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Excerpt from Marketplace -- "In order to draw people to the site, Yahoo needs strong, unique content – different from what Netflix or Hulu is offering, says Sam Craig, a professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business. 'It’s a crowded marketplace out there and unless you have something with an identity, people aren’t going to come to it,' he explains."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Technically, without the poison pill, if he can find a way to get himself back in a controlling share, he can find a way to get back in. Obviously, the fact that this has been one of the most entrenched CEOs in US corporate history who was actually ousted by his board full of friends suggests there's no way they're going to let that happen without a very serious fight at this point in time."
 

Excerpt from Cosmopolitan -- "Economists call it the denomination effect: When you have small bills, you're more apt to spend them on little stuff. On the other hand, you wouldn't break a $50 or a $100 bill to buy a pack of gum or a soda."

Excerpt from Charlie Rose -- “Our point is that this situation is one that is not a stable equilibrium, is not even a stable disequilibrium. It’s an unstable disequilibrium. Take for example the eurozone. You cannot have just a monetary union without banking, political, economic, fiscal union. Either you move towards more integration or you’re going to have more fragmentation and disintegration. So the situation we face right now in the global economy, same in the eurozone, is of an unstable disequilibrium, therefore a new abnormal, that cannot be sustained.”

Excerpt from The Villager -- "Affordable housing’s presence in the same building would not likely affect the ability of a condo buyer to secure a mortgage, according to Lawrence J. White, an N.Y.U. economics professor and expert on the mortgage industry. 'It seems odd that Fannie would not buy an individual mortgage loan from an originator by an otherwise perfectly suitable borrower who had all the requisite conditions,' he said in a phone interview."

Excerpt from LinkedIn -- "Finance professor David Yermack demonstrated that firm performance suffers when CEOs have access to a corporate jet for personal travel. Guess who uses that privilege most often? CEOs with membership in exclusive golf clubs far from their homes."

Excerpt from New York Magazine -- "Kilduff has found that rivalry increases both effort and performance. An analysis of competitive runners showed that they shaved more than four seconds per kilometer off their times when a rival was in the same race. In another study, Kilduff and colleagues found that NCAA basketball teams play stronger defense — a good measure of hustle — when competing against rivals."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "'Either this was a very clever piece of disinformation or a very careless error by the government. It’s a little hard to know which from a distance,' David L. Yermack, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, said of the leak. 'You want to create the illusion that there’s immense demand for this if you’re the government because you want people to bid as much as they’re willing to.'"

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "The U.S. prosecution of a major international bank for evading sanctions has changed the game. BNP allegedly stripped out identifying information from wire transfers to disguise sanctioned countries as origins or destinations of international payments. By raising the cost of violating the rules to significant levels, the Justice Department has ensured that U.S. sanctions will be complied with and effective."

Excerpt from Scientific American -- "In Melissa Schilling’s network model of cognitive insight, insight can be viewed as the emergence of clarity among a tangled web of thoughts and ideas. According to Schilling, cognitive insight occurs when an atypical association is made, resulting in a shortcut in a person’s network of semantic representations. Insight affects the organization of the entire network, causing a decrease in path length, a new perspective on the entire network, and a cascade of other connections to come online."

Excerpt from Harvard Business Review -- "As many as one-fourth of all mergers and acquisitions of public companies in the U.S. appear to be the targets of undetected insider trading by investors with advance knowledge, according to a New York Times report on research by Menachem Brenner and Marti G. Subrahmanyam of New York University and Patrick Augustin of McGill University. The researchers discovered the instances of what they call 'informed trading' through a statistical analysis of stock-option movements; fewer than 5% of the deals became the subject of Securities and Exchange Commission litigation over insider trading."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "One of the very best forms of stimuli comes from looking at other industries for ideas, relevant analogies, and problem solving. The trickiest part is to figure out which industries to benchmark. That, in itself, requires brainstorming sessions."

