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2014, Issue Winter
- 14-win-01 The Price Connecticut Pays for Policy Uncertainty
by Steven P. Lanza & Steven P. Lanza - 14-win-02 On the Move
by Dennis Heffley and Ekaterina Gnedenko - 14-win-03 2014Connecticut’s Future Depends on Fairfield County
by Orlando J. Rodriguez
2013, Issue Winter
- 12-win-03 Civil Forfeiture Statutes: An Additional State and Federal Revenue Source?
by Derek M. Johnson - 13-win-01 A Manufacturing Report Card: Does Connecticut Make the Grade?
by Steven P. Lanza - 13-win-02 Government Employment: Boondoggle, Necessary Evil, or Essential?
by Dennis Heffley
2013, Issue Summer
- 13-sum-01 Targeting Gun Violence: Can We Reduce Gun Deaths and Lot Lose Jobs?
by Steven P. Lanza - 13-sum-02 Crime, Public Safety, and Education
by Dennis Heffley - 13-sum-03 Funding Connecticut's Education Cost Sharing
by Stan Mcmillen
2013, Issue Spring
- 13-spr-01 Connecticut Housing: Variety Adds Some Spice to Price
by Steven P. Lanza - 13-spr-02 Setting the Record Straight on Property Taxes
by Dennis Heffley & Ekaterina Gnedenko - 13-spr-03 The Mismatch Between Housing Preferences and Housing Stock
by Bruce Blakey - 13-spr-04 Circuit Breaker for Seniors Could Overload Municipal Finances
by Orlando Rodriguez
2013, Issue Fall
- 13-fal-01 Is Connecticut Master of Its Own Economic Fate?
by Steven P. Lanza - 13-fal-02 Employment Effects of Research Universities
by Dennis Heffley - 13-fal-03 Connecticut Needs a Better Value Proposition
by Douglas G. Fisher
2012, Issue Winter
- 12-win-01 As Good as it Gets?
by Steven P. Lanza - 12-win-02 Hard Times and the Incidence of Poverty
by Arthur W. Wright - 12-win-03 Reinventing Mixed-Use Development
by Dennis Heffley
2012, Issue Summer
- 12-sum-01 Connecticut’s Delicate Balance Between Tax Growth and Volatility
by Steven P. Lanza - 12-sum-02 Taxes, Tax Incentives and Growth: Correlation, Causation or Confusion?
by Stanley McMillen - 12-sum-03 The Road Ahead for Connecticut Public Schools
by Dennis Heffley
2012, Issue Spring
- 12-spr-01 Shared Work; Shared Sacrifices: An Rx for Unemployment?
by Steven P. Lanza - 12-spr-02 How Free is Connecticut?
by Francis W. Ahking - 12-spr-03 Can Economic Equality Add Years to Your Life?
by Dennis Heffley & Zinnia Mukherjee & Lei Chen
2012, Issue Fall
- 12-fal-01 Connecticut: A Command Post for Corporate HQs
by Steven P. Lanza - 12-fal-02 What Drives Fairfield County’s Competitive Position in the Recovery?
by Daniel W. Kennedy - 12-fal-03 Healthy Spending
by Dennis Heffley & Maryjane Lenon
2011, Issue Winter
- 11-win-01 Community Colleges
by Steven P. Lanza - 11-win-02 Roads Not Taken?
by Arthur W. Wright - 11-win-03 Reviving Brownfields
by Maria Chrysochoou & Catalina Granda Carvajal & Kweku T. Brown & Geeta Dahal & Norman W. Garrick & Kathleen Segerson & Amvrossios Bagtzoglou - 11-win-04 Brownfields and Home Prices
by Dennis Heffley
2011, Issue Summer
- 11-sum-01 Taxing Times
by Steven P. Lanza - 11-sum-02 Why is Driving Safer in Connecticut Than in Many Other States?
by Arthur W. Wright & Subhash C. Ray - 11-sum-03 Looking Back on Some Key Connecticut Markets
by Dennis Heffley & Raymond Salani, III
2011, Issue Spring
- 11-spr-01 Making the Best of Calamity
by Steven P. Lanza - 11-spr-02 Parsing Connecticut's Casino Woes
by Arthur W. Wright - 11-spr-03 Connecticut Teachers: Overpaid or Just Making the Rent?
