Alternative title: On the other hand, I probably created 1.8 job-days doing this
I was asked to find our analyses of economic-impact modeling software and the reports they generate, and in tracking them down I realized some had fallen victim to broken links through the conversion of our web site. So I’m using a blog post to store them here for future reference (and update when necessary).
Of course, you can enjoy them right now, too.
Reports
- Roy Cordato, Economic Impact Studies — John Locke Foundation Policy Position, 2018
- Roy Cordato, Economic Impact Studies: The Missing Ingredient Is Economics — Spotlight No. 489, March 30, 2017 (see an excerpt here)
Research Briefs and other writings
- Jon Sanders, Another reason why the economic impact from Georgia’s film incentives is still overstated — blog post, January 16, 2020
- Jon Sanders, Corporate Welfare Creates Headlines, Not Jobs as Promised — Research Brief, January 8, 2020
- Roy Cordato, Economic Impact Studies and the “Manna from Heaven” Argument — Research Brief, July 24, 2019
- Joseph Coletti, Corporate Welfare: Should We Blame Governments or Businesses? — Research Brief, July 16, 2019
- Roy Cordato, Medicaid expansion and job creation: Bad economics, good special interest politics — Carolina Journal, July 12, 2019
- Roy Cordato, Whatever Answer You Want, REMI Can Give it to You — Research Brief, April 24, 2019
- Jon Sanders, Just Keep Compoundin’: Questioning the Economic Impact of a New Carolina Panthers headquarters in S.C. — Research Brief, April 23, 2019
- Jon Sanders, Hollywood Uses Film Incentive Fiction to Dictate Public Policy — Research Brief, April 16, 2019
- Roy Cordato, Fun with Numbers: UNC-Asheville’s Economic Impact Study Is Marketing, Not Fact — James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, March 5, 2018
- Jon Sanders, It’s not ‘job creation’ to kill jobs in one state industry to move them to another state industry — blog post, July 20, 2016
- Jon Sanders, Apply some good horse sense to ‘economic impact’ studies — Research Brief, February 25, 2016
- Roy Cordato, Renewable energy pressure group admits that models measure costs, not economic growth — Research Brief, March 3, 2016
- Roy Cordato, Another not-an-economic-impact study. This time it’s government spending on transportation — Research Brief, February 12, 2015
- Jon Sanders, Hey, Raleigh: What can IMPLAN do for you? — Research Brief, July 8, 2014
- Jon Sanders, Questionable studies’ implication: NC cost itself over a billion dollars by spending on the wrong cronies — blog post, April 1, 2014
- Roy Cordato, Another Day, Another Phony Economic Impact Study — Research Brief, November 21, 2013
- Jon Sanders, People, businesses like to get and spend free money, which is a revelation or something — Carolina Journal, November 6, 2013
- Jon Sanders, Major job-creator moves to Davidson — blog post July 30, 2013
- Jon Sanders, Iron Man? No, the Real Here Is the Super Multiplier — Carolina Journal, May 14, 2013
