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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."

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."

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."

Excerpt from Forbes -- “'We’re going to have to invent new economics to capture the impact of the sharing economy,' says Arun Sundararajan, a professor at the Stern School of Business at NYU who studies this phenomenon."

Excerpt from The Guardian -- "Viral Acharya, a professor at NYU's Stern School of Business, believes that it is helpful for these companies to go out of business because it requires their employees to work on new efforts for innovation rather than being attached to old, dying technologies."

Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "But there is at least one academic study that found that the Dow Theory has genuine merit. It was conducted in the mid 1990s by three finance professors: Stephen J. Brown of New York University, William Goetzmann of Yale University, and Alok Kumar of the University of Miami."

Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "The study, done by Edwin Elton, Martin Gruber and Christopher Blake, showed that 401(k) plan administrators choose mutual funds that lag comparable indexes. When changing plan offerings, administrators routinely chase returns and do not improve performance."

Excerpt from the Wall Street Journal -- "The settlement serves 'as a warning to others, to set a precedent that says, "Look, this is behavior we don't think is appropriate and we're going to take appropriate action,'" said Lawrence J. White, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from Al Jazeera -- "The World Bank estimates that over the next five to 10 years, China will export something like 85-100 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."

Excerpt from Today.com (NBCNews.com) -- "Myspace liberally borrows features from other social networks, but experts caution that could be a double-edged sword. Users obviously aren’t looking for redundancy, but a remix has the chance to deliver a better experience, said Sinan Aral, an assistant professor and Microsoft faculty fellow at the New York University Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "A 2010 study from New York University's Stern School of Business found that a single appearance by the first lady can generate $14 million in value for a company."

Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "The global economy this year will exhibit some similarities with the conditions that prevailed in 2012. No surprise there: we face another year in which global growth will average about 3%, but with a multi-speed recovery – a sub-par, below-trend annual rate of 1% in the advanced economies, and close-to-trend rates of 5% in emerging markets. But there will be some important differences as well."

Excerpt from the Economic Times -- "There is a lot more entrepreneurship in India than before; people are willing to overcome handicaps and that's why India has a chance to maintain such growth."

Excerpt from the Business Standard -- "Students from HR College and St Xavier’s College, Mumbai, come to our institute for a short period in May. India is very important to us and we plan to gradually increase our presence here. India is one of the top four leading providers of students to NYU Stern."

Excerpt from LiveMint -- "Despite the largest financial crisis since the 1930s, progress towards international coordination of financial regulation remains dismally slow. To speed the development of a harmonized regulatory framework, policymakers need to focus on international rules for financial instruments, rather than just financial institutions."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "The good news is that the leadership team appears committed to the systemic reforms that are required to get that done. We'll see."

Excerpt from BBC Radio -- "LIBOR was constant. It essentially took the same value day in and day out for a period of about a year and that by itself is an unexpected pattern because one would expect that borrowing costs would vary, even if slightly, over time, and therefore one would expect the LIBOR, even if just a bit, to move from one day to the following."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "'Participants tend to allocate inefficiently,' he said. 'If you give them bad choices, then there is a tendency for them to put more money into those bad choices.'"

Excerpt from Marketplace -- "Luke Williams of the Stern School of Business at NYU says Warby Parker’s model is daring, as it tries to upend an industry that many didn’t think was broken."

Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "New technologies of various kinds, together with globalization, are powerfully affecting the range of employment options for individuals in advanced and developing countries alike – and at various levels of education."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "'We have low growth, we have low inflation below target, we have zero federal funds…in 2015, we're doing QE3 (a third round of quantitative easing), maybe QE4,' he said."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "I think everyone's taking a cue from Steve Jobs and Apple and that is you build suspense, you make an event out of something even perhaps when there isn't an event. Perception is more important than reality."

Excerpt from the Huffington Post -- "These goals are in sharp contrast to the present situation, in which many large corporations have just one goal: maximizing the return to the shareholders. In fact, this goal has now become so dominant that it is often thought to be a legal requirement. It definitely is not."

Excerpt from US News -- "'If they see it via Facebook, I'm not sure someone is going to change their 401(k) contributions,' says Hal Hershfield, an assistant professor in the marketing department at New York University's Stern School of Business, and coauthor of the original marketing research. 'If, on the other hand, they are actually in the mindset of trying to get more information about retirement, I think this could have a measurable impact on the types of decisions that they make.'"

Excerpt from NBC News -- "I think what they`re trying to do is to get in front of this issue as much as they can."