by Ekaterina Gnedenko & Dennis Heffley
2011, Issue Fall
- 11-fal-01 Economic Regulation of Business
by Steven P. Lanza - 11-fal-02 Isolating the Effect of School Quality on Property Values
by Paramita Dhar - 11-fal-03 Wage Competition in Higher Ed
by Dennis Heffley & Maryjane Lenon
2010, Issue Winter
- 10-win-01 Bouncing Back: Explaining the Ability to Recover from Recession in Connecticut and Other States
by Steven P. Lanza - 10-win-02 Stimulate This!–But How?
by Arthur W. Wright - 10-win-03 Getting More From Less
by Dennis Heffley & Can Bekaroglu
2010, Issue Summer
- 10-sum-01 Take Me Out to the Ballgame
by Steven P. Lanza - 10-sum-02 Unfunded Retirement Liabilities
by Arthur W. Wright & Peter S. Barth - 10-sum-03 Should We Top Up the Winemaker’s Cup?
by Dennis Heffley & Chris Jeffords & Jeremy Jelliffe
2010, Issue Spring
- 10-spr-01 Zoning in on Minimum Lot Sizes
by Steven P. Lanza - 10-spr-02 Any End to Budget Nightmares?
by Arthur W. Wright - 10-spr-03 Public Goals, Property Values, and Regional Cooperation
by Ekaterina Gnedenko & Dennis Heffley
2010, Issue Fall
- 10-fal-01 Shining a Light on Connecticut's Shadow Jobs
by Steven P. Lanza - 10-fal-02 Job One for All State Candidates
by Arthur W. Wright - 10-fal-03 High Wages, Low Costs: A Connecticut Paradox?
by Dennis Heffley & Lei Chen & Subhash Ray
2009, Issue Winter
- 09-win-01 Financial Meltdown: How Toxic the Fallout in Connecticut?
by Steven P. Lanza - 09-win-02 Rx for Health Care?: The Massachusetts Experience
by Arthur W. Wright - 09-win-03 Foreclosures and Falling Home Prices
by Dennis Heffley & MaryJane Lenon
2009, Issue Summer
- 09-sum-01 How Big a Hangover from the Stock and Housing Benders?
by Steven P. Lanza - 09-sum-02 Electric A New UConn Hospital?: Hard Questions in Need of Answers
by Arthur W. Wright - 09-sum-03 Sizing-Up Connecticut’s Public Sector
by Dennis Heffley & MaryJane Lenon
2009, Issue Spring
- 09-spr-01 Keynes Rules: Human and Public Capital Spending to the Rescue
by Steven P. Lanza - 09-spr-02 Ties that Bind-And Enable
by Arthur W. Wright - 09-spr-03 The Private Value of Public Policies
by Dennis Heffley
2009, Issue Fall
- 09-fal-01 Commuter Rail: Is Connecticut on the Right Track?
by Steven P. Lanza & Bryan Murphy - 09-fal-02 Deconstructing Medicare Spending Across States
by Arthur W. Wright - 09-fal-03 Finding the Right Mix: Tax Mix Trade-offs Across States
by Dennis Heffley & MaryJane Lenon & Raymond Salani III
2008, Issue Winter
- 08-win-01 Spill-Free Gaming: Connecticut's Casinos Generate Few Adverse Spillover Effects
by Steven P. Lanza - 08-win-02 The State of Play in New England Casino Gaming
by Arthur W. Wright - 08-win-03 Got Game? State's Fiscal Jackpot has Neighbors Seeing Green
by MaryJane Lenon & Dennis Heffley
2008, Issue Summer
- 08-sum-01 Town Government: Is Bigger Better, or Is Small Beautiful?
by Steven P. Lanza - 08-sum-02 Electric Rates in Connecticut: Buyer's Remorse on "Deregulation"
by Arthur W. Wright
2008, Issue Spring
- 08-spr-01 Tax Reform: Should We Cap Property Taxes or Hang our Hats on Other Options?
by Steven P. Lanza - 08-spr-02 Beware Those 'Sleeper Taxes': Unfunded Public Retiree Benefits
by Arthur W. Wright - 08-spr-03 State Health Care Reforms: Lighting the Way or Stoking the Fire?
by Dennis Heffley & Raymond Salani III - 08-spr-04 A Recession, an Election, and the Rhetoric of Change
by William McEachern
2008, Issue Fall
- 08-fal-01 Connecticut at the Median: Are You Better Off?
by Steven P. Lanza - 08-fal-02 Deconstructing Connecticut's Gasoline Excise Taxes
by Arthur W. Wright - 08-fal-03 Property Tax Reform: New Wheels for an Old Pumpkin?
