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Cluster Analysis of Key Sectors: Boone County and Surrounding Areas
This report illustrates the economic strengths and synergies that exist between the most viable sectors within the geographic
region under study.
Some Preliminary Evaluation of the Cash for Clunkers Program
This study assesses the impact of the Cash for Clunkers program on automobile sales.
A Forecasting Mea Culpa – Maybe?
Michael Hicks addresses the performance of the Indiana Econometric Model in 2009.
The 2009 Holiday Retail Sales Forecast
This report provides a forecast of retail activity in 2009 as the U.S. economy slowly recovers from the recession of 2008-2009.
The Indiana State Fair: 2008 Economic Impact and 2009 Projections
This report examines the economic ripple effect of the Indiana State Fair through the Indianapolis area.
Cultural Tourism in Indiana: The Impact and Clustering of the Arts and Creative Sectors in This Recession
This report documents the economic benefits of cultural tourism in Indiana and the density patterns of the state's tourism-related sectors.
2009 Manufacturing and Logistics Report Card
The 2009 Manufacturing and Logistics Report Card grades states in six areas of the economy that underlie the success of manufacturing and logistics in each state. These include specific measures of manufacturing and logistics health, human capital, the cost of benefits, the global position of the industries, state level productivity and innovation, and the tax climate.
Local Government Reform in Indiana
In response to calls for local government reform, the Kernan-Shepard Commission was instituted, and in December 2007, it issued a report (formally titled Streamlining Local Government). Its recommendations contain broad and far-reaching changes to the administration of local government in Indiana. This study attempts to address the potential impact of consolidation on the costs of local government.
Executive Summary
Full Report
Tourism-Related Commerce in Indiana
This study examines the impact of the innkeeper’s tax and the convention and visitor bureaus’ expenditures on Indiana’s economy.
Executive Summary
Full Report
Financial Crisis
Understanding the Sub-Prime Markets: A Narrative
Minimum Wage and Unemployment
Did the Increase in Minimum Wage Cause Our Unemployment Rate to Rise?
Understanding Regional Poverty
What is Poverty?
Emerging Media: Prevalence and Impact in the Workplace
New Media, Information Technology and Indiana: A Retrospective on the 2000 Battelle Study
Executive Summary
Full Report
State of Manufacturing and Logistics in Indiana
(2008 AUBER Award of Excellence in Electronic Publications)
2008 State of the Industry Report
2008 National Manufacturing and Logistics Report Card
Flood Research
Research providing preliminary damage assessments of recent floods in Indiana and Iowa.
Indiana Tax Reform
General tax policy research and analysis of proposed plans.