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Carilion Clinic's Economic Contribution to the State and Service Region

This study evaluates the economic contribution that Carilion Clinic makes to the state, its service region and individual service areas where it operates. The study has two components. The first part examines the economic contribution that results from clinic-related spending using IMPLAN input-output models. This contribution includes the economic activity stimulated by clinic payroll and procurement of supplies and services.

Honoring Those Who Served: An Analysis of Virginia State Veterans Cemeteries

The study identifies optimal locations for a new state cemetery and provides up-to-date projections of veteran interments to the year 2045.

This report describes changes that have occurred since a previous report, Commemorating Military Service and Sacrifice in Virginia: An Analysis of Veteran Memorial Needs, was published in 2013 and evaluates the memorial needs of Virginia’s veterans. It describes changes to U.S.

Emerging Issues in Decentralized Resource Governance: Environmental Federalism, Spillovers, and Linked Socio-Ecological Systems

This paper is a review of some current issues in the field of environmental federalism.

COVID-19 Economic and Tax Revenue Impacts

The Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service today produced a paper on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Virginia's economy.

From Zero to Hero?: Why Integrated Assessment Modeling of Negative Emissions Technologies Is Hard and How We Can Do Better

A comparison of NETs results from several different IAMs and system-dynamics models reveal that virtually all rely primarily on BECCS to limit warming to 1.5°C by 2100.

Climate change mitigation strategies informed by Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) increasingly rely on major deployments of negative emissions technologies (NETs) to achieve global climate targets. This article points to the need for better representation of NETs in IAMs to support better decisions about the future deployment of NETs.

Survey of Virginia Economic Development Incentives

This report describes the results of an economic development incentives survey undertaken as part of a major Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) funded project to evaluate the economic impacts of economic development incentive programs offered by the Commonwealth of Virginia.

The Effects of "Non-binding" Price Floors

Hard price floors are a standard form of agricultural price support while soft floors (auction reserve prices) are often included in cap-and-trade programs.

Clarke County, Virginia: Cost of Community Services Study

This study examines the cost of community services for land-use categories in Clarke County, Virginia for Fiscal Year 2017.

Virginia Local Tax Rates 2018

2018 Virginia Local Tax Rates Available

The Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia is pleased to announce that the publication “Virginia Local Tax Rates: 2018,” 37th Annual Edition, is in print and is available through

Virginia Local Tax Rates 2017

The 375-page book features tax information for all 38 Virginia cities, all 95 counties and for 134 of the state’s 192 incorporated towns. The soft-cover book was compiled by Stephen C. Kulp, research specialist with Weldon Cooper’s Center for Economic and Policy Studies.