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Dallas Dallas‐Fo Fort Wo Worth Fe Federal St Statis istic tical Re Research Da Data Cen Center er (DF (DFW FS FSRDC)

Kurt Beron kberon@utdallas.edu Professor of Economics NSF Principal Investigator, DFW FSRDC Chair, DFW FSRDC Consortium Board

https://dfwrdc.org/

In just the last year, articles using data within the nationwide RDC network have been published in Management Science, Journal of Finance, Journal

• f Financial Economics, and

the American Economic Review, among many other top‐tier journals.

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https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2019/research/2018‐ces‐annual‐report.pdf

Lists recent articles and working papers, with an emphasis on economic and business publications

RDC and UTD

• UTD is part of the DFW RDC Consortium and pay to help support it
• What this means to you, as a researcher at the RDC, is that the financial

cost of using the RDC is heavily offset and, in many cases, is free

• A researcher not part of the Consortium or RDC network that wants to

work in our RDC at the Dallas Fed Dallas will pay up to $20,000 a year

• This is free to UTD associated faculty and graduate students with

approved projects – this can be included as the value of University‐ supported in‐kind support in grant applications

• This does not necessarily mean there are no financial costs, as some data
• wners charge for their data; however, both through the RDC and through

UTD, we are looking to pick up these costs when possible

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• The UTD Office of Research has

set up a separate seed grant program to help encourage RDC use

• Awards up to $10,000 to help

researchers prepare a fundable project will be made to UTD tenured/tenure‐track faculty or center directors

• The initial Proposal Deadline is

April 15, 2020

https://research.utdallas.edu/researchers/internal‐funding/dfw‐rdc