July 24, 2019 What Value do Community Events Provide? Holidays and local celebrations provide more than just a sense community. There is economic value, too. Learn how to gauge the impact of these events.
June 20, 2019 Audio: An Overview of Industry Contribution Analysis Here's how multiple industries have contribution analysis to model the effects that they support within their economy.
June 11, 2019 Lessons from the New York Apple Association’s Economic Analysis Here's how researchers examined the economic contributions of the apple industry in NY, and set the framework for producing industry contribution analyses.
May 24, 2019 Future-Proofing Opportunity Zone Economic Impact Analyses Earlier this month four senators endorsed a bill which will specify how compliance and success is measured for opportunity-zone-based projects. Here's what you need to know to ensure…
April 30, 2019 Things That Can Go Wrong with Mixed-Use Development Projects Mixed-use development projects are complicated. Here are a few of the common reasons why they so often fail (and how to avoid them so yours can succeed).
April 8, 2019 Where U.S. Economic Data Comes From Economic data flows and collects from sources both varied and unique. But which sources are significant and why?
March 22, 2019 Top 5 EDC Social Media Accounts & Tips If you’re like us, there’s nothing more impactful than seeing the power of social media in action from EDCs themselves. Here are our Top 5 EDC social media…
March 21, 2019 Translating Real-World Survey Results into an Economic Impact Analysis We enjoy free access to some of the most rich data ever available from outlets as varied as labor statistics to migration patterns of butterflies. But translating that…
March 5, 2019 Why Sector and Commodity Selection Matters in Economic Modeling Here’s a look at several scenarios involving margins, what sort of impact they describe, and the different results possible from a similar impact when applied to a variety…
February 22, 2019 Economics of E-Scooters (Part 2): E-Scooter vs. TriMet Net Analysis When e-scooters’ ridership goes up, alternative ridership must go down (right?). Here’s a very rudimentary net economic impact analysis to illustrate how one might go about estimating the…
February 15, 2019 Economics of E-scooters (Part 1) Using rider surveys and leveraging data-sharing requirements of the scooter companies, cities across the country began painting a picture of how well scooters might do in the United…
December 26, 2018 Satellite Accounts: Not All Impacts are Economic This type of thing is commonly done to estimate social impacts from things like education, health, land and water usage, child labor, environmental impacts, and more.
