The National Science Foundation awarded a $282,055 Project Grant to the University of Chicago under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The three-year award will support the development of a new macro-finance model integrating a standard New Keynesian model of monetary policy with a model of risk discounts in financial markets based on habit formation preferences. The computational platform created under this award will allow researchers to analyze the...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $243,500 Project Grant to Princeton University under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund collaborative research on heterogeneity, risk premia, and macroeconomic fluctuations from July 2021 through June 2024. The research aims to contribute to understanding how differences across economic agents impact asset prices and aggregate outcomes. As the awardee, Princeton University will oversee the research...
The University of Chicago received a $150,001 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science on August 1, 2021, with a completion date of July 31, 2023. The grant is part of NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to support basic research and education in these fields as well as monitor science resources. Under the grant, the University will conduct research on efficient matching, continuous voting,...
This $309,960 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund a research project at the University of Chicago to improve the methodology for testing coefficients in linear regressions. The project will develop new test methods that are robust to assumptions about error term distributions and sample size, allowing for more precise coefficient estimates. This research aims to enhance decision-making,...
This NSF Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $572,000 to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) will fund research to develop advanced computational methods for solving heterogeneous-agent macroeconomic models. The research will focus on expanding the capabilities of sequence-space methods to enable the analysis of models with diverse types of heterogeneity, such as location choice and firm-level differences. Key deliverables include new...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $350,000 is funding a research project at the University of Chicago to investigate the role of networks in influencing the outcomes of interventions across various domains, such as education, marketing, and tax decisions. The project will focus on developing new randomized experimental methods and open-source software to enable robust inference of network effects and quantify...
The University of California Irvine received a $115,999 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant supports collaborative research titled "The Macroeconomy, Labor Markets, and Economic Mobility from the Civil War to Today: New High Frequency Data on Local Economic Shocks" from March 1, 2021 through February 29, 2024. The research will contribute new high frequency data on local economic shocks to...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $175,291 project grant to Columbia University on July 15, 2021 to study "INEQUALITY AND WELFARE IN A LOW RATE ENVIRONMENT." The grant completion date is June 30, 2024. The funding supports research under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to strengthen basic research and education in these fields and monitor science investment resources. Specifically,...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $110,500 Project Grant to the National Bureau Of Economic Research Inc. doing business as Nber for collaborative research on the effects of information, mentoring and time on economic faculty at MSIS. The two-year award running from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2023 will fund research under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). This program supports basic research and education...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $212,975 to the University of Chicago to conduct research examining the drivers of exchange rates through international asset prices and capital flows. The research project aims to gain deeper insights into exchange rates and their relationship with international asset prices, capital flows, and other macroeconomic factors. The project explores general...