Nicolas Legendre, HEC Montréal

Research

small business lending discrimination underrepresented groups Indigenous Peoples credit constraints firm performance discouragement

Latest funding

Indigenous Financing Barriers
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$36,623
Sacrificing stability for the unknown : uncertainty and the entrepreneurial decision
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$37,023

All 2 grants and awards

Indigenous Financing Barriers

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Legendre, Nicolas

Keywords: small business lending; discrimination; underrepresented groups; Indigenous Peoples; credit constraints; firm performance; discouragement

$36,623

Sacrificing stability for the unknown : uncertainty and the entrepreneurial decision

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Sanford, Anthony

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Uncertainty; Startup; Bellman; Decision-making

$37,023

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: small business lending Dear Professor Legendre, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on small business lending connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Indigenous Financing Barriers" (2024), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]