Modeling Land-Use Decisions in Rural Areas
In: Review of agricultural economics: RAE, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 103
ISSN: 1467-9353
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In: Review of agricultural economics: RAE, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 103
ISSN: 1467-9353
In: Public works management & policy: a journal for the American Public Works Association, Band 5, Heft 1, S. 26-36
ISSN: 1552-7549
A recent study by the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) found that years of underfunding through 1994 had left investment in U.S. public schools short by $126 billion. To better understand the GAO finding, the authors estimated capital stocks in U.S. public schools; they then projected future capital stocks and infrastructure deficiencies. They use this framework to interpret two federal public school construction financing options: tax credit bonds, promoted by the Clinton administration, and expanding "arbitrage" earnings possibilities for those state and local governments that issue school bonds, promoted by many Republicans in Congress.
In: Public works management & policy: research and practice in infrastructure and the environment, Band 5, Heft 1, S. 26-36
ISSN: 1087-724X
In: Public choice, Band 76, Heft 3, S. 233-247
ISSN: 1573-7101
In: Public choice, Band 76, Heft 3, S. 233-248
ISSN: 0048-5829
In: The quarterly review of economics and finance, Band 35, S. 551-577
ISSN: 1062-9769
In: Growth and change: a journal of urban and regional policy, Band 23, Heft 4, S. 521-530
ISSN: 1468-2257
In: Growth and change: a journal of urban and regional policy, Band 22, Heft 2, S. 1-16
ISSN: 1468-2257
ABSTRACTThe REMI and IMPLAN models are widely used approaches to estimating economic impacts for small regions. However, few benchmarks exist for assessing these estimates. This paper evaluates the relative performance of these models in terms of a given impact: the opening of an automobile assembly plant in central Illinois. Although our results are not conclusive and are limited by our application, we find that in terms of several indirect performance criteria, IMPLAN's outcomes, on balance, are somewhat more plausible than those for REMI.