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Excerpt from RenewableEnergyWorld.com -- "At the street level, the study found that a one percent increase in installed solar leads to a nine percent increase in the street adoption rate."

Excerpt from AGEFI Weekly -- "Instead of having to weight each asset, we should look at all the business in the portfolio of a bank and calculate its risk. The advantage is to take into account the correlation between assets and their volatility (French to English translation)."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- “Economic reforms of this sort take a long time to produce results ... it is likely that Portugal will need longer debt repayment terms or simply additional bailout funds." Additional coverage appeared in The International Herald Tribune.

Excerpt from Reason.com -- "'The Chronicle of Higher Education,' in advance of the publication of [Haidt's] brilliant (I have had the pleasure of reading the galleys) new book, 'The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion,' muses at his provocative notion of affirmative action for conservative scholars in academic psychology. " Additional coverage appeared in Science 2.0 and on Boston.com.

Excerpt from Foreign Policy -- "Nouriel Roubini and I both used the [Davos] conference to announce Russia shouldn't be a BRIC -- the response was very positive."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- “We’re not going to get very labor-intensive, relatively low-skilled jobs in America, and I don’t think we want them. But sometimes it makes sense to have a little help developing technologies that will make us competitive. And sometimes public support for upgrading workers’ skills makes sense.” Additional coverage appeared in CNBC.

Excerpt from Opalesque -- "Professor Stephen Brown describes how his recent research reports into operational due diligence have shown that operational risk is the 'disease' that plagues hedge funds and funds of funds, and accounts for low market-adjusted returns along with many of the fund failures that occurred in 2008."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Overall, art values rose 10.2% last year, according to art-market analyst Michael Moses."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Roubini, now one of the world’s most visible economic thinkers, has a similar view, though he sees the timing differently, with the worst coming in 2013 or 2014, when China will face a situation like the one the United States experienced in 2008."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- “It is fine to have low-skilled jobs as part of the mix or portfolio of employment opportunities. ... It is better than no jobs. But the mix is important too." Additional coverage appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek.

Excerpt from CNC World -- "A lot of hedge funds bought Greek debt that's maturing in March, in the hope that they bought it at deep discounts, in the hope that it would be paid out something close to par and that they would make a quick killing."

Excerpt from Downtown Express -- “We need to be thinking about the long term. Once you’ve sold off a building it’s gone and it’s so hard to find a good building site Downtown for a school.”

Excerpt from Slate -- "I'm a big fan of Paul Romer's essay that draws a different kind of contrast between the way the FAA regulates aviation safety and the way OSHA regulates workplace safety and the implications for financial regulation."

Excerpt from La Nazione -- "The assembly also elected four new members: Professor Gino Cattani, an associate professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University ... (Italian to English translation)."

Excerpt from Marketplace Radio -- "Obama wants to reward companies that create jobs here in the United States. One of the carrots is a tax credit for companies that move operations back here. Another would double tax breaks for high-tech factories making products here."

Excerpt from PRMIA.org -- "Edward I. Altman, Max L. Heine Professor of Finance, Stern School of Business, New York University will present his annual credit research on defaults and market conditions."

Excerpt from Energy Priorities Magazine -- “'Peer Effects in the Diffusion of Solar Photovoltaic Panels' is a report co-authored by Bryan Bollinger, NYU Stern School of Business, and Kenneth Gillingham, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. The ten years of collected and analyzed data strongly suggest there is a causal peer effect."

Excerpt from Stanford Events -- "Professor Van Nieuwerburgh's research lies in the intersection of macroeconomics, asset pricing, and housing. One strand of his work studies how financial market liberalization in the mortgage market relaxed households' down payment constraints, and how that affected the macro-economy, and the prices of stocks and bonds."

Excerpt from Global Finance Magazine -- "The issue of whether to let corporate end users off the hook is still pending. Until it’s settled, they can’t plan ahead."

Excerpt from Nature Biotechnology -- "The article investigates concerns that the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is taking too long to examine patents and is granting patents of low quality."

Excerpt from IMD.org -- "Dr. Spence focused on the challenges posed by big structural shifts in the world economy, which he said could triple in size in the next 20 years, from about $60trn to $180-200trn."

Excerpt from Deutschlandfunk -- "If you look at only the European market, then the proportion would be 95 percent, and that would be highly monopolistic. When in Chicago, New York, the stock exchanges in Japan and China to take, then shrinks the market share together for ten to 15 percent (German to English translation)."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- “Traditional asset allocation has provided diversification, superior returns, liquidity and cheaper fees. Alternatives have under-performed, are highly correlated to other asset classes, hinder liquidity, and charge high fees. This seems to be a comparison of a superior, less expensive product to an inferior, more expensive product.”

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "As politically and economically motivated uprisings sprouted around the world this past year, these problems also coexisted at Davos, one seeking to help solve the other while at the same time being blamed for being its primary cause."

Excerpt from The Atlantic -- "How much of moral thinking is innate? Haidt sees morality as a 'social construction' that varies by time and place. We all live in a 'web of shared meanings and values' that become our moral matrix, he writes, and these matrices form what Haidt, quoting the science-fiction writer William Gibson, likens to 'a consensual hallucination.'"