Networks Financial Institute (NFI) conducted a survey (parallel to that of the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy national survey) to generate an in-state baseline of information about Indiana high schools seniors and their level of financial management skills and education,...

The Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC) asked Networks Financial Institute (NFI) to craft a project that would assist the IEDC in documenting and quantifying the Hoosier insurance workforce talent pool, so that the IEDC can speak more authoritatively to current and prospective...

One of our principal focuses is on the role of the financial services industry in promoting economic development. There is a large and growing academic literature that shows that a strong financial sector contributes to more rapid economic growth. Nicola Cetorelli, an economist at the Federal...

Networks Financial Institute at Indiana State University, a national leader in addressing both ongoing and emerging issues impacting the insurance sector, provides this descriptive bibliography which addresses the myriad issues driving insurance regulation and reform. This resource provides more...

Regardless of company size or type, soft skills remain a vital component for employers: Insurance companies place soft skills as the most cited overall criteria in their hiring decisions. Banking companies give slightly more mention to soft skills than curriculum in hiring decisions. Securities...

China, a low income country about the same geographic size as the US and with over four times the population, has had persistent rapid growth that averaged 9.6 percent per year since reform began in 1979. On a per capita basis, real GDP is eight times larger than it was 26 years earlier!...

Generations of young people, including the current generation, have endured parental admonitions about how difficult their parents had it when they were young, and how young people just don’t appreciate the value of a dollar or the meaning of a work ethic. But has there actually been a...

The increasing ease with which Americans can access various forms of credit during the last 20 years has created unanticipated consequences for the financial services industry, consumers themselves, and those practitioners who provide financial education services. Bankruptcy reform, possible...

The state of Indiana has had a major foreclosure problem, especially since the 2001 recession. As the nation confronts an emerging surge in foreclosures associated with an explosion of subprime loans in 2004-06, the Indiana foreclosure rate is likely to surge to record territory. Two neighboring...

Networks Financial Institute (NFI) believes that high school students, in order to be ready for a competitive world when they graduate, need to have a deep understanding of personal financial literacy. Skills involved in personal financial literacy include budgeting, saving, investing, filing...