Reports

This week, the Office of Advocacy released the new edition of the annual report, The Small Business Economy.  You can find the entire report on the website, and you can read about in interesting places like Inc.com's Wire, and reproduced…

Advocacy economist Victoria Williams recently reported on the financial data for fourth quarter 2011 that was released this month. The new data shows that borrowing remained challenging for small businesses through fourth quarter 2011, even…

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Advocacy releases its Small Business Quarterly Bulletin for the third quarter of 2011.  The brochure-style publication contains commentary and analysis on the current employment and financing trends of small businesses.  The bulletin shows…

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New from Advocacy this fall is the contract research report, The Growing Impact of Credit Unions on Small Business Lending, by James Wilcox of the University of California–Berkeley. Wilcox’s research finds that credit unions may have…

Entrepreneurs Lead in Green Innovation Small businesses have more patents per employee than large companies. Small businesses are home to innovation, and that is particularly true when it comes to green technologies. A report released…

Advocacy’s Office of Economic Research released the following report in September. Bank Liquidity Pressures and the Availability of Bank Credit to Small Firms: Was the 2007-2009 Credit Crisis Different?, by Joe Peek of the University of…

Advocacy’s Office of Economic Research released the following report in September. The Growing Impact of Credit Unions on Small Business Lending, authored by James Wilcox of the University of California–Berkeley, finds that credit unions…

The number of Hispanic-Owned Businesses grew 88 percent during the 10-year period from 1997 to 2007. Their growth rate was almost 3 times the national level (30 percent) for the period. Detailed information about Hispanic-owned business was…