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Kristen Fanarakis
Kristen Fanarakis is an associate director of MI Finance, leading the small business policy and i
nnovation initiative, which analyzes the macroeconomic trends and policies affecting small businesses and offers policy recommendations and solutions aimed
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Creating a Nonprofit Marketplace for Shelved Drugs: Lessons from a Pilot Project
Many promising medicines, despite strong safety data and pharmaceutical characteristics, are discon
tinued by drug companies for nonscientific reasons, including strategic, organizational, and financial considerations.
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SMEs and Public Equity Financing: A New Dataset of SME Boards in Emerging-Market and Developing Economies
In recent years, a number of stock exchanges in emerging-market and developing economies have estab
lished dedicated market segments for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
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PLUM Phase II Summary: Lessons Learned for Advancing Minority Small Business Capital Access
The Milken Institute and U.S.
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Hedging Pipeline Risk in Pharma: FDA Swaps and Annuities
The cost of capital to conduct medical R&D is high because investors must be compensated with s
ignificant returns to offset the risky and long drug-development process.
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Best Practices for Technical Assistance Programs Serving Black and Hispanic Entrepreneurs and Small-Business Owners
In conjunction with the Partnership for Lending in Underserved Markets (PLUM), a Milken Institute a
nd U.S.
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Can Stock Exchanges Support the Growth of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises? Lessons from India, South Africa, and Jamaica
Despite their importance in creating private-sector jobs and diversifying economies, small to mediu
m-sized enterprises (SMEs) often struggle to access adequate finance.
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Effective Government and Economic Expansion: How California Is Improving Permitting and Communication to Spur Business
As California recovers from the Great Recession, it faces an uphill battle against the perception t
hat it is an anti-business state.
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It Takes All Kinds: A Diverse Mix of Lenders Promotes Broad Access to Small Business Credit
Who lends to small businesses, and how is this changing over time? This paper challenges popular an
swers to this question. First, despite the growing role of non-banks, banks continue to be the most important source of credit for small businesses.
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Minority-Owned Depository Institutions: A Market Overview
The Milken Institute and the US Small Business Administration formed an initiative to develop actio
nable solutions to the challenges limiting minority-owned small businesses’ access to capital.
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Nonprofits: A Growing Force in Drug Development
Shepherding a drug from discovery to the market is a complex process that involves many actors.
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Patient-Focused Drug Development Meetings: Smart Practices from Community Leaders
FasterCures, a center of the Milken Institute, designed this guide for patient advocacy organizatio
ns that are interested in hosting, or are currently planning, an externally led patient-focused drug development (PFDD)
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