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State and local governments are increasingly confronted with difficult choices regarding the provision of public services, school funding, tax policies, and public infrastructure and human capital investment. As business and households become ever more mobile, Econsult's State and Local Policy and Finance Group is uniquely qualified to help state and local governments develop strategies to efficiently deliver public services demanded by residents, develop tax revenue streams that are fair and impose the least distortion to the private economy, and make the investments necessary — in both bricks-and-mortar and people — to ensure state or locality's future competitiveness. Just as importantly, the Group can help private entities seeking to participate in the policy process and businesses seeking to optimize in the context of changing public policies.
Our State and Local Policy and Finance Group has wide and deep expertise in analyzing:
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What are their competitive strengths and weaknesses? What are the broader economic forces affecting their economies? |
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What are the most efficient mechanisms to generate funds to pay for the public provision of goods and services? What are the economic implications of alternative choices? |
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How is state or local public policy determined, and how are budget allocation decisions made? |
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How is productivity affected by institutional structures, including intergovernmental relationships, labor-management relationships and compensation systems, governance, applications of new technologies to production, and public-private partnerships?
Our engagements have included analyses of economic impacts of local taxes on economic activity, evaluation of alternative tax structures for school finance, assessments of public investments in various economic development activities and in analyses of the factors affecting productivity of government agencies and public authorities.
Our staff and affiliates include nationally recognized experts in public finance and urban economics. Staff members have outstanding academic credentials and extensive decision-making experience at the highest levels of the public policy process. |
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Ardmore Transit Center
Analyses and Ongoing Consulting Services, 2009
(Since 2002)
Lancaster Northwest Gateway TIF: Making a Case, Lancaster, PA, 2008
Estimated Residential Rental Level for New Jersey Census Tracts, 2008
The Schuylkill River Development Corporation – Economic Impacts and Business Strategies, 2004
Philadelphia Tax Reform Commission, Econometric Analysis of the Impact of Tax Rates, 2003
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