Wide-ranging benefits can be gained from utilities and manufacturers working together. In fact, a growing number of utilities have increased the competitiveness of their industrial customers by helping local firms assess their operations and purchase more energy-efficient and technologically...

Environmental preservation and economic development are two issues that divide the rural community. Rural areas are often viewed as expressing anti-environmental and pro-growth attitudes; this study calls into question this latter assumption. The findings suggest that environmental and economic...

The use of tax incentives for economic development is growing among states. This growth is partially caused by a response to new incentives of neighboring states, and similar incentive laws are passed in the interest of remaining competitive. As a result, many states have adopted tax incentives...

The effect of public infrastructure on long-run economic performance has been actively debated in the academic literature and public policy circles. A comparison of the divergent results in this literature is difficult because studies use different data, production functions, and statistical...

This article provides a new method for measuring state-sponsored economic development programs. Using confirmatory factor analysis, the authors derive estimates for five supply-side and three demand-side policy packages, consistent with the theoretical framework proposed by Eisinger in The Rise...

Although industry clusters are becoming the focus of state economic development policies, most states continue to define clusters in ad hoc ways, often focusing only on clusters of firms in single industries. Such policies run the risk of wasting development resources by neglecting important...