This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $253,449 to The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) to conduct a multi-faceted analysis of small business lending dynamics. The project establishes two key research infrastructures: (1) the Small Business Lender Preference and Perception (SBLPP) database, which consolidates survey data from nearly 9,300 U.S. community banks and credit unions...
The National Science Foundation awarded $163,359 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) to The Reed Institute to conduct research analyzing how differences in lending organizations and banking market ecologies impact access to credit for small businesses in poor and traditionally marginalized communities. Specifically, the project will combine interviews of lenders and borrowers involved in the Paycheck Protection Program with quantitative...
This $300,704 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program aims to study how collectives of socially and economically disadvantaged (SED) individuals are creating entrepreneurial opportunities and building more inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystems. The project will involve an interdisciplinary research collaboration between two minority-serving institutions to explore how marginalized communities are...
This Project Grant award of $299,139, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, will fund research to evaluate the impact of accelerated government R&D funding for small technology businesses. The primary awardee, Georgia Tech Research Corporation, will use the funding to examine the effects of timing between SBIR/STTR grant rounds, including the impact of long waits between funding tranches. The research aims to...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $180,706 to the Research Foundation for the State University of New York (SUNY Oswego) to conduct research on the role of political fragmentation and competition in long-term market development. The goal is to understand how factors like political shifts, development of common symbols, and new exchange networks impact the commercialization of everyday items...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) EAGER: PBI project grant award to the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. (NBER) totaling $299,316 provides funding to develop an innovative methodology for comprehensively assessing regional innovation ecosystems. The project aims to integrate industry-specific metrics and a diverse array of outcome indicators to measure the impact of regional entrepreneurial activities on economic growth and societal welfare. This approach builds on the foundational...
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...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award in the amount of $274,541 to Salus Financial Technology Inc., a minority-owned for-profit business, aims to develop a digital underwriting platform for small dollar loans to serve traditionally underserved borrowers. The platform will use innovative techniques to more effectively assess credit risk and facilitate equitable lending decisions for borrowers who lack access to...
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...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,888 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. (NBER) for the period from October 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024. The project, titled "Collaborative Research: Intermediaries and Product Selection in the Municipal Bond Market," will quantify the effects of bond provisions on market liquidity, intermediary competition, and the cost of local government...