What's in the Works?

Filene Research Projects in Progress

Filene Research Institute will publish these projects sometime in the future. If you are interested in learning more about any of these projects, feel free to contact us.

Credit Union Strategy

• An Examination of Credit Union Operational Efficiency
  
• Attributes/Skills of Highly Effective CU Managers
  
• CEO Behaviors and Org. Performance
  
• Challenges to the Cooperative Model: A Canadian Colloquium
  
• Credit Union Maturity and Governance Forms
  
• Developing Member-friendly Fee Income
  
• High Performing Credit Unions During the Recession
  
• How Cooperative Structure Impacts Organizational Decision-Making
  
• Key Motivators of the Next Generation Workforce
  
• Mortgage Market Trends and Growth: Implications for Credit Unions
  
• Social Media Best Practices and Lessons Learned among Credit Union
  
• Supporting Credit Unions in Intelligent Merger Design
  
• Re-thinking the 30 Year Mortgage
  
• Understanding the factors driving share of deposits with credit union members
  

Consumer Behavior

• Credit Unions’ Place in the Car Shopping Experience
  
• Ethnographic Research for Targeted Credit Union Challenges
  
• Future of the Branch Colloquium 
  
• Gamification within the Credit Union System
  
• Shared surpluses and the new co-operative paradigm in credit unions
  
• Testing the Impact of a Financial Health Check on Consumer Behavior

Public Policy

• Commercial Lending During the Crisis: Credit Unions vs. Banks
  
• Credit Unions and Financial Capability Colloquium
  
• Determinants of Attitudes Toward Strategic Default on Mortgages
  
• Dynamic Considerations in Supplemental CU Capital Research
  
• Investor Education in the Workplace