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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "For instance, in his recent book, 'The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion,' Jonathan Haidt argues that, far from being a way of holding our moral beliefs up to critical scrutiny, moral reasoning is generally something we use merely to convince others of long-held beliefs that we are unwilling to abandon."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Is love for sale? Maybe not quite as directly as sex is, but economists believe that the quest for a romantic partner obeys essentially the same cost-benefit logic that governs every other market."

Excerpt from Washington City Paper -- "Arun Sundararajan, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business who traces the rise of the sharing economy from the early days of music and file sharing in the 1990s, says it’s time for regulators to adapt: 'Historically, when technology makes things more efficient, it always leads in the short term to disruptions and [regulatory] trouble.'”

Excerpt from Nightly Business Report -- "The one thing they have going for them is, they’ve run other companies very well in Brazil for a long time and these are people with a long history in consumer products."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "I think it's generally recognized when the bond issuers ask and are paying for the rating, there's a potential conflict. No question. But that conflict was present not only in the mortgage bonds but it's been present for over 40 years in plain vanilla corporate bonds, muni bonds, sovereign government bonds, and it didn't blow up there."

Excerpt from Institutional Investor -- "Observers predict that the FSB will impose minimums. If they’re too high, 'the market will, in boom times, find other ways to increase leverage,' says Bruce Tuckman, clinical professor of finance at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. One solution is instruments that can mimic repos, like total return swaps. As so often happens, the market may remain one step ahead of regulators."

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "But the dollars simply can't achieve the objective, said David Backus, an economist at NYU's Stern School of Business. 'Fifty billion dollars is basically an immaterial number for the U.S. economy,' Backus said. 'We have a 14-trillion dollar economy. Will there be an employment effect? Maybe. But it'll be swamped by anything else that goes on.'"

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "A trio of business professors studied six years of supermarket purchases in counties covering nearly half the U.S. population and found that, when it comes to groceries, conservatives like established national brands—and are significantly less likely to try new items."

As a part of the Conversations on Urbanization series held by NYU Stern’s Urbanization Project, former Bogotá Mayor Enrique Peñalosa spoke with Paul Romer, Director of the Urbanization Project and Professor of Economics, in a public presentation on February 12.

Excerpt from The Atlantic Wire -- "Our inclinations in the polling booth may influence our choices in the supermarket, according to a new study led by Vishal Singh of New York University's Stern School of Business."

Psychological research has shown that conservatives and liberals differ on basic personality traits such as conscientiousness, tolerance for uncertainty and openness to new experiences. Professor Vishal Singh of the New York University Stern School of Business and colleagues hypothesized that the conservative tendency to prefer tradition and convention would be reflected in conservatives’ purchasing behavior, leading them to choose established name-brand products over generic brands or new products.

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "At the core of Prof Henry’s research is historical analysis of stock market reactions to government reforms in emerging economies. He concludes that decisive and transparent plans to implement market-friendly policies repeatedly inspired market optimism in future growth."

Michael Warren, Principal of Albright Stonebridge Group, engaged with more than 100 MBA students at NYU Stern’s Block Lunch, hosted by Dean Peter Henry.

As part of NYU Stern’s Leadership Luncheon Series coordinated by the Stern’s Leadership Development Team, Stephen I. Sadove, Chairman & CEO of Saks, spoke with MBA students about his career and today’s luxury retail market.

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "Chicago Booth has a course on its MBA programme, as does the Tepper school at Carnegie Mellon University, while at the LSE the techniques are an integral part of masters and undergraduate programmes. NYU Stern and Schulich run standalone masters degrees in Business Analytics."

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "'The challenge,' John Seaman and George David Smith, historical and archival consultants, wrote in Harvard Business Review recently, 'is to find in an organisation’s history its usable past'."

Excerpt from Financial News -- "A more informed solution to avoiding avalanches would be to learn what Samuelson never did – how to identify where the next one might occur, (currently in the high-yield debt market) – and what to do to minimise widespread fallout. But this is not something former prosecutors, newly appointed as financial regulators, will find easy to do."

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "Apple’s mix of momentum, growth and value investors, and a rumour ecosystem that feeds trading means the two processes can yield very different numbers. Investors have to make judgments: first on the stock’s value relative to price; and second on whether the gap will close."

Excerpt from Marketplace -- "There's another risk with a high price tag, says Adam Alter, a professor of marketing and psychology at New York University. If you’re a friend or family member of a suspect, and you’re on the fence about turning in someone you love, a big reward might actually backfire because 'you're turning it in to an economic transaction for someone's freedom, which I think is for a lot of people quite offensive,' Alter said."

NYU Stern Professor Melissa Schilling has been appointed to the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Overcoming Barriers to Electric Vehicle Deployment. The committee will study the technological, infrastructural and behavioral barriers to widespread adoption of electric vehicles in the United States.

Excerpt from CNBC -- "'India, Russia, and China, all of them are moving towards state capitalism, and that's actually going to slow potential growth,' he told CNBC."

Faculty from top business and law schools convened on February 8 and 9 to present, discuss and debate their work at the ninth annual NYU/Penn Conference on Law and Finance. The event was co-hosted by NYU’s Pollack Center for Law & Business and the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Law and Economics, and sponsored by NERA Economic Consulting.

Excerpt from Foreign Policy -- "In an era of bubbles, crashes, tarnished reputations, and outrage over the gulf between the wealthy and the struggling classes, it may seem like the height of insolence to suggest that stock markets hold the key to economic recovery in the United States and Europe. Wasn't it market misbehavior that got us into this mess in the first place? But, in fact, policymakers would still do well to look to the stock market as an essential indicator of the likely impact of their reforms."

This year’s SWIB conference, themed, "Breaking Boundaries: The New Role of Innovation," will highlight how business is being transformed by values-driven female leaders who combine private sector profitability with creative and strategic leadership. Speakers will explore how women have innovated their careers, from design innovation to business model innovation to innovating for social change. SWIB is pleased to be hosting the following Keynote speakers: Irene Rosenfeld, Chairman and CEO of Mondelez International (formerly Kraft Foods), Bethany Mayer, SVP & GM of Hewlett-Packard Company, Marian Croak, SVP at AT&T Labs, and Elana Drell Szyfer, CEO of AHAVA North America.

The Conference on Extracting and 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 RND from options prices and analyzing the information it contains. Discussants from industry will also share their perspectives on this promising area of research.