by John Clapp & Dennis Heffley
2007, Issue Winter
- 07-win-01 Where in the World Is Fairfield County?
by Steven P. Lanza - 07-win-02 Offshore "Outsourcing"
by Arthur W. Wright - 07-win-03 The Painful Burden of Health Care Costs
by Dennis Heffley & William Lott & Aldo Ponce
2007, Issue Summer
- 07-sum-01 Keeping Noses to the Grindstone
by Steven P. Lanza - 07-sum-02 A Win-Win State Educational Policy
by Arthur W. Wright - 07-sum-03 What Do CAPT Scores Really Tell Us?
by Dennis Heffley
2007, Issue Spring
- 07-spr-01 Beacons of Light for Connecticut's Cities?
by Steven P. Lanza - 07-spr-02 Bradley International: The Mid-Size Engine That Could
by Arthur W. Wright - 07-spr-03 Packing In the Poor: Poverty New England Style
by Dennis Heffley & MaryJane Lenon
2007, Issue Fall
- 07-fal-01 Fairfield County: Bottleneck or Gateway?
by Steven P. Lanza - 07-fal-02 Connecticut's Stake in a New Immigration Policy
by Arthur W. Wright - 07-fal-03 Oh, Give Me a Home...Where Schools are Good, Taxes are Low, and Property's Cheap
by Dennis Heffley & MaryJane Lenon
2006, Issue Winter
- 06-win-01 An Offer You Can't Refuse: Why Do Connecticut and Other States Use Eminent Domain?
by Steven P. Lanza - 06-win-02 Land with a View: How Nutmeggers Look at Open Space
by Ekaterina Gnedenko & Dennis Heffley
2006, Issue Summer
- 06-sum-01 Connecticut: A State of the Arts?
by Steven P. Lanza - 06-sum-02 As the Wheel of Fortune Turns: Casinos Revisited
by Arthur W. Wright - 06-sum-03 Connecticut's Shell Game: A Tortoise With Attitude?
by Dennis Heffley
2006, Issue Spring
- 06-spr-01 Nutmeggers Get Down to Small Business
by Steven P. Lanza - 06-spr-02 Connecticut Business Taxes In Perspective
by Arthur W. Wright - 06-spr-03 Think Before We Build: Transportation and The Economy
by Dennis Heffley
2006, Issue Fall
- 06-fal-01 Way to Grow: Jobs vs. Per-Capita Output
by Steven P. Lanza - 06-fal-02 A Citizen's (Economic) Guide to the Fall 2006 Election
by Arthur W. Wright - 06-fal-03 Slicing the Political Cake
by Dennis Heffley
2005, Issue Summer
- 05-sum-01 Keeping Connecticut Honest: What Type of Reform is Really Needed?
by Steven P. Lanza - 05-sum-02 State Budget Blues: Whence, and Whither, our Structural Deficit?
by Arthur W. Wright - 05-sum-03 Local Budgets: An Uneven Squeeze
by MaryJane Lenon & Dennis Heffley
2005, Issue Spring
- 05-spr-01 Plumbing Connecticut's Brain Drain
by Steven P. Lanza - 05-spr-02 Winters of Our Discontent: Time to End State Budget Gimmickry
by Arthur W. Wright - 05-spr-03 Investing in Education: Connecticut's Portfolio
by Steven Coelen & Dennis Heffley
2005, Issue Fall
- 05-fal-01 Connecticut Puts its Stock in High-Risk, High-Return Ventures
by Steven P. Lanza - 05-fal-02 When the Other Shoe Drops: Is There Life After the Groton Submarine Complex?
by Arthur W. Wright - 05-fal-03 Subs and Pubs: Public Inputs to the Private Economy
by Dennis Heffley
2004, Issue Winter
- 04-win-01 The Economics of Ethics: The Cost of Political Corruption
by Steven P. Lanza - 04-win-02 Connecticut's Budget Ordeal: Any Gain From All the Pain?
by Arthur W. Wright - 04-win-03 CSI Connecticut
by Dennis Heffley & MaryJane Lenon
2004, Issue Summer
- 04-sum-01 Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks: Does Job Retraining Work? Is it Worth the Cost?
by Steven P. Lanza - 04-sum-02 Zoning: Can a Barrier to Entry Open a Road to Educational Gains?
by Dennis Heffley & MaryJane Lenon
2004, Issue Spring
- 04-spr-01 Connecticut Job Losses: Our Share of National Effects? Or Are We Shifting for Ourselves?
