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Business Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic, Bryan-College Station Survey Results
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-07-15)
This survey includes responses from businesses in the Bryan-College Station area on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on operations, employment, and financial situations. The survey, created by staff at the Private ...
Corrupt Police
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-08-21)
PERC Professor Danila Serra, along with Klaus Abbink and Dmitry Ryvkin employ laboratory experiments to examine the effects of corrupt law enforcement on crime within a society. The authors embed corruption in a social ...
Interview with Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2021-12-02)
On September 23, 2021, Dr. Robert Lawson and Dr. Benjamin Powell visited the Private Enterprise Research Center and that evening, they gave a presentation titled, “Socialism versus Freedom� based on their book titled, ...
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 ...
Comparative Risk Apportionment
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2021-01-04)
A decision maker who would rather apportion an independent risk in a state with a good lottery than in a state with a bad lottery is said to have a preference for risk apportionment (Eeckhoudt & Schlesinger, 2006). In this ...
Business Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic, Bryan-College Station Follow-up Survey Results
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-12-11)
This follow-up survey is the second of two surveys that includes responses from businesses in the Bryan-College Station area on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on operations and supply chain, workforce, and finance. ...
Dropouts Need Not Apply? The Minimum Wage and Skill Upgrading
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2021-09-21)
In the United States, politicians and the public alike have again sounded the call to raise the federal minimum wage, citing unlivable earnings and high consumer prices due to rising inflation, but would an increase actually ...
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 ...
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 ...