This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $224,000 funds a research project examining the factors influencing exchange rates, with a focus on international asset prices and capital flows. The project explores exchange rates through the lens of general equilibrium models with international capital market frictions, and aims to decompose the drivers of the U.S. dollar exchange rate versus other advanced economies. Key...
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...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $441,000 supports economic research and analysis of capital flows being conducted by the National Bureau of Economic Research from August 2022 through July 2025. Under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075), the awardee will analyze the origins and consequences of international capital allocation using disaggregated data from the Federal Reserve System. Key products include developing new...
This federal Project Grant award for $150,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program funds research projects that aim to understand how countries leverage their international economic relationships to pursue geopolitical and economic objectives. The award supports five interrelated research projects that:
Develop a theoretical framework to model how countries can use their economic relationships to influence foreign...
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...
This Project Grant award of $3,065,935, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, will fund a series of meetings for researchers to present new results in macroeconomics and financial economics focused on issues affecting the financial stability of the United States. The key areas covered include market and financial innovations, securities financing, market microstructure, market connectedness, funding and capital...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $572,000 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 of September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027. The grant supports research to expand the theory and computation of heterogeneous-agent macroeconomic models, enabling new applications such as portfolio choice and optimal policy calculations. The project aims to develop methods for...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $600,000 in funding to the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. (NBER) over a 3-year period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027.
The grant supports research on macroeconomic dynamics, specifically examining: 1) mechanisms underlying wage-price spirals, 2) how economic uncertainty affects household spending and managerial decisions, 3) how...
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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $350,000 will fund research to develop new experimental methods and software for measuring network effects and spillover impacts of interventions in areas such as education, marketing, and tax policy. The research will focus on employing randomization techniques to provide robust, finite-sample valid estimates of network effects, as an alternative to complex statistical...