Changing Financial Markets and Community Development

A Federal Reserve System Community Affairs Research Conference

Proceedings of a Conference
Held in Washington, D.C.
April 5-6, 2001

Editors
Jackson L. Blanton
Vice President and Community Affairs Officer
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Alicia Williams
Vice President and Community Affairs Officer
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Sherrie L. W. Rhine
Economist, Consumer Issues Research
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Acknowledgements (PDF,48KB)
Contents (PDF,86KB)
Preface (PDF,46KB)
Session 1
Session 2
Session 3
Session 4
Session 5
Conference Book (PDF,1937KB)

Session Three: Wealth Creation
Asset Accumulation in Low-Resource Households: Evidence from Individual Development Accounts (PDF,86KB)
Mark Schreiner, Michael Sherraden, Margaret Clancy, Lissa Johnson, Jami Curley, Min Zhan, and Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Gorge Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis
Sondra Beverly, School of Social Welfare, University of Kansas

Financing the Development of Urban Minority Communities: Lessons of History (PDF,44KB)
Timothy Bates, College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs, Wayne State University

Social Capital and the Cost of Business Loan Contracting (PDF,106KB)
Brian Uzzi and Ryon Lancaster, Kellogg Graduate School of Management & Department of Social Work, Northwestern University

Discussion Comments
Wealth Creation (PDF,19KB)
Peter Chinloy, Kogod School of Business, American University