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The College Station-Bryan Economy Presentation, Updated 10/26/2022
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-11-04)
The presentation includes information on: The College Station-Bryan Business-Cycle Index, Business-Cycle, nonfarm employment, taxable sales, and unemployment rates through August 2022; Real total wages through the first ...
Economic Indicators of the College Station-Bryan MSA, July 2022
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-07-21)
The Business-Cycle Index increased 0.2% from April 2022 to May 2022. The local unemployment rate remained unchanged at 3.3% in May 2022. Local nonfarm employment in May decreased by 0.3% from April but was 1.87% higher ...
Nonlinear Evidence on the Existence of Jobless Recoveries
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-07-01)
The sluggish growth in employment following the Great Recession has spurred research into investigating its cause. Economists are split as to whether it reflects the advent of “jobless recoveries� or just reflects ...
Is the Federal Reserve Independent?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-05-09)
The power to coin money and regulate the value thereof is constitutionally delegated to Congress, preventing true Federal Reserve independence. This issue of PERCspectives on Policy, by PERC Director Thomas Saving, discusses ...
Japanese Government Debt: It's Not As Bad As You Might Think
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2019-12-02)
Japan, the third-largest economy in the world by GDP, is also the most heavily indebted of the highly developed countries. Its gross debt of 1,175.84 trillion yen is an eye-popping 213.7% of GDP. In this issue of Data ...
Texas: Leading the Way on Wind Power
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-12-03)
Wind power is a growing source for electricity generation in the United States, and wind power now providing over 6% of our electricity. In Texas wind is responsible for 15% of electricity production, and Texas produces ...
Liqun Liu Interview
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-05-10)
In the Spring 2022 issue of PERCspectives on Research, Research Scientist Liqun Liu shares his educational and career highlights from Texas A&M University and the Private Enterprise Research Center, as well as his ...
How Do Peers Influence BMI?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2017-10-01)
Childhood obesity is a growing public health concern among many industrialized countries. Authors Meer and Lim present a clear view on the effect of social networks on BMI for adolescents from randomly-assigned seventh ...
Power to Choose? An Analysis of Consumer Intertia in the Residential Electricity Market
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-01-01)
Staying the Course or Rolling the Dice: Time Horizon’s Effect on the Propensity to Take Risk
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2019-02-06)
Is the old adage that states that the young take more risk than the old correct? In PERC Working Paper 1902, authors Liqun Liu, Andrew J. Rettenmaier and Thomas R. Saving investigate this conventional wisdom in the context ...