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