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Economic Indicators of the College Station-Bryan MSA, November 2022
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-11-17)
The Business-Cycle Index increased 0.2% from August 2022 to September 2022. The local unemployment rate remained the same at 3.1% in September 2022. September’s local nonfarm employment increased by a slim 0.05% from ...
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 ...
Elderly Entitlements and Wealth Inequality
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-12-21)
By most measures, wealth inequality has risen significantly over the last three decades and is a growing concern. However, standard wealth definitions require that individuals possess a legal claim to assets included as ...
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 ...
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 ...
Portfolio Choice in the Model of Expected Utility with a Safety-First Component
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-10-14)
Whereas the majority of economists interpret risk as dispersion or variation in an outcome variable, many everyday decision makers tend to associate risk with the outcome failing to meet a certain “safety� level. In ...
Coronavirus Economics: The Impact of Shutting Down Meatpacking Plants
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-06-25)
Motivated by the observed beef and livestock market impacts of coronavirus-caused meatpacking plant shutdowns, this paper constructs a theoretical model to study the effects of closures among downstream producers on both ...
Economic Indicators of the College Station-Bryan MSA, February 2020
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-02-24)
The Business-Cycle Index decreased by 0.2% in the month of December 2019. The unemployment rate remained at the same level as the previous month, 2.7% in December 2019. Nonfarm employment decreased 0.2% in the month of ...