# Professor Viral Acharya is interviewed about his joint research on banking dividends

1 Faculty News September 16, 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/bank-dividends-are-too-high-bis-paper-says-1474047992) -- "'If you took into account the interests of the collective welfare of all shareholders in the financial system, you’d cut back on dividends,' [Viral Acharya](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/viral-acharya), a finance professor at New York University and one of the study’s authors, said in an interview."

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