# Prof. Rosa Abrantes-Metz's research on suspected rate fixing is featured

1 Faculty News March 8, 2014>

Excerpt from [The Economist](http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21598676-new-concerns-surround-way-world-gold-price-set-fix-mr-bond) -- "Another bit of bad news for the gold market comes from a forthcoming paper by [Rosa Abrantes-Metz](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/Romy), of New York University’s Stern School of Business, and her husband Albert Metz, a ratings-agency chief (writing in a personal capacity). This identifies a puzzling number of large downward price movements in the run-up to the afternoon 'fix': a conference call, typically ten minutes long, when the banks exchange information and decide on the price. Ms Abrantes-Metz terms the spikes 'too frequent and too large' to be mere chance."

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