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Prof. Lawrence Lenihan is cited as the founder of FirstMark Capital

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Excerpt from New York Post -- "FirstMark Capital, founded by managing director Lawrence Lenihan, announced the fundraising on its Web site yesterday."
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An op-ed by Prof. Amity Shlaes on Paul Krugman's claim of a worldwide depression

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "So it’s official. The New York Times, or at least columnist Paul Krugman, has declared us to be in a worldwide depression. And just in time for Christmas." Additional coverage appeared in San Francisco Chronicle, The Jakarta Globe, DelawareOnline.com and Press Democrat.
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Prof. Viral Acharya on EU ring-fencing requirements

Excerpt from GFS News -- "Viral Acharya, an economics professor at New York University, says ring-fencing requirements are not the priority tool for preventing another financial crisis and should be looked at as part of a group of rules."
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Prof. Eric Greenleaf predicts severe overcrowding in downtown Manhattan schools

Excerpt from Downtown Express -- "'We need to absolutely make sure that the Peck incubator will fit in Tweed for all three years,' echoed Eric Greenleaf, a business professor at New York University whose student enrollment projections indicate severe overcrowding in Downtown schools in the years to come."
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A letter-to-the-editor by Prof. David Backus on Nobel Laureate Prof. Thomas Sargent

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Excerpt from Financial Times -- "It is a shame that Prof Kay’s macroeconomic education stopped in the 1970s. He might find more recent work to his liking, including Prof Sargent’s work (with Lars Hansen) on behaviour when you are not sure how the world works."
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An op-ed by Prof. Evan Shapiro on the future of television

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "In fact, American TV is stronger now than ever, with no signs of slowing down. Rather than destroying television, these 'disruptive' technologies have created something new called 'TV,' which is more potent, more vital and more important than at any point since the first black and white broadcasts." Additional coverage appeared in Popbytes.com.
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An interview with Prof. Nicholas Economides on the euro falling

Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "It's inspired by Germany, it's a way to go forward with much more discipline. I'm afraid though that the way it was set up, it was almost blackmail fashion. You have to accept it, or if you don't accept it the financial markets are going to eat you alive."
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Thomas Sargent on the euro zone's sovereign nations

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "To use an American analogy recently promoted by Nobel laureate and New York University economist Thomas Sargent, the 17 have been trying to fix their debt and banking problems under the equivalent of the Articles of Confederation, not the Constitution."
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence is cited for speaking at last year's Delhi Economic Conclave

Excerpt from Newstrack India -- "Last year we did a small conference around this time, Michael Spence was the international speaker."
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence's book, "The Next Convergence," is referenced

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Excerpt from Business Insider -- "Keene also shared his seasonal reads with us. For the winter he's all over Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow, and his book for the fall was Michael Spence's, The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World."
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Prof. Nicholas Economides says US banks are vulnerable to the European crisis

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "American banks' vulnerability to the crisis in Europe is 'substantial across the board,' said Nicholas Economides, economics professor at New York University's Stern School of Business."
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Prof. Amity Shlaes's book, "The Forgotten Man," is cited

Excerpt from The New American -- "'From 1929 to 1940, from Hoover to Roosevelt, government intervention helped make the Depression Great,' writes Amity Shlaes in 'The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression.'" Additional coverage appeared in Belleville News Democrat and American Spectator blog.
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Prof. Thomas Sargent is highlighted for receiving the 2011 Nobel Prize in Economics

Excerpt from Princeton University -- "Princeton University professor Christopher Sims accepted his Nobel Prize in economics Dec. 10 during a ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden. The prize was awarded to Sims along with Thomas Sargent, a New York University economist and visiting professor this semester at Princeton, for developing tools to analyze the economic causes and effects of monetary policy."
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Thomas Sargent is cited as a "rational expectations" leader

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Excerpt from Financial Times -- " ... 'rational expectations' practitioners, of whom Thomas Sargent is an acknowledged leader, might claim to derive inspiration from von Hayek’s earlier work on the role of markets and the use of knowledge in society (American Economic Review, 1945)."
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Executive Board Member Richard Bernstein on investing in small-cap stocks

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Excerpt from CBS News -- "Smaller U.S. companies are starved for capital much the way that emerging markets, energy and commodities were 10 years ago." Additional coverage appeared in Business Insider.
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An op-ed by Research Scholar Robert Frank on improving the US government

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Excerpt from New York Times -- "If government is inevitable, why not try to create the most effective one possible? Success requires focus and hard work, which in turn require dedicated and competent public servants. But experience shows that it’s possible."
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence's research on US job creation is cited

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Excerpt from Financial Times -- "According to a study this year by Michael Spence, a Nobel Prize-winning economist from Stanford University, and Sandile Hlatshwayo, all net job creation since 1990 has been in the 'non-tradable sector.'" Additional coverage appeared in US News & World Report.
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Prof. Thomas Sargent is highlighted for winning the 2011 Nobel Prize in Economics

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Excerpt from Associated Press -- "Americans Christopher Sims and Thomas Sargent won the economics prize for describing the cause-and-effect relationship between the economy and government policy." Additional coverage appeared in Arirang News, Reuters Africa, Bloomberg, Gulf News, and MSNBC Photo blog.
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Prof. Paul Romer's charter cities concept is applied to Honduras

Excerpt from The Economist -- "The Honduran regions are modelled on a concept called 'charter cities' developed by Paul Romer, an economics professor at New York University. The principle is simple: take a piece of uninhabited land big enough for a city of several million, govern it by well-tried rules and let those who like the idea move there."
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Prof. Amity Shlaes on the Great Depression and her book, "The Forgotten Man"

Excerpt from The Economist -- "Amity Shlaes, an economic historian, argues that 'government intervention helped make the Depression Great.'" Additional coverage appeared in Crain's New York Business and PBS Newshour.
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Prof. Nicholas Economides on the ECB's liquidity crisis

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "To actually resolve the liquidity crisis, Economides said, either the ECB would need to ramp up its purchase of government bonds, or the European Financial Stability Facility and the European Stability Mechanism -- two bailout funds -- would have to be expanded to contain enough money to be capable of bailing out both Italy and Spain and still have some money left over."
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Research Scholar Robert Frank's views on how to reduce US unemployment are highlighted

Excerpt from Media Matters for America -- " ... there are other ways to attack unemployment that could garner bipartisan support. Perhaps the most promising is a payroll tax holiday." Additional coverage appeared in New America Foundation, New York Times blog, and Phillyburbs.com.
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Prof. Vicki Morwitz on Apple's new Grand Central Terminal store

Excerpt from ItaliaOggi -- "This means that they included 'individuals usually considered as the target of Apple, for example, creative people who work in advertising agencies as well as business executives,' Vicki Morwitz told ItaliaOggi (Italian to English translation)."
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Prof. Daniel Altman's research on unemployment insurance is referenced

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Excerpt from US News & World Report -- "Fiscal experts Martin Feldstein and Daniel Altman found that the 'most thoroughly researched effect of the existing UI system on unemployment is the increase in the duration of the unemployment spells.'"
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Prof. Lawrence White on endorsing Rutledge & Raynes as a credit ratings agency

Excerpt from International Herald Tribune -- ‘‘Customers may be happy to employ R&R, and pay some fees, but a public vouching may be more than the customer wants to do."  Additional coverage appeared on a New York Times blog.

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