March 1, 2016Seven Federal Reserve Banks released Small Business Credit Survey: Report on Employer Firms. The three main findings: financing success improved in…- January 1, 2016The DBO on Dec. 11, 2015, launched an inquiry into the so-called online, or alternative, lending sector. The inquiry’s objective…
- March 2, 2015Joyce Klein of Aspen Institute’s FIELD program writes how impact investments can be used to scale microlending. The essay appears in…
January 26, 2015Since 2010, the Federal Reserve has been monitoring small business credit conditions through regional surveys of business owners. In 2014,…
December 17, 2014The Bottom Line: Investing for Impact on Economic Mobility in the U.S. draws on the lessons from market-based approaches to…
December 23, 2013The California Reinvestment Coalition’s (CRC) 2010 economic development report documented a dramatic two-thirds plunge in critical bank lending to California…- September 1, 2013The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland sponsored an online survey of small businesses, which was conducted from July 1 through…
August 28, 2013Cesare Fracassi and Shimon Kogan, UT Austin; Mark Garmaise, UCLA Anderson; Gabriel Natividad, NYU Stern A team of researchers digs…
November 1, 2012How did the financial crisis that began in 2008 affect credit markets in the U.S.? Anecdotal evidence suggested that small…
September 4, 2012Robert Jay Dilger and Sean Lowry of the Congressional Research Service examine the current state of SBA veteran loan programs,…
