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Prof. Nouriel Roubini on the major risks to the US economy

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Excerpt from Knowledge@Wharton -- "According to Nouriel Roubini, an economist at New York University's Stern School of Business, the major risks to the U.S. economy include 'deleveraging of the household sector, high unemployment, a housing double dip, state and local government problems, and gridlock in Congress.'"
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Prof. Thomas Cooley reflects on Dodd-Frank one year after the act was passed

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "Surviving institutions are likely to be stressed themselves in the event of a crisis," Thomas F. Cooley, an economics professor at the New York University Stern School of Business, said during a panel discussion on the financial reform law last month. And the fact that companies may be forced to pay up after the fact "may encourage them to take additional risk," he said.
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Prof. Irv Schenkler on the News Corp scandal

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Excerpt from Xinhua -- "Today, Murdoch basically said that I’m here to stay and I’m the best person to fix these problems. That may indeed work for the short run but his appearance also today showed a lot of people that this is an 80-year-old man and we lose control of some of our faculties over time and it may indeed come back to haunt him that he made that personal appearance and there may be some questioning on the part of a number of financial stakeholders, board members even whether it’s time for Rupert Murdoch to step aside."
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Prof. Thomas Cooley on how to prevent future crises in Europe

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Excerpt from VoxEU.org -- "The sovereign-debt crisis spreading through Europe is threatening the existence of the single currency. Meanwhile in the US, debt has been a problem for many states without threatening the US itself. This column proposes a way of preventing future crises in Europe by learning how policymakers in the US achieve fiscal prudence without loss of sovereignty."
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New Research Shows Diversification of Funds of Hedge Funds Increases Risk

It is widely believed that a diversified hedge fund portfolio strategy is an effective hedge against adverse market movements. New research by NYU Stern Finance Professor Stephen Brown, with co-authors Greg Gregoriou and Razvan Pascalau of SUNY College at Plattsburgh School of Business and Economics, shows this is not the case: well-diversified funds of hedge funds are more sensitive to risk than is the average hedge fund in extreme market conditions.
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Prof. Stephen Brown’s research, showing that diversification of funds of hedge funds increases risk

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Excerpt from The New York Times DealBook blog -- "Not only do funds of funds with more than 20 underlying managers begin to lose the benefit of diversification, they are also more exposed to tail risk events (or highly unlikely, devastating occurrences), according to the study, led by Stephen Brown, a finance professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business."  Additional coverage appeared on BNN, Professional Services Close-Up and Infovest21.
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini on the euro zone’s debt crisis

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Excerpt from Project-Syndicate.org -- "The eurozone crisis is reaching its climax. Greece is insolvent. Portugal and Ireland have recently seen their bonds downgraded to junk status. Spain could still lose market access as political uncertainty adds to its fiscal and financial woes. Financial pressure on Italy is now mounting."  Additional coverage appeared on a Forbes.com blog, Aljazeera.net, Sunday’s Zaman, Social-Europe.eu, TodayOnline.com, Profittimes.com, Slate.com, Korea Herald and GuruFocus.com.
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Prof. Roy Smith speculates on who will replace Tim Geithner as US Treasury Secretary

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Excerpt from Financial News -- "This summer, the financial cognoscenti have begun speculating on who Tim Geithner’s replacement will be as US Treasury secretary."
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini on Italy’s need for a new government

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Italy needs a new government of technocrats to weather the financial-market storm because Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s Cabinet has lost the confidence of investors, economist Nouriel Roubini told la Repubblica."  Additional coverage appeared on La Repubblica and San Francisco Chronicle.
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Data from New York University Provide New Insights into Real Estate

Excerpt from Investment Weekly News -- "We examine the role that analysts play in a firm's choice of underwriter using a sample of major United States investment banks."
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Guaranteed to Fail, by four NYU Stern professors, is highlighted as a “Top Business Book”

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'Guaranteed to Fail' by Viral V. Acharya, Matthew Richardson, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh and Lawrence J. White (Princeton). Four professors at New York University’s Stern School of Business explain how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac got so big and why we must fix them."
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Prof. Susan Stehlik on top advisers leaving Greenhill & Co. Inc.

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- “The problem is exacerbated when Wall Street reacts and the stock moves too much,” said Susan Stehlik, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. “That stock ticker can be as dramatic as an EKG or cholesterol test for some people.”  Additional coverage appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Prof. Richard Sylla on Dow Jones’s history

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Excerpt from Forbes.com -- "A few months back the folks at Dow Jones Indexes hosted a get-together to celebrate the Dow’s 115th anniversary, and one of the speakers was Professor Richard Sylla from NYU. Sylla discussed the Dow’s history, and featured a slide revealing just what came of the 12 original components selected by Charles Dow back in 1896."  Additional coverage appeared on Yahoo! News.
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Prof. Roy Smith on M&F Worldwide Corp.

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- “If the M&F board decides to put up the ‘for sale’ sign, then it has to be guided by Revlon,” Roy Smith, a finance professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, said in an e-mail message.
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Prof. April Klein on reverse stock splits

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Excerpt from Nightly Business Report -- "Companies tend to do the reverse stock split because their prices are low. Why are their prices low? Because they`ve been having poor earnings. So, unless they can change things around dramatically, it`s not going to go back up."
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Prof. Frances Milliken’s research on how people in power communicate differently is referenced

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "Frances Milliken did a marvelous study comparing how those in power think and communicate differently from the rest of us. They're more optimistic, prepared to take bigger risks and think in more abstract terms. And the more cut off they become, the more certain they are that they are right."
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Prof. Lawrence White on the importance of raising the US debt ceiling

Excerpt from the New York Daily News -- "The stock market will tank, which will damage everyone's portfolio and/or pension fund," White said. That's what happened when Congress initially failed to pass the TARP legislation in Oct. of 2008, White noted.  Additional coverage appeared on Zeit Online and PolitiFact.com.
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Prof. Matthew Richardson discusses Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

On The Daily Show, Prof. Matthew Richardson discusses Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from Guaranteed to Fail, co-authored with Profs Viral Acharya, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh and Lawrence White.
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Prof. Priya Raghubir on Toyota’s new RAV4 ad campaign

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Priya Raghubir, a marketing professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University, praised Burrell’s choice of a bulldog as a 'mascot' for the RAV4. 'It’s extremely memorable, like the Budweiser Clydesdale horses in their Super Bowl ads,' she said."
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Scientists at New York University Report Research in Automation Science

Excerpt from Journal of Robotics & Machine Learning -- "We consider the problem of cooperatively minimizing the sum of convex functions, where the functions represent local objective functions of the agents."
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NYU Stern and Centre for Economic Policy Research Publish E-Book of Conference Proceedings

NYU Stern and Centre for Economic Policy Research Publish E-Book of Conference Proceedings, "Dodd-Frank: One Year On"
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Dean Peter Henry on NYU's development as a global university

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Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "The move away from the stand-alone business school is also apparent at NYU Stern. Dean Peter Blair Henry says he joined the school in January 2010 because of the university president’s vision to develop a global university with the business school playing a part alongside the other departments."

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