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December 5, 2018

New IMPLAN Data Year Now Available (Plus Release Notes)!

IMPLAN’s economists have completed our newest IMPLAN Data Year which is now available for purchase. Here's what's included and why we think it's pretty awesome.

November 19, 2018

Economic Impact Modeling Just Got a Whole Lot Smarter

The latest advancement in technology and methodology is going to propel economic impact modeling into the future.

November 12, 2018

Amazon HQ2: When the Losers are Winners

Just because a big business doesn't move to your city doesn't necessarily mean that your local economy won't feel an impact.

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.