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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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An interview with Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence on the prospects for the European Union

Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "I think this is one of the many two-scenario situations where we could get a sufficient commitment from the European Union and the eurozone to prevent Italy from spiraling out of control even with a credible reform program or we could get some kind of deadlock in the process as they try to figure out what a fiscal union would look like and then I think most of us would probably want to take cover." Additional coverage appeared in Yahoo! Finance and Bloomberg Radio.
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Prof. Hal Hershfield's research on retirement savings is featuredE

Excerpt from About.com -- "An assistant professor of Marketing at New York University's Stern School of Business, Hershfield found young people were more motivated to save for retirement when they saw older versions of themselves in a virtual world."
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Prof. David Poltrack on the impact of DVR playback on late night TV

Excerpt from TV Guide -- "But the biggest change impacting late night is DVR playback, according to CBS research chief David Poltrack. Poltrack says DVR usage at 11:30 p.m. would collectively rate a 3.0 in adults 18-49, nearly doubling what Leno and Letterman rate combined."
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Executive Board Member & Prof. Richard Bernstein on the global economic conditions

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Excerpt from Council on Foreign Relations -- "Experts analyze the current economic conditions around the world and discuss potential threats in 2012." Additional coverage appeared in Xinhua.
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Prof. David Yermack's research on how Michelle Obama's fashion choices affect stock prices is cited

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "'The stock price gains of the companies whose clothes she wore in public appearances are cumulative abnormal returns. That is, the returns cannot be attributed to normal market variations. The stock price gains persist days after the outfit is worn and in some cases even trend slightly higher three weeks later,' [Yermack] told Harvard Business Review."
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini is cited as a contributor to "The Occupy Handbook"

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Excerpt from New York Observer -- "Little, Brown also just signed an Occupy anthology, "The Occupy Handbook," edited by Janet Byrne and including contributions from Paul Krugman and Robin Wells, Michael Lewis, Robert Reich, Nouriel Roubini, Robert Shiller, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Bethany McLean, among others."
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Prof. Amity Shlaes on the GOP presidential candidates

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Excerpt from Marketplace Radio -- "This year the GOP is fielding plenty of new candidates. John Huntsman and Mitt Romney have not represented a state in Washington. But Newt Gingrich is gaining popularity. Newt is not new."

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