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Excerpt from The Economist -- "Globalisation’s advance has never been inevitable or smooth; nor, despite some backward steps since the crash, has it ended. That, at least, is the conclusion of the latest DHL Global Connectedness Index, published earlier this month. Two economists, Pankaj Ghemawat of New York University’s Stern School and Steven Altman of IESE Business School compiled it using data from 140 countries, which account for 99% of the world’s GDP and 95% of its population. It shows that, after a big post-crisis drop, the trend of growing global interconnection resumed last year. Globalisation is back."

Excerpt from Economic Times -- "'The density footprint in Delhi or Bangalore is not even comparable to its fleet in say New York city. There is plenty of room for Uber to expand,' said Arun Sundararajan, a professor at the Stern School of Business in New York whose research is focused on digital economics."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "'Remember that NIH has to pay attention to what the appropriators in Congress want, because they’re dependent on getting funding,' says Hegde. 'So our conclusion about soft earmarks is a more nuanced finding, but does indicate that soft earmarks are effective. And for the most part, I don’t think people are aware of the mechanisms through which allocations are made.'"

Excerpt from OZY -- "'The trick is going to be to make sure you have the right people representing your products,' says Arun Sundararajan, professor of information, operations and management sciences at NYU Stern. 'With social media, companies have already faced the challenge of losing control over the message.'"

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "'While there are benefits to OTC trading, typically trading happens through a handful of large institutions who dominate those markets,' says Rosa Abrantes-Metz, an adjunct professor at New York University. 'When you have that happen with a lack of information coming out to the ultimate buyers and sellers, there is the potential of abuse.'"

Excerpt from Global Times -- "China's success lies in its devotion to a win-win philosophy. Peter Henry wrote in his new book 'Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth', that America should learn from China's sustained commitment to a pragmatic growth strategy."

The NYU Stern Entertainment, Media and Technology (EMT) Alumni Committee and the Office of Development & Alumni Relations will host the NYU Stern EMT Summit on November 12.

Excerpt from Reuters -- "Don’t overestimate the near-term impact of oil prices in free fall. Yet, even if cheaper oil doesn’t upend these regimes — or align them with Washington — it will accelerate their deepening dependence on China. That is a recipe for greater instability and a more volatile global energy landscape."

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "Five years ago, G-20 leaders pledged to cut fossil-fuel subsidies. They now must redeem that pledge. Setting a timetable for phasing out all subsidies for fossil-fuel exploration would be smart economics. It would also establish the G-20 as a credible force in international efforts to secure an ambitious global deal on climate change."

Excerpt from Vox -- "Given the scale of the crisis, understanding the dynamics of the Eurozone is a major challenge for macroeconomics today. We argue that we need a quantitative framework to identify these various mechanisms, their relations and, ultimately, to run counterfactual experiments. This is what we do in a recent paper (Martin and Philippon 2014)."

Excerpt from Mashable -- "'It really becomes a question of what are you pricing it against,' Damodaran told Mashable in an interview. Snapchat may not be worth $10 billion to investors by itself, but if the market already values Twitter at $30 billion-$40 billion, then the Snapchat valuation may make more sense. 'Twitter, after all, is not that far ahead of Snapchat,' he argues."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "'Even if growth, inflation and employment data are at the right level to start hiking, the Fed would like to wait a little bit longer just to make sure that if they start hiking with the liftoff, they're not going to abort and go back to zero because otherwise they lose their credibility,' he said."

Excerpt from OZY -- "Investors have to be accredited in the U.S., which generally limits the pool of possible investors to the top 1 percent. Now? About the top 5-10 percent of the population can buy their way in, estimates NYU’s Stern Business School professor Anindya Ghose."
 

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Pankaj Ghemawat, global professor of management and strategy at the New York University Stern School of Business and a co-author of the survey, says that improving connectivity between sub-Saharan African nations—enabling more efficient movement of people, goods and information across borders—would make a vast difference to the continent’s economic prospects."

