This paper evaluates Indiana’s economy by using an input-output (I-O) model to decompose output growth of two sectors into regional demand, external demand, the progress of import substitutions, and technological change. We use the Syrquin (1976, 1986, 1988) industry decomposition method...

Dagney Faulk and Michael Hicks, Local Government Consolidation in the United States. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2011.

This study applies a quasi-experimental method for performing economic impact analy-sis of a firm‟s entrance on regional labor markets. The impact studied is the entrance of a Ca-bela‟s retail outlet in seven U.S. counties from 1998 through 2003. Using a time-space dynamic model in a...