Publications

By large margins, Virginians don’t like the idea of politicians creating their own legislative districts. The once-a-decade exercise known as redistricting, which next rolls around in 2021, is a powerful tool for lawmakers to keep themselves and their party in office. When a district is obviously drawn just for that purpose, the process is known as gerrymandering.

This study describes the agricultural sector in Fauquier County and gauges the contribution that it makes to the county economy. The study takes a comprehensive approach to measuring the economic contribution of agriculture. Not only does it gauge the economic impact of agriculture sales, but also it looks at the role of closely related value-added industries such as wine and animal slaughtering and processing.

This is the thirty-second edition of the Cooper Center annual publication on tax rates levied by Virginia local governments. In addition to information about tax rates, the publication contains details about tax administration, valuation methods and due dates. There is also information on water and sewer rates, waste disposal charges and numerous other aspects of local government finance.

We use a set of economic experiments to test the effects of some novel features of California's new controls on greenhouse gas emissions. The California cap and trade scheme imposes limits on allowance ownership, uses a tiered price containment reserve sale, and settles allowance auctions based on the lowest accepted bid. We examine the effects of these features on market liquidity, efficiency, and price variability.

Presentation to the Virginia Forestry Association Board of Directors on forest industry economic characteristics, trends, and economic impacts.

Presentation to the Virginia Association of Assessing Officers, 58th VAAO Education Seminar in Charlottesville, Virginia on July 17, 2013.

This study examines the effect of the public higher education sector on Virginia's economy.  It is an update of a study conducted four years ago.  The study is based on new information made available since the last study and contains some methodological refinements and utilizes new Virginia-specific data sources to further improve the accuracy of the results.  The study provides a full accounting of the current flow of economic activity i

This study describes the contribution of the agriculture and forestry
industries to Virginia's economy.  It makes use of input-output
analysis to identify agriculture and forestry backward and forward
linkages to other industries and institutions.  It also provides
separate estimates of agriculture and forest impacts, impacts by
industry groupings arranged by level of dependency on raw materials

Presentation by economist Terry Rephann at the 2nd Annual "State of Asian Business Entrepreneurship" Forum in Richmond, Virginia on May 23, 2013.