# Professor Robert Whitelaw discusses the global impact of China's financial markets

1 Faculty News July 27, 2015 ![Marketplace Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/marketplace_logo.jpg?itok=IIav3Udj)>

Excerpt from [Marketplace](http://www.marketplace.org/topics/world/if-china-sneezes-does-us-catch-cold) -- "'China is attempting to move from an investment-driven to a consumer-driven economy,' says [Robert Whitelaw](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/robert-whitelaw), professor of finance at NYU's Stern School of Business. 'And it’s not easy to do, because it has been investment-driven for so long.'"

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