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Stern Faculty Go to Washington to Discuss Housing and the Economy

NYU Stern Finance Professor Matthew Richardson (above at the podium) speaks about reforming mortgage finance at a Conference on the GSEs, Housing and the Economy, hosted by Stern's Salomon Center and the Center for Financial Policy at the University at Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business on January 24, 2011.
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Professor Xavier Gabaix Awarded TIAA-CREF Institute Certificate of Excellence for His Research

Xavier Gabaix, Professor of Finance and Martin J. Gruber Chair in Asset Management, and his colleagues received a certificate of excellence from the TIAA-CREF Institute for their paper, “The Age of Reason: Financial Decisions over the Life Cycle with Implications for Regulation.” In the paper, the authors analyze 10 different types of credit behavior of people of different ages and conclude that younger and older adults may need additional guidance with respect to financial matters; they find that the "age of reason" (when people make the fewest financial mistakes) is 53 years old.
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Stern in the News: December 2010

In December, NYU Stern generated almost 800 media hits. Stern faculty were featured for their research and perspectives on a variety of subjects including risk calculation, brands replacing religion as a source of self-worth, detection of proprietary trading and the economic outlook for emerging economies in a number of prominent outlets such as Bloomberg, CNBC and The Wall Street Journal. Additionally, in 34 op-eds, Stern faculty discussed the Wikileaks data dump, President Obama’s tax cut deal, overcompensation of financial sector employees, Russia and Qatar as World Cup sites and the gold investment boom.
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NYU Starts Technology Venture Competition

In an effort to spark innovation and expand entrepreneurship opportunities, NYU is launching the Technology Venture Competition this fall. The competition, which is open to NYU students, faculty and researchers, has a top prize of $75,000 to the winners. The Entrepreneurs Challenge, launched in 1999, is the premier platform for identifying, nurturing and showcasing entrepreneurial talent at NYU. In addition to the newly created Technology Venture Competition, the Entrepreneurs Challenge includes the Annual New Venture Competition and the Social Venture Competition.
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Stern in the News: November 2010

In November, NYU Stern generated almost 800 media hits. Stern faculty were featured for their research and perspectives on a variety of subjects including closet indexing, consumer behavior, the art market and Eurozone debt contagion in a number of prominent outlets such as Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes and the Financial Times. Additionally, in some 40 op-eds, Stern faculty discussed entrepreneurship, TSA screenings, the ramifications of the 2010 midterm elections, Michelle Obama’s market-moving fashion choices and fossil fuels.
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NASA, White House, PETA Lead Government, Non Profit, Trade Groups in Social Media, Online Strategy

NASA, the White House and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) outpace other public sector organizations when it comes to social media savvy and online strategy, according to the first annual Digital IQ Index® for the Public Sector.
Research Center Events

Scholars Gather to Share Latest Research in Network Economics at Eighth NET Institute Conference

Distinguished academics from around the world convened to share their research in the rapidly evolving field of network economics at the Eighth Networks, Electronic Commerce and Telecommunications (NET) Institute conference, held in partnership with NYU Stern’s Entertainment, Media and Technology Program.
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Digital Innovation Takes Center Stage at Eighth Annual Future of TV Conference

Convening approximately 130 industry experts, NYU Stern MBA students and alumni, and academics, the Eighth Annual Future of TV Conference focused on digital media and innovation in today’s rapidly changing TV industry. Hosted by Digital Media Wire, in association with NYU Stern and the Consumer Electronics Association, the event was co-chaired by Professor Al Lieberman, executive director of NYU Stern’s Entertainment, Media and Technology Program, and Ned Sherman, CEO and publisher of Digital Media Wire.
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Volatility Institute, DTCC Host Conference: "Managing Counterparty & Systemic Risk Under Dodd-Frank"

More than 100 financial, academic and regulatory representatives participated in the conference, "Managing Counterparty and Systemic Risk Under Dodd-Frank," co-hosted by NYU Stern's Volatility Institute and the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC).
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Volatility Institute & DTCC Sponsor Forum on Managing Counterparty & Systemic Risk Under Dodd-Frank

More than 100 representatives from the financial, academic and regulatory communities participated in a forum sponsored by NYU Stern's Volatility Institute and the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation that discussed cutting-edge thinking and approaches to achieving the risk mitigation goals under The Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
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Business Leaders Suggest Solutions for Challenges to Business and Society in the 21st Century

In November, the NYU Pollack Center for Law and Business, a joint initiative between NYU Stern School of Business and NYU School of Law, co-hosted the 1950th Meeting of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, “Challenges to Business & Society in the 21st Century: The Way Forward.” Rajat Gupta, senior partner emeritus and former managing director at McKinsey & Company, and Roger Ferguson, president and CEO of TIAA-CREF, spoke about recovery and reform, and long-term financial security, respectively.
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Investment Banker & Former US Ambassador Felix Rohatyn Reflects on Life in the Politics and Finance

“New York is the apple of the universe,” said Felix Rohatyn, Lazard investment banker, former US Ambassador to France and author of Dealings: A Political and Financial Life, before an auditorium filled with close to 150 students and alumni from NYU Stern, as well as students from NYU’s School of Law and Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
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NYU Stern and L2 Discuss What it Takes to Innovate in a Digital World

