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This report is the first of its kind and is the first step in a different way for the San Diego region to evaluate itself in three broad areas: the economy, the environment and equity. These three areas are inextricably linked and work synergistically to affect the quality of life in a region, the report indicates.

The report explores the challenges the United States currently faces and, in many ways, is ignoring
at its peril. The purpose is to alert audiences that America’s edge, particularly in science and technology, is increasingly at risk. AeA began this discussion in March 2004 with a report on offshore outsourcing. This report serves as a natural sequel, in that it addresses this big picture.

A snapshot of the current economic structure of the Salt Lake City Central Business District (CBD) is given
in the 2005 economic profile. This profile gives data on the magnitude of important economic indicators in the CBD: employment, wages, commercial square footage, retail sales, housing units, hotel occupancy and convention attendee spending.

As an update to a previous report on the same topic in May 1999, the study finds that contributions of land-grant institutions to their states are diverse and extensive. The focus of the study is on the direct, indirect, and total economic impacts WVU and affiliated organizations had on the West Virginia economy.

The speech from Richard W. Fisher, CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, discusses the leadership of America in the global marketplace and the increasing competition from countries such as China and India.

This paper assesses the UK aerospace industry’s competitiveness. Various statistical indicators are used to measure competitiveness, based on published data at the industry and firm level. The indicators include productivity, output, firm size, development time-scales, labour hoarding, exports and profitability.

This paper presents a theoretical model, based on the neoclassical growth literature, which explicitly takes into account technological interdependence among economies and examines the impact of location and neighborhood effects in explaining growth.

This paper uses cross-country regulation data to estimate the relationship between regulation and long-run growth in a large sample of countries. The empirical results suggest that business regulations have a negative impact on growth even when the level of economic freedom is also included in the model.

The authors measure the rate of economic growth for various time spans using previously uninvestigated state-level cross-section data for the United States. The two-stage least square (2SLS) estimates with a carefully selected set of instruments show that the effect of corruption on economic growth is indeed negative and statistically significant in the middle and long spans but insignificant in the short span.

The authors survey the literature on the role of communities in the development of a market economy in Japan, focusing on the export industries in the early stage of the modern economic development.