It has become almost a cliché to point out that the rise of advanced transportation and communication technologies have provided firms much more locational freedom and that the market for an increased share of goods and services is now international. But these and other factors have...

The purpose of the State New Economy Index is to measure states' economic structure. Unlike other reports that assess state economic performance or state economic policies, this study focuses more narrowly on a simple question: To what degree does the structure of the 50 state economies match...

In the midst of economic slowdowns, it's often hard to think beyond the near term. But, just as the most effective companies take advantage of slowdowns to better position themselves for subsequent periods of strong economic growth, so, too, should states. For the current slowdown, caused in...