The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science has awarded a $217,000 Project Grant to the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. (NBER), a non-profit research organization, to conduct three research projects evaluating macroeconomic stabilization policy. The first project provides guidance to empirical macroeconomists on estimating the causal effects of policy interventions. The second project develops methods to predict how the U.S. economy would evolve...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $600,000 in funding to the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. (NBER) for research in macroeconomics. The project combines a large-scale consumer survey with information treatments and external data to investigate four key research questions: 1) the mechanisms underlying wage-price spirals, 2) how economic uncertainty affects household spending...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $414,909 Project Grant under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. The grant, which runs from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, will fund research to develop a systematic framework for analyzing the efficiency and resilience of supply chain networks. The project aims to elucidate the mechanisms by which supply chain disruptions can lead to price volatility and fragility, leveraging...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $375,000 project grant to the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. (NBER) from March 2021 through February 2024 to support research titled "Collaborative Research: The Macroeconomy, Labor Markets, and Economic Mobility from the Civil War to Today: New High Frequency Data on Local Economic Shocks." The research will be conducted under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to promote basic research...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,559,043 Project Grant to the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. (NBER) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund a series of meetings where researchers will present new results in macroeconomics and financial economics focused on issues affecting the financial stability of the United States. Key areas of focus include market and financial innovations, securities financing, collateral...
This EAGER (Early-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research) award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to enhance the resilience of the national supply chain network. The $299,999 grant, awarded on July 1, 2025, will fund the development of forward-looking risk assessment and mitigation tools. These tools will improve preparedness for supply chain disruptions by identifying threats to reliability in the national supply chain and informing strategies for...
The National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. will provide $321,762 in research services under a three-year Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). Through this funding, the awardee will conduct a study of the US mortgage industry supply chain to quantify the relative impacts of information asymmetries and market power on intermediation costs. Services will include assembling a novel dataset tracing loan...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $473,000 project grant to the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. (NBER) from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). NBER will use this funding to research how large-scale economic development programs or "big pushes" can distort markets and impact long-term growth. The grant supports NBER's work analyzing distortions caused by subsidies and other interventions, and how...
This Project Grant award for $3,065,935 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in Cambridge, MA. The award will fund a series of research meetings and conferences focused on issues affecting the financial stability of the United States, with a specific emphasis on market frictions, financial risks, and economic dynamics. Key areas of research include...
This $416,000 Project Grant was awarded on June 1, 2025 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The award supports research by the University of Maryland, College Park to understand the economics of supply chains where complementary suppliers may have market power, with a focus on the U.S. coal supply chain over the last 30 years. The research effort includes three related projects: 1) using econometric techniques to...