Publications

This report describes the results of an economic development incentives survey administered to local economic developers in Virginia.  It presents local developer assessments of the usefulness of various state incentives, level of local utilization of state incentives, and importance of state incentives compared to other location factors.  It also provides an inventory of the types of local economic development incentives provided by Virginia

Article in Nature Climate Change discusses the tradeoffs involved in using carbon removal technologies to help control global warming by reducing atmospheric CO₂ concentrations. A nice summary is here. 

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.

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.

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

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.