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Cornell Expert Quotes

Cornellians weigh in on current events in the news

"As Trump showed, even negative buzz is good, especially for front runners, because it can suck attention away from challengers (remember during GOP debate when he talked about his ‘hands’)."

Drew Margolin

Assistant Professor

Topic	Name	Date
Economics and Business , Law and Policy	Erica Groshen Visiting Senior Scholar at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations	05/27/20
	"The strength of the rebound will depend partially on the balance between temporary and permanent changes to the economy. All else equal, the more permanent the changes, the more attenuated the recovery." Media: Rachel Rhodes rer252@cornell.edu 202-434-8036 Related Tip Sheet: Drop-off in consumer spending to drive first quarter GDP losses (05/27/20)
Economics and Business , Law and Policy	Andrew Karolyi Professor of Asset Management and Finance	05/27/20
	"One way to gauge whether we need to be braced for an even worse reported contraction is to look at the components of the GDP estimate last month that were most striking. The headline was clearly the 7%+ drop-off in personal consumption expenditures (PCE) on goods and services which represents nearly 70% of the $21.5 trillion." Media: Rachel Rhodes rer252@cornell.edu 202-434-8036 Related Tip Sheet: Drop-off in consumer spending to drive first quarter GDP losses (05/27/20)
International , Arts and Sciences	Allen R. Carlson Associate Professor in Cornell University’s Government Department	05/21/20
	"The underlying emphasis upon securing Hong Kong clearly reveals that for Xi, Hong Kong is no different than Tibet or Xinjiang." Media: Rebecca Valli rv234@cornell.edu 607-255-6035 Related Tip Sheet: China's national security law: For Xi, Hong Kong no different than Tibet, Xinjiang (05/21/20)
Arts and Sciences , Cornell Tech , Computing & Information Sciences	Helen Nissenbaum Professor at Cornell Tech and in the Information Science Department at Cornell University	05/20/20
	Media: Jeff Tyson jeff.tyson@cornell.edu (607) 793-5769 Related Tip Sheet: New Apple iOS supports contact tracing — but is meaningless without government adoption (05/20/20)
Arts and Sciences , Cornell Tech , Computing & Information Sciences	Tanzeem Choudhury Professor of Information Sciences at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech	05/20/20
	Media: Jeff Tyson jeff.tyson@cornell.edu (607) 793-5769 Related Tip Sheet: New Apple iOS supports contact tracing — but is meaningless without government adoption (05/20/20)
Arts and Sciences , Cornell Tech , Computing & Information Sciences	Sarah Kreps Professor of Government	05/20/20
	“The Exposure Notification support will be meaningless until state or regional governments have apps that use the technology Apple and Google developed, but it is an important step in the direction of a tool that will enable policymakers to ease lockdown restrictions." Media: Jeff Tyson jeff.tyson@cornell.edu (607) 793-5769 Related Tip Sheet: New Apple iOS supports contact tracing — but is meaningless without government adoption (05/20/20)
	Jaron Porciello Information scientist and faculty fellow at the David R. Atkinson Center for Sustainable Development	05/12/20
	Media: Media Relations, Media Relations Office mediarelations@cornell.edu (607) 255 - 2059 Related Tip Sheet: Cornell experts on coronavirus - International impact (05/12/20)
	Sarah Davidson Evanega International Professor of Plant Breeding & Genetics	05/12/20
	Media: Media Relations, Media Relations Office mediarelations@cornell.edu (607) 255 - 2059 Related Tip Sheet: Cornell experts on coronavirus - International impact (05/12/20)
	Gen Meredith Associate Director of the Cornell University Master of Public Health Program	05/12/20
	Media: Gillian Smith gillian.smith@cornell.edu 607-254-6235 Related Tip Sheet: Cornell experts on coronavirus - Science and public health (05/12/20)
Law and Policy , Law School	Jens David Ohlin Vice Dean and Professor of Law	05/12/20
	"Sometimes an oral argument gives you a sense of which way the court is leaning. This one didn’t." Media: Rachel Rhodes rer252@cornell.edu 202-434-8036 Related Tip Sheet: In Mazars v. Trump, result will hinge on closed-door conference (05/12/20)

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