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  • Tax and FiscalVirginia||VA2020

    COVID-19 Economic and Tax Revenue Impacts: Estimates for the Commonwealth of Virginia and Localities

    The Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service’s Center for Economic and Policy Studies at the University of Virginia utilized the REMI PI+ model to estimate the effects of COVID-19, both economically and fiscally, for their study of the pandemic’s impact on the Commonwealth of Virginia and its localities. Their report es…

  • Economic Development, Planning, ForecastingFlorida||FL2020

    The COVID-19 Pandemic in the Tampa Bay Area and Florida: A Preliminary Economic Impact Assessment

    The Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council prepared a preliminary analysis of COVID-19’s impact on the state of Florida and the Tampa Bay Area economy by implementing the REMI PI+ model to quantify the loss of spending activity and the indirect economic effects of that lost spending activity. The Council used the model in…

  • Economic Development, Planning, ForecastingVirginia||VA2020

    Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Estimates for Hampton Roads

    The Hampton Roads Planning District Commission used their REMI PI+ model to provide estimates for two scenarios, moderate and severe, in this initial attempt to understand the potential economic impacts of COVID-19 on their region. Both scenarios resulted in significant declines for the region’s employment and gross do…

  • Energy and EnvironmentMinnesota||MN2020

    Xcel Energy – Minnesota Utility Economic Impact Study: Economic Impact of Utility Scenarios on Host Communities

    The University of Colorado Boulder’s Leeds School of Business produced this report that evaluated the economic impact of alternative generation plans in four Minnesota communities and the state overall using their six-region REMI E3+ model. Their analysis focused on the state’s major electric utility, Xcel Energy, and …

  • Consulting & AdvisingDistrict of Columbia||DC2020

    Memorandum re REMI Modeling of COVID-19 Economic Impacts

    The COVID-19 pandemic is widely expected to have a variety of disruptive effects on the U.S. economy. This memorandum lays out some of the key types of disruptions and discusses how to model each of them using REMI in order to measure the full economic impact of a pandemic. For all Tax-PI users, the calibration of you…

  • Economic Development, Planning, ForecastingCalifornia||CA2020

    Tying Office Development to Affordable Housing Production: Economic Impact Report

    This report completed by the City & County of San Francisco analyzed the economic impact of a proposed ballot measure, the “San Francisco Balanced Development Act,” that would reduce the annual limit on additional new office space in the city if they did not meet a certain threshold for affordable housing production se…

  • Labor and WorkforceDistrict of Columbia||DC2019

    The Longevity Economy® Outlook

    AARP and The Economist Intelligence Unit used the REMI model to expand upon their previous reports covering the economic impact of the 50-plus population and forecast these impacts out to the year 2050. The REMI model allowed for analysts to generate a comprehensive projection of the 50-plus population’s economic impac…

  • Tax and FiscalMichigan||MI2019

    Macroeconomic Feedback Effects of Medicaid Expansion: Evidence from Michigan

    The University of Michigan’s Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics (RSQE) selected the state of Michigan as a case study for evaluating Medicaid expansion and its state-level fiscal impacts. This analysis took into account the importance of macroeconomic feedback effects relative to the fiscal effects ordinarily e…

  • Economic Development, Planning, ForecastingMontana||MT2019

    The Economic Contributions of Hutterite Communities in Montana

    In a partnership with the Montana State University Department of Economics and Agricultural Economics, the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of Montana studied the economic contributions of the Lehrerleut Branch of Montana’s Hutterite Communities. This report utilized the REMI model to identify…

  • Energy and EnvironmentIllinois||IL2019

    The Impacts of Illinois Nuclear Power Plants on the Economy and the Environment

    The Brattle Group utilized the REMI model to estimate the impact of four nuclear plants in Illinois on the state’s economy, in addition to the emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants, over a ten-year period. The impacts were determined by modeling the performance of the regional power system and the Illinois e…

  • TransportationWashington||WA2019

    Puget Sound Regional Transportation Fuels Analysis

    The macroeconomic and distributional impacts of compliance with a Puget Sound region Clean Fuel Standard (CFS) on different sectors and nearby regions were modeled using REMI’s E3+ model by ICF. This analysis and its findings indicated that the economic impacts across all four modeled scenarios generated Gross Regional…

  • Tax and FiscalWashington||WA2019

    2019 Tax Preference Performance Reviews Aerospace Tax Preferences

    The Washington Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee (JLARC) utilized the REMI model to ensure that tax preferences benefited the aerospace industry. The tax preferences, initially enacted in 2003, had three public policy objectives in the legislation: The first was to reduce the cost of doing business in Washin…

  • Economic Development, Planning, ForecastingUtah||UT2019

    Economic Impacts of Utah’s Life Sciences Industry

    In order to evaluate the indirect and induced effects resulting from direct economic activity in Utah’s life sciences industry, researchers at the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute at the University of Utah utilized a 70-sector REMI PI+ model. They incorporated the model to estimate the amount of Utah life sciences outpu…

  • Labor and WorkforceNorth Carolina||NC2019

    The Economic and Employment Benefits of Expanding Medicaid in North Carolina

    In order to analyze the effects and benefits of expanding Medicaid in North Carolina, George Washington University utilized the REMI model to calculate the impact of the economic stimulus of new federal revenue added into the state economy because of the expansion of Medicaid. Researchers on this analysis identified ho…

  • Consulting & AdvisingColorado||CO2019

    Senate Bill 181: The Statewide Cost of Prohibitions, Restrictions and Regulatory Uncertainty in Colorado’s Energy Sector

    The REMI Partnership conducted an analysis of Colorado Senate Bill 181 (SB-181), which is intended to promote health and safety in the state as it increases local involvement in the oil and natural gas development permitting process. With this report, the REMI Partnership sought out to inform policymakers of the jobs, …