What Will the Next Three Months Look Like? Simulating the Impact of Social Distancing on GDP and Employment
Ball State Center for Business and Economic Research
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These studies provide a potential scope of the impact on national employment in the wake of COVID-19. In this brief analysis, we extend that lens to Indiana, providing simulations of the likely effect of extreme social distancing on the state’s economy in 2020. |
Published March 19, 2020
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Occupational Exposure to Social Distancing: A Preliminary Analysis using O*NET Data
Ball State Center for Business and Economic Research
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The growing risk of contracting Covid-19 has prompted calls in many nations to engage in Social Distancing. This is a deliberate effort to reduce the transmission of the disease in businesses, schools, and gathering places. |
Published March 13, 2020
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Do Indiana Residents Spend Too Much on Healthcare?
Ball State Center for Business and Economic Research
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This study examines per capita healthcare expenditures, hospital prices, and market concentration (monopolization) in Indiana, through the context of healthcare outcomes and behaviors. We construct a healthcare expenditure model of all 50 states and compare the per person expenditures in other states to Hoosier residents in 20 categories of potential causal factors. |
Published December 17, 2019
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The 2020 Economic Forecast for the United States, Midwest, and East Central Indiana
Ball State Center for Business and Economic Research
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We review changes in U.S. employment and output, with considerations for the manufacturing and housing industries. We then provide the 2020 forecast and predict economic performance at the state and local levels. Indiana Economic Outlook event sponsored by First Merchants. Presented Dec. 11, 2019. |
Published December 11, 2019
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Local Government Responses to Property Tax Rate Caps: An Analysis of Indiana Municipal Governments
Ball State Bowen Center for Public Affairs
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This policy brief investigates local government responses to revenue decreases caused by property tax rate caps. Using data on 28 municipal governments in Indiana, we examine the extent to which they utilize two policy options available for managing declining revenues. We find that Indiana municipalities did engage in strategies to reduce budgets and employment and also increase revenue since the implementation of tax rate caps. Produced in partnership with the Bowen Center for Public Affairs at Ball State University. |
Published December 6, 2019
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