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Prof. Viral Acharya on the federal regulation of banks

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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- “'Supervision by itself is not enough because it is within the regulatory perimeter' in which the Fed focuses primarily on banks, said Viral Acharya, a finance professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business who has served as an adviser to several Fed district banks."
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Prof. Hal Hershfield on using fashion to make a statement on technology

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "'It’s all about association. If Samsung wants to be perceived as hip, cool and cutting edge, it has to have a partner with the same qualities,' Hal Hershfield, assistant professor of marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business, said of Samsung’s alliance with Mr. Wang. 'Like Apple, which has a certain image, both Microsoft — with indie bands — and Samsung with fashion are saying that we can play this game, too,' Mr. Hershfield said."
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Prof. Aswath Damodaran on the value of Apple stock

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Excerpt from CNBC -- "'This is a company that's being priced for no growth and compressed margins already, so I don't understand why the market would react the way it does to news that is, in a sense, is not being built into the stock price,' he said."
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini on the Federal Reserve's policies

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Excerpt from CNBC -- "The 'easy money' policy of the Federal Reserve will continue for 'as far as the eye can see' and that's going to continue to be good for the U.S. stock market, noted economist Nouriel Roubini told CNBC on Tuesday."
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In an op-ed, Prof. Viral Acharya explains why India's debt structure is problematic

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Excerpt from LiveMint -- "While India has not experienced a crisis recently, the ownership structure of government debt seems problematic from the view of financial and economic stability. More than 80% of government debt in India is held by banks and state-owned insurance companies. This ownership structure, coupled with substantial public ownership of banks and financial institutions, implies a strong nexus between banks and governments."
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence's comments at the World Economic Forum are featured

Excerpt from Bloomberg BusinessWeek -- "The World Bank estimates that over the next five to 10 years, China will export something like 85 to 100 million jobs to earlier-stage developing countries, and that they will be replaced by higher-value-added activities. This is the opportunity of the century for the earlier-stage developing countries, because for a long time they’ve been saying, rightly or wrongly, that they can’t compete with China. Well, China is moving on just like Korea did before, and now is their chance."
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Prof. Luke Williams on turning a business into a franchise

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Excerpt from MSNBC -- "I think the main thing for the vehicle graphics company and anyone considering this is are you ready to be a franchise? Meaning, have you built a brand that other people would be interested in?"
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Prof. Arun Sundararajan on alternatives to captchas for online security

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Excerpt from Marketplace -- "That annoyance is why Ticketmaster says it’s switching to shorter, easier captchas. Instead of text, Ticketmaster customers will have to solve image puzzles. You might be presented with a picture of a car, a flower and a dog and be asked to identify the animal. 'This is something that is reasonably pleasant for the human being to go through but really difficult for computers to do,' says Arun Sundarajan, a professor of digital strategy at NYU’s Stern School of Business."
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Prof. Aswath Damodaran's valuation app, uValue, is featured

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "There are other online valuation calculators, including BizEquity and uValue, an iPhone app developed by Aswath Damodaran, a valuations expert at the Stern School of Business at New York University."
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Prof. Edward Altman on troubled companies and junk bonds

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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- “'Extend and pretend -- both in the leveraged loan market and the high yield bond market -- is bailing out just about anybody,'” Edward Altman, a finance professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, who created the Z-Score measure for bankruptcy risk, told TMA."
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Prof. William Silber on the Federal Open Market Committee's statement

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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "No surprises. The stock market isn't surprised either because it, in fact, has risen. We're at the highest level in years. It has risen in anticipation of no change, continued expansion."
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Prof. Anindya Ghose on the value of food pictures on social media

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Excerpt from Marketplace -- "Anindya Ghose, who teaches social media and digital marketing at NYU’s Stern School of Business, says there are two pluses to food pictures. 'Part of it is that it’s more information from a source that I’m more likely to trust: another user like me,' he says."
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Prof. Aswath Damodaran on the value of Apple stock

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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Apple Inc. has a 90 percent chance of being undervalued after a four-month drop in shares of the iPhone and iPad maker, according to Aswath Damodaran, a finance professor at New York University."
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Prof. Tom Meyvis on Birds Eye's new ad campaign

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Tom Meyvis, an associate professor of marketing at the Stern School of Business at New York University, said he doubted that 'parents would find the ads credible' because 'kids are not so excited about eating steamed vegetables.'"
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Prof. Lawrence White on current home prices

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Excerpt from USA TODAY -- "'We have probably hit bottom and we've probably come off the bottom a little,' says Lawrence White, economist at New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business."
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Prof. Richard Sylla on the evolution of businesses

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Excerpt from Entrepreneur.com -- "'Capitalism is creative destruction,' says Sylla. 'Old models get outmoded, and new models come in and take over.'"
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Prof. Paul Romer's research on looting is featured

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "Any bank that is too big to fail and to prosecute is a clear and present danger that should be promptly shrunk to the point that it can no longer hold the global economy hostage in order to extort immunity from the criminal laws for the controlling officers who became wealthy by being what Akerlof and Romer aptly described as 'looters.'"
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Prof. Tom Meyvis' research on the impact of purchases on happiness is cited

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Excerpt from US News -- "'People tend to overestimate how much events and experiences will affect their happiness in the long run,' Meyvis said. 'In the long term, it doesn't matter. You go back to your baseline level of happiness.'"
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In an op-ed, Profs Cooley & Schoenholtz explain why the US should end the era of big bailouts

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "In December, the U.S. and the UK took a significant step in that direction, announcing a common strategy for resolving insolvent cross-border financial giants, known as global systemically important financial intermediaries (G-SIFIs). In spite of this progress and the Dodd-Frank law notwithstanding, the specter of 'too big to fail' still haunts the financial landscape."
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini on the economic status of BRICs

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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- “'BRICs have been hyped up too much,' Roubini said in an interview today at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland."
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In an op-ed, Prof. Arun Sundararajan outlines his predictions for Apple

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Excerpt from CNBC -- "To stay on top over time, Apple will have to engage actively in the creative destruction of the very revenue model that sustains it. They will gradually have to sacrifice the device lock-in afforded by iTunes."
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Prof. Edward Altman on the types of companies that may face bankruptcy in 2013

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Excerpt from Reuters -- "With the U.S. government mulling significant cuts to the defense budget, smaller companies that contract with the government for defense projects could suffer, Altman told a group of restructuring professionals at his 12th annual Corporate & Sovereign Credit Market Outlook luncheon."
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini on the current state of the eurozone

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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "The fundamental problem -- look at the unemployment numbers in Spain today, rising even further. They're really shocking numbers."
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Prof. Michael Spence on economic reform in Europe

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Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "In Europe we need to get through a few elections without a major disruption of the reform programs needed to continue the stabilisation of bond markets."
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Prof. Arun Sundararajan on the importance of a Unique Identification (UID) system for India

Excerpt from Outlook India -- "As more and more people get to use it, more and more applications will start getting attached to it. The blueprints already demonstrate how it can be used to access the banking system for transactions or how it can be used to open a bank account or get a mobile phone connection."

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