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3/11/2020 Dallas Dallas ‐ Fo Fort Wo Worth Fe Federal St Statis istic tical Re Research Da Data Cen Center er (DF (DFW FS FSRDC) https://dfwrdc.org/ Kurt Beron kberon@utdallas.edu Professor of Economics NSF Principal Investigator, DFW FSRDC Chair, DFW FSRDC Consortium Board In just the last year, articles using data within the nationwide RDC network have been published in Management Science, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics , and the American Economic Review, among many other top ‐ tier journals. 1

3/11/2020 Lists recent articles and working papers, with an emphasis on economic and business publications https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2019/research/2018 ‐ ces ‐ annual ‐ report.pdf 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 owners charge for their data; however, both through the RDC and through UTD, we are looking to pick up these costs when possible 2

3/11/2020 • 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 3