by Steven P. Lanza - 04-spr-02 Too Vital to Leave to Politicians: Connecticut's Big Stake in the World Economy
by Arthur W. Wright - 04-spr-03 Taking Apart Taking Part: Local Labor Force Participation Rates
by Peter Barth & Dennis Heffley
2004, Issue Fall
- 04-fal-01 Connecticut's Health Sector: What's the Prognosis?
by Steven P. Lanza - 04-fal-02 Look at the Bright Side: Connecticut's Less "Miserable" Than Most
by Rexford E. Santerre & Arthur W. Wright - 04-fal-03 Mismanaged Care?
by Dennis Heffley & Anasua Bhattacharya
2003, Issue Winter
- 03-win-01 Sectoral Sources of Connecticut Job Growth
by Steven P. Lanza - 03-win-02 Casino Gaming: The Energizer Bunny of Connecticut Politics
by Arthur W. Wright - 03-win-03 Health Care Spending, Connecticut Style
by Dennis Heffley
2003, Issue Summer
- 03-sum-01 Homing In on Connecticut Housing Affordability
by Steven P. Lanza - 03-sum-02 Business Location: Two Sides of the Coin
by Dennis Heffley & Dean Hanink
2003, Issue Spring
- 03-spr-01 Ten Years of the Connecticut Economy
by Steven P. Lanza - 03-spr-02 Connecticut's People: How Much Difference Has a Decade Made?
by Arthur W. Wright - 03-spr-03 The 1990s: When Yachts Rose Faster Than Dinghies
by Dennis Heffley & MaryJane Lenon - 03-spr-04 We Didn't Know How Bad We Had It Back Then
by William McEachern
2003, Issue Fall
- 03-fal-01 Energy Price Spikes Siphon High-Octane Fuel from State's Economy
by Steven P. Lanza - 03-fal-02 Fiddling While Rome Goes Dark: the Meaning of 8/14 for Connecticut
by Arthur W. Wright - 03-fal-03 Interstate Differences in Residential Electricity Use
by Dennis Heffley
2002, Issue Winter
- 02-win-01 In Connecticut’s Service Economy Recession, the Commodity Sector Have Got the Goods
by Steven P. Lanza - 02-win-02 Same Old, Same Old...But With A Difference?
by Arthur W. Wright - 02-win-03 Can We Reduce Inequality Without Hurting Economic Performance?
by Dennis Heffley - 02-win-04 State Budget Shortfall Takes Us Back to the Future
by William McEachern
2002, Issue Summer
- 02-sum-01 Making Cents of Civics
by Steven P. Lanza - 02-sum-02 Quality-of-Life, Affordable Housing: Take Your Pick
by Dennis Heffley & Monica Lopez-Anuarbe
2002, Issue Spring
- 02-spr-01 Older, Wiser, and Better Schooled Than Ever
by Steven P. Lanza - 02-spr-02 Human Capital, Research, and Taxpayers' Money: A Microeconomic Look at UConn
by Arthur W. Wright - 02-spr-03 Tracking Educational Performance
by Dennis Heffley
2002, Issue Fall
- 02-fal-01 Making Municipal Ends Meet: Do It Yourself or Hire a Pro?
by Steven P. Lanza - 02-fal-02 Reality Bites: The Hobson's Choices of State Budgeting in the "New Economy"
by Arthur W. Wright - 02-fal-03 My Big Fat State Government?
by Dennis Heffley
2001, Issue Winter
- 01-win-01 Energy Costs Send Consumer Prices Skyward
by Steven P. Lanza - 01-win-02 On This Roll of the Dice, Southeastern Connecticut (And the Rest of Us) Got Lucky
by Arthur W. Wright - 01-win-03 Eastern Connecticut Hops Up Development Efforts
by Dennis Heffley
2001, Issue Summer
- 01-sum-01 Housing Affordability Returns, But at a Price
by Steven P. Lanza - 01-sum-03 Costly Homes, Crowded Roads...Welcome to Southwest Connecticut
by Dennis Heffley
2001, Issue Spring
- 01-spr-01 The Ups and Downs of the Connecticut Income Tax
by Steven P. Lanza - 01-spr-02 Tales of Two Cities: What the Dickens is Wrong with Hartford? And Would Acts of Providence Fix It?
by Arthur W. Wright
2001, Issue Fall
- 01-fal-01 Connecticut Loves Open Space - If It's Accessible
by Steven P. Lanza - 01-fal-02 Litchfield County is Tourist Country. But What Does That Mean?
