# Professor Robert Engle's comments on the global state of geopolitical risk are featured

1 Faculty News November 6, 2019 ![Risk.net logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/risknet192x144.jpg?itok=EfWPnsZw)>

Excerpt from [Risk.net](https://www.risk.net/risk-management/7145451/engle-rise-in-geopolitical-risks-may-be-overestimated) -- "From tariff spats to terrorist threats, geopolitical risk is a persistent driver of securities prices and financial markets. But according to [Robert Engle](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/robert-engle) – the NYU Stern economist who won the Nobel prize for his work on measuring volatility – market-watchers may be overestimating the impact of global tensions."

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