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Professor Paul Wachtel shares his predictions for China's economic future

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Excerpt from CBS -- "'It's most likely that the Chinese will continue to be drawn to U.S. real estate, both commercial and residential,' Wachtel said. 'You're going to see many billions of dollars flowing into the U.S. as we remain the one safe haven compared to the slower growth in Europe and the considerable weakness in the emerging markets.'"
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Professor Arun Sundararajan comments on new research findings about Uber and New York City traffic

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "'If anything, [the research] findings seem to be as favorable as Uber or Lyft might have wanted them to be,' said Arun Sundararajan, a New York University business school professor who was solicited for advice in the city’s study."
 
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Professor Jeffrey Simonoff's research on Oscar nominations is referenced

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Excerpt from The Boston Globe -- "Another study published in 1999 by the Stern School of Business at New York University found that movies that debut on 10 or fewer screens can expect an Oscar-nomination bump that would boost sales by about 250 percent, while movies that open on more than 10 screens can expect a 30 percent boost."
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In an in-depth interview, Professor Vasant Dhar discusses robots as investment decision makers

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Excerpt from O'Reilly Data Show -- "One of the things I did was to break up the investment landscape into three different types of holding periods. On the one hand, you have high-frequency trading, and on the other extreme, you have very long-term investing. In high-frequency trading, your holding periods are sort of minutes to a day. In very long-term investing, your holding periods are months to years, that Warren Buffett style of investing. Then there’s sort of a space in the middle, which is the part I find most interesting, where there’s a lot of action, which is sort of days to weeks holding period. … The strategy one uses for these different horizons tends to be very different. In the high-frequency trading space, for example, humans don’t really stand a chance against computers, there’s just so much information."
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In an op-ed, NYU Global Research Professor Ian Bremmer outlines the factors influencing China's financial markets

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Excerpt from TIME -- "A surprise currency devaluation and continued downward drift in the value of the yuan against the dollar have investors concerned that some of China’s trade partners will have to devalue their own currencies to avoid losing a competitive commercial advantage. That could trigger a currency war that would ravage global trade."
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In an op-ed, Professor Nouriel Roubini argues that unconventional monetary policy led to abnormal patterns of economic growth worldwide

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Excerpt from TIME -- "The world economy has had a rough start in 2016, and it will continue to be characterized by a new abnormal: in the behavior of growth, of economic policies, of inflation and of key asset prices and financial markets."
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Professor Richard Sylla is interviewed about the history of the lottery

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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Lotteries have long been a form of public financing and the museum has tickets from the Revolutionary and early Federal era in its collections, said Richard Sylla, the [Museum of American Finance's] chairman. He said his dorm at Harvard was built in the early 1800s partly with lottery money."
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Professor Irving Schenkler predicts that Chipotle's stock price will rebound

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Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "'They are very lucky to have built up a reservoir of trust over time,' agrees Schenkler, at NYU. 'They have reputational capital, which gives them a well of goodwill. So once media coverage erodes, things will get back to where they were.'"
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Professor Gavin Kilduff's research on using sympathy in negotiations is featured

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Excerpt from Business News Daily -- "Taking a cutthroat approach isn't always the best way to get what you want when negotiating, new research finds. Bringing emotion into negotiations often elicits compassion from the other party, making that person more likely to develop sympathy and, in turn, more willing to compromise and find creative solutions, finds a study set to be published in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes."
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Professor Dolly Chugh illustrates the concept of "bounded awareness"

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Excerpt from SarderTV -- "The easiest way to think of bounded awareness, it's that moment we experience when we're looking for the butter in the fridge and we claim there is no butter in the fridge. And we insist that we looked and there really was no butter in the fridge. And then our family member comes and says, 'There's the butter in the fridge!' And we say, 'How did I miss that? How did I not see it right in front of me.'"
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In an in-depth interview, Professor Michael Spence reflects on the weakness of the global economy

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Excerpt from Diario Financiero -- "The collapse of the stock market in China and increased global volatility triggered by the devaluation of the yuan, he said, 'will not lead to a collapse' in the second-largest economy in the world, but it may be pointing to problems the Asian giant will have 'for longer than had been thought.'"
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SEC Administrative Proceedings Increase as Constitutional Challenges Continue

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A report issued jointly by the NYU Pollack Center for Law & Business and Cornerstone Research reveals that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed 76 percent of its enforcement actions against public company defendants as administrative proceedings in fiscal year (FY) 2015.
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Professor Melissa Schilling discusses innovation in consumer technologies

