Topics/Studies

Modeling Practices and Their Ability to Assess Tax/Expenditure Economic Impacts

This report reviewed five economic models (IMPLAN, TRAIN/Dynamic TRAIN, STAMP, DRAM, and REMI) to assess their...

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The Waxing and Waning of Regional Economies: The Chicken-Egg Question of Jobs Versus People

This study revisits the long-debated chicken-egg question of whether people follow newly created jobs into regions or...

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Productivity and Accessibility: Bridging Project-Specific and Macroeconomic Analyses of Transportation Investments

When it comes to transportation analysis, there are two primary perspectives typically used in the corresponding...

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Searching for General Equilibrium with a REMI Model: Rural-Urban Effects of Federal Taxes, Entitlements, and Deficits

Glenn L. Nelson DC Technical April 02, 1998

This paper was written with the intention of providing estimates of the regional demographic and economic impacts of...

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The Massachusetts Dynamic Analysis Model

Alan Clayton-Matthews MA Technical September 20, 1993

The Dynamic Analysis Model is the combination of microsimulation and macroeconomic models used to address the critical...

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Conjoining an Input-Output Model and a Policy Analysis Model: A Case Study of the Regional Economic Effects of Expanding a Port Facility

The concept of melding together two separate models to arrange the most complete economic picture possible is analyzed...

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