by Arthur W. Wright - 01-fal-03 Painful Reminders of What Really Matters
by Dennis Heffley
2000, Issue Winter
- 00-win-01 New Economy - Old Price Index
by Steven P. Lanza - 00-win-02 Productivity Growth Drives Connecticut's New Economy
by Dennis Heffley - 00-win-03 What’s the Score as Connecticut Edges into a New Century?
by William McEachern - 00-win-04 How Come We’re Still Tops?
by William McEachern
2000, Issue Summer
- 00-sum-01 Fueled by High Prices, Connecticut Leads in Energy Efficiency
by Steven P. Lanza - 00-sum-02 Competition in Electric Power: Not There Yet
by Brian T. Kench Arthur W. Wright - 00-sum-03 Falling Bridges, Rising Prices, and the Connecticut Motor Fuel Tax
by Dennis Heffley - 00-sum-04 Income Still Tops, But Poverty Increases
by William McEachern
2000, Issue Spring
- 00-spr-01 Prices, 1980s Style
by Steven P. Lanza - 00-spr-02 Riding Fairfield County's Income Coattails
by Steven P. Lanza - 00-spr-03 A Small State With Big Gaps...Are They Getting Even Bigger?
by Dennis Heffley - 00-spr-04 The State Income Tax By the Numbers
by William McEachern - 00-spr-05 Labor Force Participation Rates
by William McEachern
2000, Issue Fall
- 00-fal-01 Connecticut Home Prices Now More Affordable
by Steven P. Lanza - 00-fal-02 Census 2000: A Political Primer, With An Economics Chaser
by Arthur W. Wright - 00-fal-03 Death Valley
by William McEachern
1999, Issue Winter
- 99-win-01 The Persistence of Place in an Internet World
by William McEachern - 99-win-02 Car Sales and Road Traffic
by William McEachern
1999, Issue Summer
- 99-sum-01 Crime and Punishment in Connecticut
by William McEachern - 99-sum-02 Connecticut’s FIREd Up!
by William McEachern
1999, Issue Spring
- 99-spr-01 State Income Tax Now Biggest Fiscal Horse
by William McEachern - 99-spr-02 Some State Income Tax Snapshots
by William McEachern
1999, Issue Fall
- 99-fal-01 Southwest Storms the Northeast
by William McEachern - 99-fal-02 Forbes by the Numbers
by William McEachern
1998, Issue Winter
- 98-win-01 Changes in Connecticut's Median Household Help Explain the Income Decline
by William McEachern - 98-win-02 Connecticut's Income Inequality
by William McEachern
1998, Issue Summer
- 98-sum-01 Are Labor Shortages Killing the Expansion?
by William McEachern - 98-sum-02 Job Machines and Bedroom Communities
by William McEachern
1998, Issue Spring
- 98-spr-01 Job Totals Rising, Labor Force Shrinking? Go Figure
by William McEachern - 98-spr-02 Connecticut's Progressive Income Tax
by William McEachern
1998, Issue Fall
- 98-fal-01 The Connecticut Economy Meets Wall Street
by William McEachern - 98-fal-02 New England Check-Up
by William McEachern
1997, Issue Winter
- 97-win-01 Connecticut's Exodus is Losing Steam
by William McEachern - 97-win-02 CT Extends Income Lead
by William McEachern
1997, Issue Summer
- 97-sum-01 Small City Geography...Big City Problems
by William McEachern - 97-sum-02 Was the Great Recession a Double-Dipper?
by William McEachern
1997, Issue Spring
- 97-spr-01 A Hard Look at Connecticut's Software Industry
by William McEachern - 97-spr-02 Confidence Converges
by William McEachern
1997, Issue Fall
- 97-fal-01 Some Virtues of Part-Time Employment in Connecticut
by William McEachern - 97-fal-02 Tracking the Hartford Region Through the Yellow Pages
by William McEachern
1996, Issue October
- 96-fal-01 The Light at the End of the Fiber-optic Cable: Connecticut's Photonics Cluster
by William McEachern - 96-fal-02 County Income Patters
by William McEachern
1996, Issue July
- 96-sum-01 Crime Down in '95
by William McEachern
1996, Issue January
- 96-win-01 Recession Watch
by William McEachern - 96-win-02 Just the FAQs on Connecticut's Economy: Some Frequently Asked Questions
by William McEachern