Woman Economist With German Wise Men Wins Roubini Bet

Beatrice Weder di Mauro, who made her name by being an expert on debt, can’t collect on one of her own: Nouriel Roubini owes her a bottle of Champagne for a 2012 bet they made about whether Greece would leave the euro. It didn’t, and she won.

“We see one another from time to time,” she said of business professor and author Roubini, a frequent fellow panelist at international conferences. “And then we always say, ‘Champagne!’”