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Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Medicaid Expansion Reversal in Ohio
The “One Big Beautiful Bill” passed recently by the House of Representatives significantly cuts federal funding for Medicaid. It is uncertain how these cuts will affect the program…
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Economic Impacts of Retiring & Replacing the San Juan Generating Station in 2022
The Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) has entrusted REMI to analyze the economic and demographic impacts of retiring the coal-fired San Juan Generating Station (SJGS), loc…
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The National Economic Impacts of Current Legislative Proposals to Change the Capital Gains Tax
REMI was entrusted, by the Committee to Unleash Prosperity (CTUP), to perform a national economic impact analysis of the three proposed changes to the STEP Act (Sensible Taxation a…
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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…
Make REMI Your Own: A Planning Perspective on Implementing REMI
This presentation delivered by the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) explores how they employ the REMI PI+ and TranSight models to produce local long-range demographic, employment and economic forecasts for the 20-county ARC region. ARC highlights their innovative approach for using the model such as collaborating and …
Metropolitan Council’s Forecasts Methodology
The Metropolitan Council puts forth regional forecasts that consider the Twin Cities’ situation within the overall national economy and in order to assess their findings, it is important to understand the operative methodology behind the analysis. The Council selected REMI Policy Insight (PI) in 2011 as the most approp…
Decision Framework for Evaluating the Macroeconomic Risks and Policy Impacts of Cyber Attacks
Global cyber infrastructure is interconnected with and instrumental to economic prosperity and national security. However, most cyber infrastructure is not secure and is vulnerable to attacks from malicious actors potentially leading to failure of critical infrastructure, exploitation of sensitive information, and loss…
Regional Economic Competitiveness Assessment: Economic Forecast for The Regional Planning Commission of Greater Birmingham
On behalf of The Regional Planning Commission of Greater Birmingham, REMI prepared a report that produced a fundamental economic and demographic forecast for the six-county Greater Birmingham region and provided an assessment of the region’s economic competitiveness. This improved understanding of their region allows t…
The Macroeconomic Impact of LNG Exports: Integrating the GPCM® Natural Gas Model and the PI+® Regional Model
This study was an integrated effort between RBAC and REMI to display how incorporating two complimentary modeling tools can create a more complete comprehension of the topic being analyzed. The REMI PI+ and RBAC GPCM models were combined to examine the macroeconomic impact of liquefied natural gas exports as an example…
Linking the MARKAL and REMI PI+ Models
This report outlines the benefits of combining the MARKAL model and the REMI PI+ model to examine the interactions between the energy sector and the wider economy. The REMI and MARKAL models can be integrated both ways, with REMI providing economic and demographic parameters for the MARKAL reference scenario or MARKAL …
Energy Efficiency: Engine of Economic Growth: A Macroeconomic Modeling Assessment
This study utilized a REMI multi-state policy forecasting model to project macroeconomic impacts of expanded efficiency programs in comparison to a scenario in which no such programs exist. New England was separated into six states and each state’s efficiency programs were tested for electricity, natural gas, and “unre…
Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions Modeling: ENERGY 2020 Model Inputs and Assumptions
ICF International was selected to assist the state and the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Task Force in updating the State of Hawaii’s inventory of greenhouse gas emissions and to develop and model alternative plans to achieve the State’s greenhouse gas reduction target. This report outlined the assumptions and dat…
A Comparison of Three Economic Impact Models for Applied Hospitality and Tourism Research
The capacity utilization model (CUM), Regional Economic Models, Inc. (REMI), and the impact analysis for planning (IMPLAN) model were put to the test in order to acquire a fuller understanding of each model’s ability to accurately analyze various data sets pertaining to the hospitality and tourism sectors. Payroll was …
Economic Impact of Shopping Center Developments
The REMI Policy Insight model was contracted for use by the International Council of Shopping Centers to assess three American shopping center developments and their corresponding economies. REMI was asked to model the total economic impacts in three distinct regional economies associated with various levels of site in…
Regional Economic Analysis and Impact Models
This paper from the University of Utah assessed the key difference between input-output modeling and REMI’s dynamic modeling approach. It includes diagrams for the structures of both types of models as well as detailed descriptions of the capabilities and linkages of each style of economic modeling. The author also fou…
Modeling Practices and Their Ability to Assess Tax/Expenditure Economic Impacts
This report reviewed five economic models (IMPLAN, TRAIN/Dynamic TRAIN, STAMP, DRAM, and REMI) to assess their usefulness in appraising behavioral responses as an aid to evaluating proposed tax legislation. Every model was thoroughly explained, including numbered lists of advantages and disadvantages for each. The repo…
The Waxing and Waning of Regional Economies: The Chicken-Egg Question of Jobs Versus People
This study revisits the long-debated chicken-egg question of whether people follow newly created jobs into regions or whether jobs follow newly arrived migrants with the help of economic modeling. Researchers found that labor demand shocks are deemed to be more important on average than migration innovations in determi…
Productivity and Accessibility: Bridging Project-Specific and Macroeconomic Analyses of Transportation Investments
When it comes to transportation analysis, there are two primary perspectives typically used in the corresponding studies. The first relies on overly narrow measures of economic benefits and the second focuses on economic productivity, defines benefits more broadly, and is limited by geographic and functional aggregatio…