# Professor Viral Acharya's comments from the IMF conference are highlighted

1 Faculty News June 11, 2015 ![Bloomberg View logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/bloombergview_0.jpg?itok=47DlvcFA)>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg View](http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-06-11/finance-s-place-in-economy-stumps-the-greatest-minds) -- "[Viral Acharya](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/viral-acharya), a finance professor at New York University, argued at the IMF conference that policy makers have made a lot of progress in quantifying systemic risk (which was at the heart of the 2008 collapse)..."

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