The Fund for Our Economic Future (The Fund) is a multiyear collaborative effort "to encourage and advance a common and highly focused regional economic development agenda..."
Wagner’s hypothesis of an expanding public sector as an economy develops is tested using pooled time-series cross-sectional data for U.S. states from 1964 to 1986.
A methodology is developed for constructing quality-of-life comparisons for metropolitan areas in which the full bundle of an area’s attributes is valued, rather than the typical method of focusing on individual characteristics.
A discussion of whether public outlays influence private investment, modeling the timing and effectiveness of public infrastructure as a local policy instrument.
A demonstration that unionization can affect cost of production through increases in compensation, through shifts in technologies, and through deviations from the least-cost combination of inputs (the factor-use effect).
An estimation of components of public capital stock for 38 metropolitan areas from 1953 to 1981, using the perpetual inventory method. These series are used to estimate the effect of public capital stock on regional manufacturing production.
Until the National Bureau of Economic Research (the official arbiter of business cycles) decrees it, we cannot be certain that history will record the current economic downturn as a recession.
Vital to a region’s long-run economic growth is the ability of its manufacturing sector to improve product quality and to introduce more technologically advanced products.
Although the current business expansion has spawned a resurgence in Ohio manufacturing, fewer factory jobs are being created than in previous growth periods.
Labor costs are often cited as the primary hindrance to economic development in cities where wages are high and as a spur to development in cities where wages are low. The relationship between labor costs and growth is complex, however.