Community Development

A wealth of new resources related to small business is now available through three sources on the Atlanta Fed's website.

The first offering is an online Small Business Resources page that provides links to a variety of lending, technical assistance, and planning resources related to small business development and job creation throughout the Southeast. Individuals and businesses can use this page to identify available economic development resources and potential partners.

Second, papers and presentations from the Small Business, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Recovery: A Focus on Job Creation and Economic Stabilization* conference held October 26–27, 2010, in Atlanta are now available.

Presentations at the conference included:

• Implications of Demand for and Access to Financial Capital by Young Firms in the Current Economic Crisis
  Sheryl Winston Smith, Fox School of Business, Temple University and Alicia Robb, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
  Paper Presentation

• Credit Cards, Race, and Entrepreneurship
  Robert Seamans, NYU Stern School of Business
  Paper Presentation

• Who Creates Jobs? Small vs. Large vs. Young
  Javier Miranda, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau
  Paper Presentation

And third, three of the presenters at the conference recorded interviews on small business topics:

• Healthy Businesses, Healthy Communities: Identifying and Responding to Local Small Business Challenges
  Dr. Lisa Servon, professor with Milano the New School for Management and Urban Policy

• Fact or Fallacy: Can Self-Employment Improve Economic Opportunities for Low-Skilled Workers?
  Dr. Magnus Lofstrom, research fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California

• Bridging the Gap: Overcoming Minority Small Business Performance Disparities
  Dr. Robert Fairlie, professor in applied economics and finance with the University of California, Santa Cruz

Visit www.frbatlanta.org/podcasts to listen to a podcast, download a transcript, and sign up for the RSS feed to keep up with new economic development podcasts as they are posted, usually twice a month.

*Cosponsored by:
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Center for Human Capital Studies (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)