November 7, 2018 A Letter to Raleigh After Rejected by Amazon Rejection sucks. But when it comes to attracting the right businesses or industries to your city, there's more to it than swiping right.
November 1, 2018 A Brief History of Input-Output Once Leontief developed input-output analysis, its implications were far-reaching. Discover the history of the I-O analysis technique and its widespread use.
October 15, 2018 Which Southeast States Win When GE Expands? Demand for jet engines is taking off. GE Aviation listed a handful of specific investments it would make in order to meet market demand. Here's a look at…
October 11, 2018 What Happens When the Minimum Wage Changes? Is it reasonable to expect a ripple effect in the U.S. economy when so many workers will have more income to spend in their home economies across the…
October 2, 2018 5 Common Economic Impact Analysis Users & How They Use It Let's take a look at some of our common user types and a high-level example of how each of them applies the power of economic impact analysis in…
September 26, 2018 Out-of-the-Box Methodologies There's more than one way to skin a cat—and that's true of economic impact analysis. Here's a few methodologies which you don't see that often but deliver pretty…
September 12, 2018 Where Do Those Storm Damage Predictions Come From? FEMA’s HAZUS is designed to estimate potential losses from hazards including hurricane winds, earthquakes, and riverine and coastal floods. HAZUS was initially developed for FEMA by the National…
September 12, 2018 North Carolina’s History of Hurricanes When it comes to figuring out what economic effects a storm might have, both meteorological and economic modeling share a cone of uncertainty.
September 12, 2018 Employment Impacts using Our New Occupational Data Our latest release of the Occupational Data Matrices provides information on employment and compensation, which might just make determining wages and allocating scarce resources a less arduous task.
September 7, 2018 How to Get the Media’s Attention for Your Economic Impact Study Here’s our best advice on how to recruit the media’s help in getting all that work done—excerpted from one of our recent white papers, Creating a Compelling Economic…
August 15, 2018 Balancing Fidelity, Transparency, and Expediency in Economic Data Taking a look at data sources, how data sets are integrated into the software, and how some data points are calculated.
August 13, 2018 What is IMPLAN? IMPLAN Cloud is a platform that combines extensive databases, economic factors, multipliers, and demographic statistics with a highly refined modeling system.
