# Supporting Small Business

##  Featured Research: Supporting Small Business

**Professor Viral Acharya and co-author:** Targeting Paycheck Protection Program to those Most in Need
[Read More](https://www.marketwatch.com/story/3-ways-to-ensure-sba-aid-for-small-businesses-helps-those-who-need-it-most-2020-04-03) and [Download the PDF](http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~sternfin/vacharya/public_html/pdfs/PPP_Comments_Acharya_Gopal_032920_FINAL.pdf)

**Professor Viral Acharya:** A Simple Proposal to Support Indebted Small Businesses (SMEs) During Covid-19
[Download the PDF](http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~sternfin/vacharya/public_html/pdfs/SME_Proposal.pdf)

**Postdoctoral Fellow Rachel Marie Brooks Atkins and Professor Robert Seamans:** Discrimination in Access to Credit During the Covid-19 Pandemic
[Download the PDF](http://people.stern.nyu.edu/mo71/syllabi/Atkins_Seamans_brief_06Aug2020.pdf?_ga=2.264266255.1049699795.1596719825-252442471.1546878423)