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...
This $285,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) will fund research to develop new statistical methods to guide economic and public policy decisions in rapidly changing environments. The research aims to build on recent advances in statistical decision theory, causal inference, and machine learning to create econometric models that can effectively inform evidence-based policymaking while...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $221,000 project grant to the University of Chicago under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The three-year grant will support collaborative research examining heterogeneity, risk premia, and macroeconomic fluctuations. The funding will enable researchers to investigate how differences across economic agents impact asset prices and aggregate outcomes. Relevant contextual details include the program's goal of...
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 $138,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund research on heterogeneous agent modeling of the personal data economy. With a performance period from August 2021 through July 2023, this award will support the development of models to analyze how individual behaviors and interactions shape markets involving the exchange of personal data. As part of its mission to advance the social and economic sciences, the NSF SBE...
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 Bureau of Economic Research Inc. received a $195,660 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). Through this award, the National Bureau of Economic Research will develop panel data methods to estimate the effects of price and tax rate changes on economic outcomes and welfare. Specifically, the organization will use big data techniques to...
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...
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...
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...