The phenomenal growth of Florida's service sector over the past three decades can be largely attributed to the impacts of elderly in-migration and flourishing recreational and tourist industries. The demands of seasonal migrants, a soaring population, and an increasing share of elderly provided...

Communities depending solely on recruiting manufacturing industries for economic growth and development might be missing opportunities to better succeed with their efforts. Also, with all of the competition among communities for the relocation of these plants, the odds of success for many...

This study assesses the relationship between selected public lender practices, real estate net equity, and industrial mortgage loan default. Seven lending practices and three advance indicators of default are tested on a matched-pair data set drawn from the second-mortgage portfolio of the New...

The purpose of this article is to estimate the size of what the authors term the "import substitution effect" that may occur as part of the incremental economic impact (or economic growth) of a community-based economic event. This import substitution effect is simply the spending by local...

Emphasizing the relevance of cultural factors, sociologists have treated Asian immigrant business ownership as a group phenomenon, heavily dependent on social resources available from group support networks. In this article, the authors' analysis of the "social resources" explanations of Asian...

This study compares and contrasts the reasons American Indian-, Asian-, black-, and Hispanic-owned firms sell to government, the problems they encounter, and their assessments of the overall quality of the purchasing practices of the federal state, county, city, and school district governments....

Import substitution deserves more consideration as a theoretical basis for local economic development policies. Its role in promoting local growth is theoretically well-founded. Less clear is the extent to which public policies can promote it. In order to facilitate experimentation, the article...

Although states maintain an active, continually expanding portfolio of tax incentives, technological assistance, subsidized loans, tax exempt bonds, and direct loans to pursue economic development, the effectiveness, efficiency, and equity of these efforts have not been clearly established....

This article argues that central cities and their surrounding regions are highly interdependent, and that neither suburbs nor central cities are self-sufficient. For example, suburban per capita income is linked to central city per capital income, and the price of peripheral "edge city" office...