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Fear the Machine?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-03-30)
Advanced automation and artificial intelligence, or ‘robot’ technology use, continues to expand across many industries. Recent decreasing labor market movements fuels the question: How do these technologies affect ...
College Towns: Handle Data With Care
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2019-11-18)
Although the term ‘college town’ may invoke idyllic images from our past, government statistics paint a different picture. College towns often appear as poverty – ridden, with unaffordable housing and low incomes. ...
Cadillacs for All
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2019-09-25)
Healthcare reform in the form of Medicare for All, which promises to reduce health care spending by reimbursing providers at Medicare’s rates per procedure, is now receiving renewed interest. This, along with the delay ...
Great (Inflation) Expectations
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2021-04-28)
As states have begun to ease pandemic-related restrictions, we enter a new economic period that has the potential for rapid economic growth, but also a period of rising inflation. In this edition of PERCspectives on Policy, ...
Market Risk and Retirement Plans
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-01-13)
At retirement, the goal of most workers is to be able to pay their anticipated living expenses using their employer-sponsored retirement plan, savings, and Social Security. Today, most workers’ employer-sponsored retirement ...
Methodology for Constructing an Economic Index for the College Station-Bryan Metropolitan Statistical Area
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-10-21)
This paper describes the need for timely GDP information, methodology, and data sources used to create the monthly publication, Economic Indicators.
Economic Indicators of the College Station-Bryan MSA, July 2020
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-07-16)
Initial unemployment claims over the last 17 weeks topped 50 million nationally. The number of claims per week have declined since the week ending on March 14. Over the same time period, 2.8 million workers in Texas filed ...
Inter-Jurisdiction Migration and the Fiscal Policies of Local Governments
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2019-02-04)
In this paper, authors Darong Dai, Dennis W. Jansen and Liqun Liu analyze the effects of migration on the fiscal policies of local governments. Because of the possibility of migrating to another jurisdiction later in life, ...
Economic Indicators of the College Station-Bryan MSA, September 2022
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-09-15)
The Business-Cycle Index increased 1.1% from June 2022 to July 2022. The local unemployment rate declined to 3.1% in July 2022. July’s local nonfarm employment increased by 0.3% from June and was 3.4% higher than its ...
The Time Varying Effect of Monetary Policy Surprise on Stock Returns: Bursting Bubble Beating Forward Guidance
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-07-09)
The authors study the time varying effects of monetary policy on the stock returns in order to capture changes in the effectiveness of monetary policy over time. They find that a one percentage point surprise federal funds ...