Excerpt from Scientific American -- "That music can move us is no surprise; it’s the point of the art form, after all. What’s new here is the manner in which the researchers have quantified in fine-grained detail the cognitive ramifications of unpacked melodic compounds. This investigation of music’s building blocks may be more relevant than you suppose. Nowadays, experts in the production room can hone a track—the timbre, tone, rhythm, phrasing—with digital precision. These songwriters and producers are the true geniuses behind the success of popular music today, and they seem to have an intuitive grasp of the phenomena underlying the findings of this psychology article. An extra breath-sound here, a pitch adjustment there—these additives pepper the songs we hear on the radio. So the next time you hear a piece of music from the Billboard Top 40, it may be interesting to wonder, how many components were manipulated just so, in order to change the way I think?"

Excerpt from Marketplace -- "The argument going back 80 years ago was that this kind of financing would not otherwise have been available. So this is an area of market failure, as economists say. That's a much less compelling argument in the 21st century. Financial markets are extraordinarily sophisticated and could probably step in, so it's harder to make a case that the government has got to step in."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "We believe that trading based on inside information has negative externalities for the market as a whole and should be illegal, as it is, in many countries. Our study raises a red flag regarding activity in one area of the market, and hence, it may be worth paying more attention to the activity in the options market ahead of important corporate announcements. Does this evidence suggest that the U.S. stock markets are rigged? We do not believe so. There is possibly some rogue trading, but it does not necessarily have a major impact on M&A activity, and certainly not on the market as a whole."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "'While the SEC has taken action in several cases where the evidence was overwhelming, one can assume that there are many more cases that go undetected, or where the evidence isn't as clear-cut,' authors of the Stern School/McGill study wrote."

Excerpt from VoxEU -- "Many important policy decisions require a consideration of costs and benefits that arise in the distant future. For example, many of the costs of climate change occur 100 or more years from now, yet actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have to be taken today to avert those long-run costs. In recent weeks, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change mitigation report, or UN climate change report, presented and discussed different options for reducing such emissions, but contended that 'most mitigation strategies have costs in the present and yield benefits in the future. Policy making involves assessing the values of these benefits and costs and weighing them against each other.'"

Excerpt from The Economist -- "Mr Bazot calculates a unit cost for finance by comparing the sector’s income with the stock of financial assets—'the real cost of the creation and maintenance of one euro of financial service over one year'. He finds that, outside France (where it has been stable), the unit cost has increased over the past 40 years; a 2012 paper by Thomas Philippon of New York University found a similar result for America."

Excerpt from Big Data -- "In financial markets, a larger question for society is how we might improve market conditions for all investors and create a marketplace that is best for society. Quite incredibly, the answer is with the additional transparency through big data that are made available to all."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "America and China are the world’s two major powers, with the largest economies and militaries. The stakes are high for them to practice what they preach on foreign policy: their words and actions influence the global economy, as well as the behavior of allies and enemies. The problem: Xi Jinping and Barack Obama want to have their foreign policy cake and eat it, too. For both leaders, international engagement isn’t top of mind: they want to downplay their global leadership roles in order to focus on more pressing concerns at home."

Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "Despite China’s widely discussed economic slowdown, annual GDP growth remains above 7%, implying little cause for alarm – at least for now. The question is whether the government’s efforts to implement structural reforms and transform the economy’s growth model are working – that is, whether internal imbalances continue to threaten long-term economic performance. Given that China remains the global economy’s most important growth engine, the answer matters to everyone."

Excerpt from The Hindu -- "Appointment of such experts on international markets (financial, commodities, and services) in key government departments would pave the way for effective policy formulation in improving access for Indian companies to global markets, attracting global capital, and mitigating the impact of global forces on the volatility in Indian commodity and financial markets due to spill-over effects, [Subrahmanyam] said."

Excerpt from Thomson Reuters -- "This list of top researchers around the globe have earned their distinction by publishing the highest number of articles that rank among those most frequently cited by fellow researchers."

Excerpt from Fortune -- "Peter Henry, dean of New York University’s Stern School of Business and author of the book Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth, told me last year, 'We are at a critical point in time and advanced countries are off track.' The discipline we need is not fiscal austerity but a 'sustained commitment to prosperity that is both vigilant and flexible–and values what is good for the public as a whole,' he says. It’s encouraging to see disciplined policy in democracies, as we began to see in 1994 in Brazil, Henry told me."

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "'There are emotional reasons for why [customers] are loyal, in spite of new information that there might be safety issues,' Erdem said. 'For example, these people may have memories of GM cars. They may remember things growing up with their families in a GM car... It's not rational,' Erdem said."