Led by Scott Galloway, NYU Stern Professor of Marketing, L2 founder and creator of the Digital IQ Index, Innovation Forum 2010 was packed with people, as well as ideas on digital marketing innovation and implications for prestige brands.
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NYU Stern Releases New Book, Regulating Wall Street

NYU Stern School of Business today announced its latest book on the financial crisis, Regulating Wall Street: The Dodd-Frank Act and the New Architecture of Global Finance (Wiley; November 2010), edited by Professors Viral V. Acharya, Thomas F. Cooley, Matthew P. Richardson and Ingo Walter. Regulating Wall Street follows the authors' previous book, Restoring Financial Stability (Wiley, March 2009), which focused on the causes of the financial crisis and offered proposals for market-based solutions while capturing the attention of policymakers in Washington.
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Stern in the News: October 2010

In October, NYU Stern generated nearly 1,000 media hits. Stern faculty were featured for their research and perspectives on a variety of subjects including the currency wars, the outlook for Latin American economies, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and the history of market plunges in a number of prominent outlets such as Bloomberg, the Financial Times and The New York Times. Additionally, in some 34 op-eds, Stern faculty discussed the Dodd-Frank Act, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, the real estate tax, index funds and risk-management strategies for banks.
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What Lessons Can the Sponsored Search Markets Learn from Financial Markets

 According to NYU Stern Professors Vasant Dhar and Anindya Ghose, sponsored search on the Internet is currently mispriced, because it takes time for the market to absorb new information about keywords—whether they have become more or less valuable. Relating the nascent sponsored keyword search market to pre-algorithmic financial markets, the professors offer lessons from finance to capitalize on current market inefficiencies in order to optimize sponsored search portfolios and to determine how to better price keywords.
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NYU Stern and the Aspen Institute Business & Society Program to Host Forum on How to Measure Success

As part of the 2010 Aspen in New York Business & Society Forum, Erik Schatzker, anchor and editor-at-large at Bloomberg, led a discussion about defining and measuring success among three panelists – 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics and Princeton psychologist, Daniel Kahneman; Chairman and CEO of The Vanguard Group Bill McNabb; and the holder of the first endowed chair in Buddhist Studies in the West, Columbia University Professor Robert Thurman – at NYU Stern this October.
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Ernst & Young's Chairman & CEO James Turley Underlines the Importance of Corporate Culture

As part of NYU Stern’s CEO Series, James S. Turley, Chairman & CEO of Ernst & Young, was interviewed in October before more than 100 NYU Stern students and alumni. Diane Brady, senior editor at Bloomberg BusinessWeek, conducted the interview.
Research Center Events

Information, Operations and Management Sciences Department Celebrates 10 Years of Collaboration

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the combined Information, Operation and Management Sciences (IOMS) Department, and current IOMS faculty gathered to celebrate this milestone with an event held October 29 at NYU's Torch Club. Looking back, former professor Ernest Kurnow recounts the roots of what is now the IOMS Department.
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Academics and Industry Experts Gather to Discuss the Merits of Fair Value Accounting

In light of the Financial Accounting Stands Board’s (FASB) proposed expansion of fair value accounting principles for financial institutions, a group of scholars, industry experts, professionals and press convened for a roundtable entitled, “Are Investors and Investment Entities Well-Served by Fair Value Accounting.”
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Salomon Center-NASDAQ OMX DRP Research Day 2010

Stephen Figlewski, Professor of Finance and an expert on derivatives, welcomes the audience to the 2010 Salomon Center NASDAQ OMX Derivatives Research Project (DRP). The DRP Research Day was created in 1996; today the Salomon Center-NASDAQ OMX DRP Research Day enables Stern's finance faculty to present some of their current research.
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Panelists Discuss Derivative and Proprietary Trading Rules at NASDAQ OMX Derivatives Project

Stephen Figlewski, Professor of Finance and Director of the NASDAQ OMX Derivatives Research Project, welcomes an audience of nearly 120 to the 2010 NASDAQ OMX Derivatives Research Project and The Volatility Institute's Symposium on "Derivatives and Proprietary Trading in the New Regulatory Regime."
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Business Leaders Meet to Discuss Cross-Border M&A and Investment in the New East/West World Order

Will the overseas expansion of Chinese and other BRIC companies change the face of capitalism? How should American and European companies increase their footprint in Asia? How should protectionism and sovereign wealth funds be addressed? These are some of the questions that will be posed at the third annual ‘International Symposium on Cross-Border Investment and M&A’ to be held at New York University, hosted by NYU’s Pollack Center for Law and Business on Tuesday, October 19, 2010.
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Coach, Louis Vuitton & Ralph Lauren Top Second Annual Digital IQ Index® for Luxury

In a major shift from last year’s results, fashion brands hold eight of the top 10 slots in the second annual Digital IQ Index® for Luxury. Only two brands, Louis Vuitton and Ralph Lauren, managed to hang on to their ‘Genius’ ranking, with newcomers Coach, Gucci, Hugo Boss, Burberry and Dolce & Gabbana making significant investments in the medium in 2010.

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