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Excerpt from The Globe and Mail -- "Baumol's cost disease – an economic theorem often proven empirically and named after the economist William Baumol – shows that wage gains always outstrip productivity improvements in the public sector. Baumol's cost disease poses a huge challenge for provincial governments, whose services – health, education, social services – are very labour-intensive."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Nearly all economists, including those who express concern over income disparities of the 1920s, count multiple factors at work preventing recovery in the 1930s. They do not blame stock prices, or even President Coolidge. Yet it is human nature to believe that when an event follows an event, the first event causes the second. The misery of the ’30s was of such magnitude, or so the narrative suggests, that most people want to believe it must have been preceded a force of similar magnitude. Post hoc, ergo Gatsby."

Excerpt from Harvard Business Review -- "Many people feel disconnected from the individuals they’ll be in the future and, as a result, discount rewards that would later benefit them. But brief exposure to aged images of the self can change that behavior."

Excerpt from The Daily Beast -- "Karen Brenner, executive director of law and business initiatives at New York University’s Stern School of Business, notes that law tends to lag business practice, leaving wide loopholes. 'When that’s the case, companies are left to their own decision-making processes on what is right, compared with what is legal,' she said."

Excerpt from ABC Online -- "So some people must be unable to appraise or evaluate their own skills accurately. And that's what David Dunning and Justin Kruger found way back in 1999, with their paper entitled Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognising One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments."

Excerpt from WIRED -- “'The reduction in price is partly driven by the fact that if the used game market were eliminated, gamers would no longer be able to sell their games and get back some money (so they need to be compensated),' [Ishihara] said."

Excerpt from CBC Radio -- "To me, encouraging the sharing economy is actually very much consistent with nurturing social democracy. I think we just have to figure out what roles does the government have to play and what roles can the marketplaces play on their own."

Excerpt from Business Insider -- "At the GMI Ratings seminar on May 14, NYU finance professor Dr. Baruch Lev spoke memorably about the decline of traditional accounting and our collective hope for a superior model. The relevance of this topic for investors today continues to become clearer, as evidence accumulates about the incidence and systemic repercussions of corporate fraud and misleading disclosure practices."

Excerpt from LiveMint -- "While there is a general euphoria about the introduction of these instruments, it is important to understand why the option of issuing inflation-indexed bonds was not availed in the past few years when inflation levels and uncertainty were significantly greater."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "A principal in the consulting firm Global Economics Group and adjunct associate professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, Rosa Abrantes-Metz applies econometric screening techniques to the detection of conspiracies and market manipulation."

Excerpt from Charlotte Observer -- "This 'catch-up' phenomenon – the reasons for it and the lessons that we in the developed countries can learn from it – is the subject of economist Peter Blair Henry’s impressive new book 'Turnaround: Third World Lessons For First World Growth.'”

Excerpt from Canadian Press -- “'I think there is a balance between what the government should be doing and what the marketplace should be doing on its own,' Sundararajan said."

Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "The next ten years will be characterized by major structural adjustments and shifts in individual economies, and by a huge reconfiguration of the global economy as a whole. Above all, much depends on the policies adopted by the two largest economies, China and the United States, and their cooperation and leadership in creating global public goods and maintaining a stable and open economic environment."

Excerpt from USA Today -- "'The (amount of) buzz, or word of mouth, is immensely important for the eventual success of the project,' Ghose says. 'This is a powerful weapon … that researchers and academics can utilize.'"

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- “'Financial-services companies have made some strides and have recognized you simply can’t write off the brains of 50% of the world’s population,' Wellington said, while adding Jones seemed to have 'written off' that population."

Excerpt from TheStreet.com -- "'There are plenty of vendors but no one has the functionality and experience and knowledge that's gone into their products like Bloomberg and Thomson," said Vasant Dhar, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business and director of its Center for Business Analytics. 'There are alternatives, but they've become very entrenched. This discussion about privacy and data may be a good thing for the market, it might put some competitive pressures on the incumbents.'"

Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "Schoenholtz cautioned that the Fed has zero experience with using the interest rate of reserves as the primary tightening tool and doubts will persist until it works in practice. 'It works in theory but until we see it in actual practice we don’t know if it is useful,' he said."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "'They want to get their reputation back,' said Roy Smith, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business. 'They know that means giving up some business.'"

Excerpt from Risk Magazine -- “'Transaction-based indexes are by far the best, but Libor has a challenge in that there just aren’t enough transactions. Given that, the committed quote system will guarantee – more than other systems – continuation of the index whenever transactions don’t exist,' says Rosa Abrantes-Metz, adjunct associate professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "First off, his record is unbelievably outstanding. And I don't think there is anybody that can add value to putting in and somehow confusing the role. Jamie Dimon is an incredibly hard-working, able, there is nobody even close to him in the financial world in terms of his ability to run that enterprise. And it just clutters it up to force somehow a chairman. In fact, I think it could probably only hurt the company, in the sense that it would just confuse who is in charge."

Excerpt from ABC News -- "'These new platforms let people start playing with your children—your brands, your most valuable assets, which you're incredibly proud of. You feel protective, very uncomfortable,' says Scott Galloway, professor of marketing at NYU's Stern School of Business. 'But this is also a huge opportunity, because the more you let people be emotionally invested in your brand, the stronger it is.'"

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "There’s nothing wrong with Apple taking advantage of tax loopholes. Where Apple has screwed up here, is bragging about it and raising the concern and complaining about it. If you’re able to have some of the lowest tax rates in the world, while being the most profitable company in the world, you don’t go in front of Congress to complain about it…He [Apple CEO Tim Cook] is justifiably going to get mauled in front of Congress."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "I think in general, the idea of having split roles can be a good thing, but that doesn't obviate the need to think through the particulars of every single case. And in this case, there is absolutely no reason to call for splitting the roles. The company has performed in a stellar fashion and even when it suffered the loss from the London trade, the company was forthright in dealing with the problem. So I think that's the best you can expect from any company."

Excerpt from Charlie Rose -- "Both economies face very large challenges. They're different, but ours is out of balance, struggling to find a sustainable path of growth that deals with employment and the distributional aspects of our pattern of growth and the Chinese have... a very substantial mass of structural change coming in their economy. At $6,000 per capita income, they aren't going to be the low-cost competitor in a number of industries so...what we believed after we spent some time with each other is that the old relationship is changing very fast and what we needed to do was to bilaterally understand the challenges in both economies and then go after the places where we can make a material positive difference."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "At NYU we track upstream and downstream traffic to try and get a sense of a company or a platform's power in the ecosystem and what you see across social media networks is while platforms like Pinterest and Instagram are accelerating, year on year, we actually saw that Tumblr's upstream and downstream traffic to and from retailers who would likely be a big source of advertising dollars is only slightly up, so among the battle of who is the fairest platforms, it looks like Tumblr is kind of flat to modestly down in our research."