Absent from the economic development literature is a manageable and quantitative analysis that compares regional export enhancement and import substitution strategies. Single sector Leontief and Keynesian models are developed to show how these development strate-gies relate to one another. Both...

Economic contribution and impact studies are common tasks for regional economists, but the semantics of the discipline suffer from a lack of standardization with respect to dif-ferences between economic contributions, impacts and benefits. These terms refer to 3 dis-tinct metrics which are...

Municipalities have used tax incentives to attract manufacturing firms to counteract market failures, mobilize resources in blighted areas, and engage in bidding wars with other jurisdictions. These reasons have typically been remedies for regions experiencing unemployment and low growth....