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The FCC should preserve net neutrality - By Nicholas Economides
Who do you think should decide what content you can most readily access, you or your Internet service provider (ISP)? Although we suspect most Americans would like to decide for themselves, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has concluded that your ISP—that is, AT&T, Comcast, or one of a few other large corporations—should decide for you. For that is, in effect, what he proposed last week in scrapping net neutrality regulations. Read more
—- Biography: Professor Nicholas Economides
- Department: Economics
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Prof. Thomas Philippon & PhD Germán Gutiérrez's research on corporate investments
Excerpt from Reuters -- "They found that the investment gap is driven by firms in sectors with less competition which elect to prioritize financial engineering and share buybacks over investment. Interestingly, these firms tend to be owned by institutional shareholders which shadow the equity indices, and who perhaps prefer short-term management, in line with their own career risk, over long-term investment." Read more
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Research from Stern's Center for Business and Human Rights on worker safety in Bangladesh
Excerpt from The Atlantic -- "Sarah Labowitz and Dorothée Baumann-Pauly, the authors of the study, found that of the 3,425 inspections that took place in Bangladesh in the wake of the Rana Plaza collapse, only eight factories have fixed enough of their violations to pass a final inspection, despite the fact that brands, nonprofits, and other organizations have poured more than $280 million into safety-improvement efforts. Labowitz and Baumann-Pauly estimated that the two 2013 safety initiatives still left out more than half of the country’s 5.1 million garment-factory workers." Read more
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NFL and Amazon – The Future of Sports Entertainment - By Al Lieberman
Today’s entertainment companies are at a constant battle between each other and within themselves. The growth of social media platforms, skinny-bundles, cord cutting and the escalating prices of television rights has put enormous pressure on TV broadcast networks, in particular. While no specific industry has emerged unscathed, the world of sports entertainment has been hit especially hard. Read more
—- Biography: Professor Al Leiberman
- Department: Marketing
— Opinion
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New Research Explains Why Men Are Less Likely to Act as Champions for Gender-Parity Initiatives - By Elad Sherf
New Research from NYU Stern's Elad Sherf Explains Why Men Are Less Likely to Act as Champions for Gender-Parity Initiatives Read more
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Biography: Elad Sherf
Department: Management and Organizations— Research Highlights
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When push comes to shove, how quickly will you give up your data for convenience? - By Anindya Ghose
People are full of contradictions, going through life saying one thing and then doing another. For example, people think they care a lot about data privacy, but they are often willing to use their data as currency. We may have a gut-instinct to protect our privacy, but we are increasingly are also willing to trade that data for either convenience or money. Read more
—- Biography: Professor Anindya Ghose
- Department: IOMS
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Sticking with Tradition Makes Sweet Music for Steinway - By Gino Cattani, Roger L.M. Dunbar and Zur Shapira
Marketers wishing to take advantage of word of mouth to promote their products or services might benefit from manipulating a self-serving human need to boost one’s own sense of competence. NYU Stern Professor Andrea Bonezzi delicately probed this phenomenon in a series of experiments that confirmed that people who give advice to others often benefit from that act in a very personal way. Read more
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Biography: Professors Gino Cattani, Roger L.M. Dunbar and Zur Shapira
Department: Management and Organizations— Research Highlights
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Faculty Awards & Accolades – May 2017
Faculty Awards and Accolades highlighted in the May 2017 issue of Stern's Faculty Research Brief. Read more
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Reprieve or Reform in Europe? - By A. Michael Spence
The first round of the French election turned out much as expected: the centrist Emmanuel Macron finished first, with 24% of the vote, rather narrowly beating the right-wing National Front’s Marine Le Pen, who won 21.3%. Barring a political accident of the type that befell the former frontrunner, conservative François Fillon, Macron will almost certainly win the second-round runoff against Le Pen on May 7. The European Union seems safe – for now. Read more
—- Biography: Professor A. Michael Spence
- Department: Economics
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A Safe Asset For Europe - By Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh
There is an emerging public debate on European Safe Bonds (ESBies). As the authors of the original proposal in 2011 of the Euro-nomics group, we welcome that debate. From a European perspective, we feel it important that discussions are informed by a common understanding of what ESBies are — and what they are not. Read more
—- Biography: Professor Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh
- Department: Finance
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Business Education Should Include Human Rights Issues - By Michael Posner & Dorothée Baumann-Pauly
Globally operating businesses routinely face human rights issues. However, very few business schools offer programs or even individual classes examining how businesses should address these concerns most effectively. Read more
—- Biography: Professor Michael Posner
- Department: Center for Business and Human Rights
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Infrastructure Could Be Trump's Key to Tax Reform - By Ingo Walter
Getting close to the end of his first 100 days in office, President Trump badly needs a win on domestic policy, and he’s selected tax reform. Tax reform is almost as complicated as health care reform, but most people believe good tax policy can benefit things they care about - incomes, employment and growth - so the political underpinnings are there to bust the bunker of special interests entrenched in the current US tax system. Read more
—- Biography: Professor Ingo Walter
- Department: Finance
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Prof. Adam Alter's research on cognitive disfluency & Prof. Yaacov Trope's research on psychological distance
Excerpt from Factor Daily -- "...this theory, proposed by psychologists Nira Lieberman and Yaacov Trope, suggests that this construal level is a function of another concept called psychological distance. ...research by Adam Alter and Daniel Oppenheimer has shown that using hard-to-read fonts in a message or advertising can manipulate the mind into a higher construal level, while easy-to-read fonts can lead to lower construal levels." Read more
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Scholar-in-Residence Gary Friedland on the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program
Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "This is how the Beverly Hills Waldorf Astoria ended up as an EB-5 funded project, with $150 million in foreign investment by 300 investors at $500,000 each, according to a report by Friedland for the NYU Stern Center for Real Estate Finance Research. ... 'The original intent was to establish an incentive for immigrants to invest in areas that can’t otherwise attract conventional capital,' Friedland said. 'Instead, virtually all projects qualify. It’s merely serving to enhance the returns for those developers.'"
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Intimidation Is the New Normal on Campus - By Jonathan Haidt
Images of fires, fireworks, and metal barricades crashing through windows made for great television, but the rioters who shut down Milo Yiannopoulos’s talk at the University of California at Berkeley didn’t just attack property. Fewer cellphone cameras captured the moments when they punched and pepper-sprayed members of the crowd, particularly those who seemed like they might be supporters of Yiannopoulos or Donald Trump. Read more
—- Biography: Professor Jonathan Haidt
- Department: Business & Society Program
— Opinion