Excerpt from Financial News -- "It would be momentous and unprecedented for the Fed openly to force a bank to break up. But the power to do so under Dodd-Frank is certainly there, though the process is complex and can be appealed. Dudley’s cultural workshop may actually be less about culture and more a blunt warning to those banks the Fed considers to be moving too slowly in transforming themselves into the well-managed entities it wants. Those banks know who they are. As Dudley says, they need to 'get on with it'."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "In the adverse scenario of the ECB stress tests, capital adequacy is 5.5 per cent of risk-weighted assets while our measure is 5.5 per cent of total quasi assets. When risk weights do not adequately reflect risk, which has been widely observed for both European and US financial reports, then this measure of capital adequacy can be highly misleading. In an earlier study, Acharya, Engle and Pierret ('Testing Macroprudential Stress Tests: The Risk of Regulatory Risk Weights', Journal of Monetary Economics, 2014), we found that risk weights were negatively related to conventional measures of firm risk."

Excerpt from Luxury Daily -- "During the '"7": The Forces Shaping Prestige in 2014' session, L2 Think Tank boss Scott Galloway pointed out that Apple’s acquisition of CEOs from Burberry and Saint Laurent indicates that the brand is forcefully moving toward the luxury sector. The founder also warned that luxury brands will begin to face increasing disruption from outsiders."

Excerpt from the New York Post -- "It was a 'solid continuation of past progress,' according to New York University economics professor Joe Foudy, who said the highlight was that employment gains were scattered over 'a mix of industries.'"
 

Excerpt from Daily Mail -- "Roubini reckons hinting at that famous Chinese economic 'bubble' that credit fueled investment, will result in more bad assets for the banks and shadow banks, more bad investments in real estate, infrastructure and excess manufacturing capacity and more non-performing assets in the public sector."
 

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "...the biggest worry of all should be the most important person in the room. The reaction of that one person to your presentation is probably going to be the biggest factor in whether or not your presentation will be successful at accomplishing your goal. And that's true whether there are two people or 20 in the room."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "At Stern, mindfulness is the buzzword. The school is teaming up with NYU’s Center for Global and Spiritual Life to incorporate mindfulness in business leadership. Caitlin Weaver, Stern’s director of Leadership Development, says the shift to incorporate mindfulness training in the leadership program is two-fold—to increase decision making ability and to improve the the health of students."

Excerpt from WIRED -- "Coding education has taken off in recent years, driven by reports that the demand for quality programmers in America is drastically outpacing the supply. So everyone from the White House to Google has jumped on the coding bandwagon. Meanwhile, bootcamps have sprung up across the country. But the challenge is there’s no way for employers to know that the so-called graduates of these programs are any good. 'They’re new. They don’t have track records, so it’s hard to look at a person who’s graduating and evaluate and screen them,' says Prasanna Tambe, an NYU professor specializing in IT work force."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Professor Altman’s research found that serial bankruptcy filers had a significantly worse financial profile than the average sample of reorganized companies—whether measured in terms of corporate liquidity, solvency, profitability or leverage. Moreover, he predicted that serial filings would likely increase in the context of the increased predilection of investors and other stakeholders to focus Chapter 11 activity and reorganization plans on financial re-engineering, as opposed to operational performance improvement, of the distressed business."

Excerpt from mbaMission -- "In this competition, Stern and Kanbar students develop short films based on the sponsor’s specifications regarding content, length, and brand message. The films are judged by a panel of advertising and marketing executives, and the winning teams are given access to the resources of partnering media, entertainment, and communications companies to assist in screenplay production. The finished films—which are debuted at New York’s Tribeca Film Center—may be used by the sponsoring brand as part of the parent company’s advertising campaign."

Excerpt from Washington Monthly -- "Economist Thomas Philippon found that financial services themselves have become less, not more, efficient over this time period. The unit cost of financial services, or the percentage of assets it costs to produce all financial issuances, was relatively high at the dawn of the twentieth century, but declined to below 2 percent between 1901 and 1960. However, it has increased since the 1960s, and is back to levels seen at the early twentieth century. Whatever finance is doing, it isn’t doing it more cheaply."