Fox decided to go to business school, she chose NYU Stern for one reason: its urbanisation programme. 'Given the scale of urbanisation in the next 40 years, if we don’t get it right now, we are in real trouble,' she says. As she approaches the end of her first year, she is part of a team of three MBA students who are working with academics in the Marron Institute at NYU to help policy makers in Mexico City develop a more liveable city. 'This project is really different,' she says, 'because we are building a business-focused proposal for a policy group.'"

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "But there is a more fundamental point, says Prof Romer: should urbanisation be restricted or actively encouraged? He is clear: 'I decided to start working on urbanisation because in developing economies I concluded that the effect of urbanisation was the fastest way for their economies to grow.'"

Excerpt from Yahoo! Finance -- "In the second stage of the research, New York University’s Dr Adam Alter studied 500 first and last names of US lawyers. He found that those with the most pronounceable names were promoted faster than their unusually named counterparts, even though they had comparable skills and experience."