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.
August 9, 2018 2017 CEW Data Now Available! IMPLAN’s economists have completed our newest Census of Employment and Wages (CEW) data set which is now available for purchase. Here's what's included and why we think it's…
August 6, 2018 Making Sense of Tax and Tariff Impact Analysis Taxes and tariffs have resurfaced in the last few months and are at the forefront of the nation’s attention. Here's our best advice on framing economic impact analyses…
July 27, 2018 How to show your IMPLAN results in Google Maps People love looking at maps. It’s just one of those facts of life. So since economic analyses are always tied to a geography of one form or another,…
July 19, 2018 Examining the Importance of Storytelling in Analyzing Economic Impacts While storytelling clearly has effective applications in various fields, can it also be successful when applied to interpreting economic impact studies?
June 21, 2018 Decoding Economic Impact Analyses in the News If 73.6% of statistics are made up, then you're justified in not trusting everything you read. But when it comes to economic impacts, there are a few ways…
June 14, 2018 Is Your World Cup Half Full or Half Empty? Should your country be the next host of the World Cup? There are a few things to think about before you shoot for the goal.
June 6, 2018 Interpreting Employment Impacts You can look at the unique job taxonomy of a region while still appreciating the big picture. Consider these details when interpreting employment impacts.
June 1, 2018 Here Comes the Sun: The Recent Impacts of Shifting US Energy Production When it comes to making the switch to solar or other renewable energy sources, the United States might be torn between two lovers. But don’t give up on…
May 25, 2018 Validating Updates to IMPLAN’s Gravity Model With recent updates to IMPLAN gravity model for estimating intra- and inter-county flows of goods and services, there now exists greater accuracy when estimating region-specific foreign trade rates.
