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Sep 15, 2017

Helping Small Businesses Deal with Cyber Threats

Small businesses are especially vulnerable to cyber threats. What can be done to provide small businesses the security to continue to prosper, while enhancing America's cybersecurity workforce and making the economy more secure?
Research

Jun 2, 2017

Improving the Air Force Small-Business Performance Expectations Methodology

This study is an assessment of the Air Force Small-Business Performance Expectations Methodology, with recommendations for improvement.
Research

Jan 10, 2017

(Un)expected Housing Price Changes: Identifying the Drivers of Small Business Finance

In this paper, we use the Kauffman Firm Survey to examine the effect of housing price changes on small business financial variables.
Research

Jul 20, 2015

Reforming Policies for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Indonesia

Investigates constraints small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face and how existing programs do -- or do not -- help reduce these constraints, and includes recommendations on the importance of credit and on the need to remove information barriers.
Research

Sep 25, 2014

Identifying and Eliminating Barriers Faced by Nontraditional Department of Defense Suppliers

The report seeks to identify barriers that companies face when attempting to enter into contracts with the Department of Defense (DoD), especially when they are not traditional DoD suppliers.
Research

Aug 26, 2014

Small Business and Strategic Sourcing: Lessons from Past Research and Current Data

Department of Defense (DoD) goals may conflict as DoD attempts to apply strategic-sourcing practices to reduce total costs and improve performance while maintaining a goal of spending about 23 percent of prime-contract dollars with small businesses.
Research

Feb 4, 2014

Improving Federal and Department of Defense Use of Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Businesses

The report investigates the barriers that service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses may face when attempting to contract with the federal government and the Department of Defense.
Commentary

Dec 2, 2013

Employer-Provided Health Insurance: Why Does It Persist, and Will It Continue after 2014?

As the ACA is implemented, policy makers should be attuned to potential inefficiencies and inequities created by a system with different regulatory and tax rules for small employers, large employers, and individual health plans. Attempts to equalize the playing field may be difficult.
Commentary

Jun 17, 2013

Will Small Firms Self-Insure After Jan. 1, 2014?

Because of the ACA's regulations, some smaller employers with young and healthy workers are considering avoiding the purchase of health care coverage in the regulated market, opting instead to self-insure their employees.
Research

Apr 4, 2013

Three Essays on Entrepreneurship in India and the U.S. Policies, Social Ties and Mobility

Explores the role entrepreneurship plays in the lives of the economically disadvantaged in both India and the United States.
Research

Dec 10, 2012

Assessing the Impact of Requiring Justification and Approval Review for Sole Source 8(a) Native American Contracts in Excess of $20 Million

A new federal requirement for justification and approval of 8(a) contracts over $20 million may delay the awarding of these contracts to eligible participants such as Native Group firms but have little impact on the number of such contracts awarded.
Article

May 4, 2012

Would the Affordable Care Act Lead to Reductions in Employer-Sponsored Coverage?

As the U.S. Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) individual mandate, one of the questions being debated is what effect the mandate would have on employer-sponsored health insurance coverage. A factor to consider in this is the effect the ACA would have on small businesses, which employ the majority of America's private-sector workforce.

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Helping Small Businesses Deal with Cyber Threats

Improving the Air Force Small-Business Performance Expectations Methodology

(Un)expected Housing Price Changes: Identifying the Drivers of Small Business Finance

Reforming Policies for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Indonesia

Identifying and Eliminating Barriers Faced by Nontraditional Department of Defense Suppliers

Small Business and Strategic Sourcing: Lessons from Past Research and Current Data

Improving Federal and Department of Defense Use of Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Businesses

Employer-Provided Health Insurance: Why Does It Persist, and Will It Continue after 2014?

Will Small Firms Self-Insure After Jan. 1, 2014?

Three Essays on Entrepreneurship in India and the U.S. Policies, Social Ties and Mobility

Assessing the Impact of Requiring Justification and Approval Review for Sole Source 8(a) Native American Contracts in Excess of $20 Million

Would the Affordable Care Act Lead to Reductions in Employer-Sponsored Coverage?

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Helping Small Businesses Deal with Cyber Threats

Improving the Air Force Small-Business Performance Expectations Methodology

(Un)expected Housing Price Changes: Identifying the Drivers of Small Business Finance

Reforming Policies for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Indonesia

Identifying and Eliminating Barriers Faced by Nontraditional Department of Defense Suppliers

Small Business and Strategic Sourcing: Lessons from Past Research and Current Data

Improving Federal and Department of Defense Use of Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Businesses

Employer-Provided Health Insurance: Why Does It Persist, and Will It Continue after 2014?

Will Small Firms Self-Insure After Jan. 1, 2014?

Three Essays on Entrepreneurship in India and the U.S. Policies, Social Ties and Mobility

Assessing the Impact of Requiring Justification and Approval Review for Sole Source 8(a) Native American Contracts in Excess of $20 Million

Would the Affordable Care Act Lead to Reductions in Employer-Sponsored Coverage?

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