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Excerpt from Machine Design -- "'... Sony invested in improving their technology of Super Audio CD at a time when they believed customers cared about every increasing fidelity,' says Schilling. 'Unfortunately, we were already nearly at the limits of human hearing in terms of audio fidelity, so the payoff to increasing fidelity wasn’t very big. While Super Audio CD and HD Audio were competing to be the highest fidelity audio formats, the MP3 format offered customers something they valued more—portability—and wiped Super Audio and HD Audio off the map.'"
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Professor Richard Sylla discusses the evolution of America's banking landscape

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Excerpt from The News Journal -- "'For about 150 years, the United States did not have interstate banking and what those did was help advance the agenda of that movement so that, lo and behold, we got the Riegle-Neal Interstate Banking Act of 1994,' [Sylla] said."
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Professor Baruch Lev emphasizes the importance of company conference calls for investors

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Excerpt from NexChange -- "'The accounting system provides very little, very biased information,' says Baruch Lev, professor of accounting and finance at New York University. 'The call is a very, very important venue to provide this information.'"
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Professor Lawrence White discusses Bernie Sanders' claims about Glass-Steagall

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Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "'Commercial banks could have [lent money to shadow banks] in the 1960s or earlier, even before the Fed and the OCC [Office of the Comptroller of the Currency] and court decisions began to loosen the strictures of Glass-Steagall,' said Lawrence J. White, an expert on financial regulation at New York University’s Stern School of Business."
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In an op-ed, NYU Global Research Professor Ian Bremmer explains the importance of learning about other cultures

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Excerpt from LinkedIn -- "In short: learn cultures, not languages. Study other points of view. The more you know about different regions of the world, the better off you are. You’ll need it going forward."
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In an op-ed, Professor Roy Smith shares a positive long-term economic outlook

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Excerpt from Financial News -- "The U.S. has begun to raise interest rates and called off its 'QE' activity, actions that ought to be followed before long in the EU and Japan. In general, governments now are less pressured to help the weak and more worried about all the debt they have taken on. They recognise that economic policies have to be more pragmatic."
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Professor Aaron Tenenbein explains why using birthdays decreases a person's odds of winning the lottery

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Excerpt from CBS -- "NYU statistics professor Aaron Tenenbein did the math and found there’s only a 1 in 300-million chance of winning it all. 'If you’re an average golfer, you have a better chance of getting two successive holes in one,' he told CBS2’s Hazel Sanchez."
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Professor Aaron Tenenbein calculates an individual's chances of winning the Powerball Lottery

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Excerpt from the Associated Press -- "The probability of you winning the lottery if you don't play is zero. The probability of you winning the lottery if you do play is about the same. And the reason for that is the probability of you actually winning on a single ticket is 1 in 292 million, which works out to be 0.00000000342."
Research Center Events

TRIUM Global Executive MBA Program Holds Inaugural Module in Silicon Valley

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The TRIUM Global Executive MBA program, a partnership between NYU’s Stern School of Business, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and HEC Paris School of Management, held a module in Silicon Valley, California from January 8 - 18, the first in the program’s history.
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In an op-ed, Professor Nicholas Economides argues that Greece and the New Democracy party will fail without economic reforms

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Excerpt from Kathimerini -- "Without reforms, a reduction of the State sector, reduction in taxation and increase in production, Greece will continue to repeatedly need EU loans, with its misery increasing. Still, prime minister Tsipras is popular because the opposition parties, and especially ND [New Democracy] have not yet presented reforms and policies that would solve the present problems."
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Professor Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh cites the growing real estate job market for MBAs; MBA students David Gleitman and Alex Lebowitz are featured

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Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "'A lot more pension funds and sovereign wealth funds dramatically expanded their portfolios into real estate,' says Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, professor of finance at NYU Stern. This expansion is creating jobs in real estate beyond being a developer or landlord on the ground. 'Employers are contacting me daily to circulate positions among our real estate students,' he says."
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Drawing from his general social survey analysis, Professor Vishal Singh demonstrates bipartisan support for gun control

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Excerpt from CNBC -- "'Although public opinion fluctuates based on political, religious, and other demographics and in response to major mass shootings or presidential politics, there appears to be a majority bipartisan desire to establish certain level of gun control — at least as measured by response to the question in the GSS,' said Vishal Singh, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business. Singh has closely studied the general social survey and has constructed an interactive visualization tool based on GSS data."
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Professor Robert Salomon identifies several causes for increased M&A activity over the past year

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Excerpt from The Atlantic -- "'Interest rates are at historic lows ... companies had lots of capital available to them to borrow to engage in deals,' says Robert Salomon, an associate professor of management at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'The second factor that you can’t ignore is that corporate balance sheets have a lot more cash: The amount of cash on them [is] at an all-time high.'"

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