# Professor Richard Sylla's co-authored research on interest rates is mentioned

1 Faculty News June 8, 2016 ![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/low-yields-go-lower-in-europe-1465333371) -- "Yields on undated British government debt fell below 3% at various points in the mid-18th century, according to Sidney Homer and [Richard Sylla](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/alexi-savov)’s magisterial study 'A History of Interest Rates.'"

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