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NYU Stern Professor Hal Hershfield and his colleagues H. Min Bang and Elke U. Weber of Columbia University find that the best way to encourage environmentally friendly behavior is to emphasize the long life expectancy of a nation, not its imminent downfall.

Excerpt from Reuters -- "There are a number of factors why the commodities supercycle is probably over. First of all, China is slowing down. The growth rate may be as low as 6 or 7% in the next few years and the growth rate is going to be less resource intensive as they move away from capital intensive to consumer society... Additionally, we have a slow recovery in advanced economies and monetary policy is going to be tightened, however gradually. The Fed eventually is going to start tapering, eventually is going to go away from zero policy rates and that increase in short and long rates is going to soften commodity prices as well."

In a new study, Professor Vicki Morwitz and Stern alumnus Edith Shalev (PhD ’10) show that counting down (i.e., 100 to 1) while performing a task shortens the perceived duration of the task compared to counting up (i.e., 1 to 100).

During the Entrepreneurs Challenge Kick-Off, attendees will hear about NYU Stern’s Annual New Venture Competition and Social Venture Competition – both sponsored by Stern’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation – as well as NYU’s Annual Technology Venture Competition, hosted by Stern’s Berkley Center and NYU’s Innovation Venture Fund.

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- “'As we seek to bring a better cost-benefit balance within GAAP for private companies, we’re initiating at least potential simplification for all entities from yet another direction,' Mr. [Jeffrey] Mechanick said at an accounting roundtable hosted by the NYU Stern School of Business. 'We’ve often looked at public companies first and here we’re looking at private companies first.'”

Excerpt from TIME -- "As crowdfunding expands, some worry that deregulation of startup investing will lead to inexperienced investors being duped into bad deals. 'That’s the flip side of opening this up to the rest of the world,' says Anindya Ghose, a professor of information, operation and management sciences at New York University who also studies crowdfunding. 'You might end up hurting a lot of people who don’t need to be hurt.'”

Excerpt from CNBC -- "It's almost impossible to value the company as it stands right now, because you know so little about the company. In fact, all we know are the revenues it made over the last 12 months. So valuation is almost impossible. But the focus of my post, which I had on Twitter, was that when you can't value the company, you can price it, price it based on what other companies are trading at. So for instance, if you looked at Facebook and LinkedIn and you looked at the revenue multiple that those companies trade at, which is about seventeen-and-a-half times revenue, you come up with about 10 billion...simplistic, but that's pretty much what pricing is. You base it on very simple metrics and numbers that you already know."

Academics, practitioners and policymakers gathered at NYU Stern on September 23 for a roundtable discussion on “Big GAAP vs. Little GAAP: Public Company and Private Company Reporting.”

President John Sexton and Dean Peter Henry welcomed Stern alumnus Nicolas Berggruen (BS '81), chairman of the Berggruen Institute on Governance, to campus this month for a discussion with NYU students on his new book, "Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century."

Excerpt from Financial News -- "So far, the argument against spin-offs of troublesome investment banking units has been that the banks derive too much of their consolidated profits from them and that significant capital may have to be added before allowing them to become independent. But the Amex deal showed that these issues can be resolved. And a spin-off can be beneficial to shareholders who made significant gains from the increases in the stock prices of both units. The share prices of Citigroup, Bank of America, Barclays and Deutsche Bank are, on average, still 75% lower than they were in January 2008. Their boards could do well to monitor closely GE’s proposal and keep an open mind."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Is there a way that we can explain supporting Medicare while cutting Medicaid, Social Security but not welfare checks, farm subsidies but not food stamps? For readers of Jonathan Haidt’s amazing book, 'The Righteous Mind,' the answer should be 'yes.' It lies in reciprocity."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "'The U.S. is much more advanced and has much more success than other economies. The growth in the U.S. is going to be much faster than Europe, the U.K. and Japan,' Roubini said. 'Gradually the dollar is going to increase in value rather than collapse the way some dollar doomsday folks believe.'"

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "NYU Stern School of Business is launching a new event series for prospective applicants interested in their full-time MBA and executive MBA programmes. The series will start this month by introducing participants to Stern’s faculty, who will share their views on the future of a diverse set of industries."

Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "Around the world, policies, technologies, and extended learning processes have combined to erode barriers to economic interaction among countries. Pick any indicator: trade relative to global GDP, capital flows relative to the global capital stock, and so forth – all are rising. But economic policies are set at the national level, and, with a few notable exceptions like trade negotiations and the tracking of terrorist funding and money laundering, policymakers set goals with a view to benefiting the domestic economy."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Ukraine should work with the European Union rather than a Russian-led customs union in order to boost its economy, said Nouriel Roubini, a professor of economics and international business at New York University. Ukraine’s 'macroeconomic condition is fragile' because of widening current-account and fiscal deficits and growing needs for external financing, Roubini said today at the annual Yalta European Strategy Conference on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast."

Excerpt from the Institute for New Economic Thinking -- "On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and ushered in the worst part of the recent financial crisis. Today, we still discuss whether taxpayer money should have been used to rescue Lehman. My colleagues at NYU and I have developed measures of systemic risk, and this fifth anniversary affords us a good opportunity to look at what these measures would have indicated to Treasury Secretary Paulsen if they had been available at that time. The answer is quite surprising."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'Policy makers need some way to gauge the relative likelihood of future events,' Kocherlakota said today in slides prepared for a speech in New York. 'For policy makers that care about social welfare, the relevant probability is a risk-neutral probability.'”

The Conference on Extracting & Understanding the Risk Neutral Probability Density from Options Prices will bring together researchers from NYU Stern and the Federal Reserve Banks of New York and Minneapolis to describe the work they have been doing on extracting the risk neutral density from options prices and analyzing the information it contains.

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "Arun Sundararajan, a professor at NYU Stern who studies the sharing economy, said the decision was a good example of regulation nurturing innovation. 'I like that it shifts a set of responsibilities that used to be the government’s to the platforms themselves,' he said. 'This is the right direction for the digital economy.'”

Excerpt from USA Today -- "Commercial paper outstanding shrunk by 15% a month after the Reserve fund's collapse, to $1.43 billion, according to a paper written by Kacperczyk and Philipp Schnabl, then with the Stern School of Business. Financial commercial paper — the type used by investment banks and finance companies to fund their operations — plunged 30% in the wake of the Reserve collapse, in large part because money funds aggressively reduced their holdings."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota speaks at 1:45 p.m. at a conference at New York University Stern School."

Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "This generation of students is incredibly sophisticated in terms of their self-awareness. We encourage them and give them the flexibility to determine their strengths, values and interests. There is not a pack mentality. Our career development process is a very personalized one."

Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "We are in the process of learning how to manage growing policy interdependence without much policy coordination. The challenge is to identify policy circuit breakers that have relatively high benefit/cost ratios. Time and experience will help – that is, so long as high volatility does not destabilize many economies in the interim."

Excerpt from the Los Angeles Times -- "The Stern School of Business at New York University, Fuld's alma mater, has adapted its required course on professional responsibility in the years since Lehman's collapse. 'The crisis gives us such amazing material on how you can get terrible, terrible outcomes — sometimes not involving terrible people,' said Jonathan Haidt, a specialist in moral psychology who co-teaches the course."

Excerpt from Dhaka Tribune -- “'Meeting at Stern encouraged a frank discussion of the challenges and opportunities in Bangladesh. It underscored the need for greater coordination among the various national and international actors, for greater transparency and for a longer term look at the sustainability of the current sourcing model,' Labowitz said."