# Professor Aswath Damodaran's research on growth in financial markets is featured

1 Faculty News January 25, 2017 ![Wall Street Journal logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/wsjlogo.jpg?itok=5Qt0z3WX)>

Excerpt from [The Wall Street Journal](http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fragile-economic-foundation-of-dow-20000-1485377625) -- "In November, investors were expecting to earn 6.3 percentage points more by owning risky stocks instead of safe bonds, according to [Aswath Damodaran](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aswath-damodaran), a finance professor at New York University. By Wednesday that premium had shrunk to 5.7 percentage points."

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