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Best-Performing Cities 2016
Which factors are determining the divergence in economic performance of metropolitan areas around the nation? W...
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2016 California Summit Review: An Action Plan for Growth and Innovation
The Milken Institute’s fourth annual California Summit provided an opportunity to assemble prominent state lead...
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Evaluation and Determinants of US Metro Economic Performance
The Milken Institute has published various reports evaluating urban performance. In addition to its flagship Be...
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Accelerating Workforce Housing Development Across California
California has long had a shortage of affordable housing, most notably along the coast, around universities and...
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Preparing California for the Future of Work: Creating Equity by Addressing the Access Gap
This report focuses on how the public and private sector workforce systems in California have adapted to techno...
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Here’s What Small Business Owners and Government Must Do Now to Survive the COVID-19 Crisis and Rebound
The COVID-19 outbreak is decimating the global economy with company shutdowns and soaring unemployment.
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Examining Arizona’s Technology and Research Initiative Fund
In November 2000, voters passed Proposition 301 in the state of Arizona. The initiative not only approved a 0.6...
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Sam Hanigan
Sam Hanigan is a senior associate in the Milken Institute’s Center for Regional Economics and California Center. He focuses on issues con...
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Charlotte Kesteven
Charlotte Kesteven is a senior policy analyst at the Center for Regional Economics at the Milken Institute. Her research is centered on r...
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Aaron Melaas
Aaron Melaas is associate director of the Center for Regional Economics at the Milken Institute in Santa Monica, where he is responsible ...
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Recalibrating Workforce Development Across California
The COVID-19 crisis has had far-reaching consequences, including the upending of traditional work systems and t...
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Michael C.Y. Lin, PhD
Dr. Michael Cheng-Yi Lin is a Regional Economist within the Research Department at the Milken Institute. His current research focuses on ...
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Matt Horton
Matt Horton is a director at the Milken Institute’s Center for Regional Economics and California Center. In this capacity, he interacts w...
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Geopolitical Risks and Heightened Market Volatility are New Risks to Global Growth
Markets are reacting badly to rising tensions between North Korea and the United States even as most forecaster...
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Containing Cacophonous Central Bankers Does Not Ensure Credible Policymaking
Why are financial markets obsessed with reducing the “noise” surrounding central bank policy statements?
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Seeds for Higher Productivity Growth Planted in Tax Reform Bill
As the new tax legislation waits for President Trump’s signature, public discussion continues to ignore one of ...
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Weak Income Gains and Strong Investment Help Dissipate Inflation Pressures
Strong expenditure growth and tightening labor markets are spooking financial markets by intensifying fears tha...
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No Reason to Accelerate Rate Increases as Tepid Growth and Ample Slack Continue to Moderate Inflation
Stalling growth and still-ample labor market slack belie increasing market anxiety that the Fed will have to ac...
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U.S. Investment Surges as U.S. Markets Remain a Magnet for Global Capital
U.S. investment opportunities continue to fixate global investors and spur them to tap U.S.