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Professor Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh has been awarded the 2015 Bernácer Prize, which is given annually to a European economist under the age of 40 who has made outstanding contributions in the fields of macroeconomics and finance.

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "[Henry] is adamant that financial services companies need to engage with the longer-term issues that preoccupy economists — such as income inequality — rather than just the more pressing matters that managers tend to focus on. In keeping with this mantra, NYU Stern is focusing fundraising on creating full scholarships for high-achieving, low-income students — the aim is to offer 200, up from 34 now. 'New buildings are wonderful, but we prefer to invest our resources in human capital.'"

Excerpt from Quartz -- "'[Cities] can’t contain expansion. Expansion is growing in leaps and bounds,' says Angel, who heads an NYU initiative that advises cities on how to make sprawl as 'vibrant, inclusive, and affordable' as possible. This rules out, for example, simply drawing an urban boundary to limit sprawl; places like Seoul and Portland, Oregon, have tried that and house prices have gone through the roof, making the cities unaffordable for many."
 

Excerpt from Bloomberg View -- "It's really a situation where we have to think about how do we change the laws in a way that accommodates this activity because a lot of people want to host on Airbnb. A lot of guests want Airbnb. So society wants this service. What I think will happen in the long run is a couple of things: One is that we will in fact change the laws around that prevent people from renting for less than 30 days and so on. But I think we're also going to delegate a lot of responsibility to parties other than the government."

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "This piece by Bernstein tells me more about how DCF is practiced (or mangled) at Bernstein than it does about DCF itself. As the piece indicates, a Bernstein DCF is a Robo DCF where as the risk free rate changes, nothing else does and not surprisingly the value goes up."

Excerpt from Vice -- "'Uber is a company that placed a very big bet on expanding aggressively within the US and abroad,' Sinziana Dorobantu, an assistant professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business who is researching opposition to Uber worldwide, told me. 'They never took the time to think about regulation very deeply, and there was a lot of backlash against them. Because of the backlash they realize they have to get into the game of lobbying themselves.'"

Excerpt from ARS Technica -- "'That’s a very serious issue, and a big social problem,' Economides said. 'You need high-speed Internet for national reasons, to get information, to get educated. That’s just not happening. We still have very high prices.'"

Excerpt from Directors & Boards -- "There is no shortage of criticism of the accounting model and the financial information derived from it, and a whole host of proposed remedies: disclosure of nonfinancial variables (key performance indicators, or KPIs); reporting on the impact of firms’ operations on people and the planet, in addition to profits (the 'triple bottom line, or the three Ps'); or reporting on the intellectual capital of companies (intellectual capital reports), to name a few."

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "'To me the real implication of this is highlighting the fact that lawmakers have to start recognizing that these categories are increasingly inadequate and something like unemployment benefits shouldn’t be reserved for one kind of work,' said Arun Sundararajan, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business."

On Friday, October 14, the Luxury & Retail Club will hold its tenth annual conference, themed "Expanding Horizons: Navigating New Channels and Thinking in Retail."

Excerpt from CCTV -- "Something doesn't work, and doesn't work catastrophically, as in this case, people will lose confidence to some extent on the brand of Samsung, even though the other Samsung phones are not affected at all by this problem."

Excerpt from CoinDesk -- "Overall, Yermack, who teaches a cryptocurrency course at NYU’s Stern School of Business, offered a much broader vision for the use of blockchain in finance than what the industry is considering, as well as more critical takes on how incumbents are exploring the tech."

Excerpt from CNNMoney -- "'The effect on morale has got to be debilitating,' said Irv Schenkler, a professor at NYU Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "'Twitter is a poster child for a company in need of adult supervision and I don't believe that [CEO] Jack Dorsey can run one company effectively, let alone two,' said Aswath Damodaran, finance professor at New York University Stern School of Business. Botching up their sale prospects, he says, is further evidence of Dorsey's inefficiencies as a leader."

Excerpt from Moneyweb -- "A monthly analysis by Engle and the Volatility Institute at New York University’s Stern School of Business ranks the systemic risk contribution (SRISK%) of a number of South African banks and financial services companies higher than the riskiest European banks."

Excerpt from ABC News -- "Ghose said that to restore trust with consumers, the company would have to recall all of the defective phones (a process it has started), pinpoint the cause of the problem, fully reimburse consumers and convince its business partners 'to give it another shot with the next set of product releases.'"

NYU Stern’s Business & Society Program welcomed Seema Saifee, staff attorney for the Innocence Project, and Darryl Howard, who was recently exonerated after serving 24 years for a wrongful murder conviction, to speak to an audience of undergraduate Stern students.

Excerpt from Reuters -- "'One of the risks for Bangladesh right now is that between the July terror attack, the legacy of Rana Plaza and now this (Tampaco fire), it begins to look like a non-desirable place to do business,' said Sarah Labowitz, co-head of NYU Stern's Center for Business and Human Rights. 'The government and industry really need to step up and respond.'"

Excerpt from mbaMission -- "Students with whom mbaMission spoke reported being consistently impressed by his capacity to make the complex simple in the classroom, stating that Brandenburger is able to take the 'complicated, theoretical and intangible' world of game theory and make it 'easy to understand and practical.'"

Excerpt from Ticker Magazine -- "The Knowledge Effect is grounded in academic literature. It was first discovered in a series of studies in the 1990s, when NYU’s Baruch Lev analyzed 20 years of financial data and discovered an association between a firm’s level of knowledge capital and its subsequent stock performance."

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "Scott Galloway, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, said Mayer probably relied on her legal counsel to vet the document rather than reviewing it herself. 'However, CEOs are ultimately accountable for what’s in the proxy,' he said, 'if it comes out that their lack of transparency was a function of them not wanting to hamstring the Verizon deal, then they've held material information back from an acquirer.'"

Excerpt from Sky News -- "During the referendum campaign, someone said the real danger of Brexit is you'll end up with higher interest rates, lower house prices and a lower exchange rate, and I thought: dream on. Because that's what we've been trying to achieve for the past three years and now we have a chance of getting it."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Internet service providers 'are trying to go after those folks who are willing to pay less, but not to appeal to those willing to pay more,' said Robert Seamans, an associate professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business and a former economist at the Obama White House."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Their research suggests CEO performance incentives should be set relative to performance of managers in similar industries, so as not to reward them for events beyond their control that affect all industries. 'That we do not see [this] more in practice is often a failure of governance,' Mr. Philippon said in an interview."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Mr. Altman, in the report, said the results show earnings growth is slowing across all sectors when compared to last year. 'While the companies in the middle market are profitable, this is the first quarter since we began tracking this data in 2012 that ebitda was essentially flat on a year-over-year basis,' he said."