# Prof. Lawrence White on ratings agencies

1 Faculty News April 1, 2012 ![Global Finance logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_033477.jpg?itok=PxtFpGv3)>

Excerpt from [Global Finance Magazine](http://www.gfmag.com/archives/152-april-2012/11678-cover-story-rating-the-ratings-agencies.html#axzz1sQCbHWLK) -- "Pay for the ratings with advertising. This could be lucrative if ratings agencies were to publish their ratings on a website in real time and the ads were online, notes [Lawrence White](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/lawrence-white), an economics professor at the NYU Stern School of Business."

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