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The College Station-Bryan Economy Presentation
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2021-08-24)
The presentation includes information on: National real gross domestic product through the second quarter of 2021; ; Real personal consumption expenditures through June 2021; July’s National nonfarm employment; Texas ...
Economic Indicators of the College Station-Bryan MSA, July 2023
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2023-07-20)
The Business-Cycle Index increased 0.5 index points, from 227.6 in April 2023 to 228.1 in May 2023. The local unemployment rate increased slightly, from 3.3% in April 2023 to 3.4% in May 2023. Local nonfarm employment ...
Are Charters the Best Alternative?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-01-01)
Texas has been part of the charter school movement since 1995, when the 74th Texas Legislature authorized the State Board of Education to establish open enrollment (OE) charter schools in the state. According to the Texas ...
Monetary Policy in a Zero or Negative Interest Rate World
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2019-12-20)
The persistence of negative interest rates in the Euro-Zone and Japan coupled with low inflation raises the question of the efficacy of central banking in a negative interest rate world. Given that interest rates have been ...
Fear the Machine?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-07-11)
How do the technological changes caused by increased automation and A.I. affect workers’ wages and jobs? This article summarizes PERC working paper 1801, PERC’s Director Dennis W. Jansen and co-author Michael D. Bradley ...
Moving Up
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-09-01)
America prides itself as a place where people who work hard and don't quit can move up. However, there are concerns growing economic inequality has stymied economic mobility. This issue of PERCspectives on Policy identifies ...
Migration Nation
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-01-01)
Every year thousands of Americans move across county lines. In general, non-migrants experience higher average incomes than their migrant counterparts. This issue of PERCspectives on Policy explores how migrants and ...
Networking the Yield Curve: Implications for Monetary Policy
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2021-05-06)
In this working paper, authors Tatevik Sekhposyan, Tatjana Dahlhaus, and Julia Schaumburg introduce a flexible, time-varying network model to trace the propagation of interest rate surprises across different maturities. ...
Workforce Demand and the Skills Gap in Texas
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-09-06)
Community colleges are an important provider of educational services and play a critical role in meeting the workforce demands of Texas employers. This study focuses on the role of community colleges as occupational skills ...
Coronavirus and the Economy Presentation, Updated 8/27
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-08-27)
This presentation includes information on: · The number of unemployment insurance claims in the U.S. and Texas for the week ending August 22, 2020 and August 15, 2020 for College Station-Bryan · June unemployment rates ...