Policy & Regulation

Economic Analysis

Public officials and investors both want to know what a project actually does to an economy. We answer that with dynamic regional modeling rather than a multiplier applied to a headline number — jobs, output, income, and population, traced through a specific region over time.

Capabilities

Five ways we work. The modeling behind them is shared, so results across a single engagement stay internally consistent.

Economic Impact Analysis

What a project or policy does to a regional economy: employment, output, value added, personal income, and population, by industry and by year. We model the counterfactual as carefully as the project itself, so the result reads as net effect rather than gross activity.

Benefit-Cost Analysis

A disciplined comparison of what an investment costs and what it returns, discounted over the life of the asset, with the assumptions exposed and stress-tested. Built to hold up in a public hearing and in a federal grant application, where the two audiences ask different questions of the same numbers.

Regional Economic Forecasting

Baseline and scenario forecasts of employment, output, and income for a defined region, so a client or a public partner can see how a decision performs against the trajectory the region was already on rather than against zero.

Demographic Analysis

Population, migration, age structure, and household formation for a region, and how each responds to an economic change. This is the layer that determines whether projected jobs can actually be filled locally, and what housing and public services a project implies.

Labor Market Analysis

Occupational supply and demand, wage levels, commuting patterns, competing employers, and training pipelines for a defined labor shed — the evidence behind a staffing plan, an incentive case, or a site decision.