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Stern's newly expanded Volatility and Risk Institute (VRI) is profiled; VRI Co-Directors Professors Robert Engle and Richard Berner are quoted on the VRI's expansion and core mission

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Excerpt from GARP.org -- "The Volatility Institute at New York University's Stern School of Business, founded in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, has a new name – the Volatility and Risk Institute – signifying a focus beyond just financial risks. The institute and its Volatility Laboratory, or V-Lab, are renowned for continuous measurements and forecasts of volatility in financial markets, among them the SRISK systemic risk analytics...The expanded institute now has co-directors: Engle, who was director of the Volatility Institute; and Richard Berner, professor of management practice."

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