Regional Economic Analysis

Regional economic modeling, economic contribution analyses, and economic impact analyses can all provide useful information to researchers, private firms, industry organizations, and policymakers for communication and decision making purposes. The EIAP has a long history of sponsored research projects as well as independent research collaborations that have resulted in a large portfolio of research outputs. Information about current projects as well as recent EIAP reports and academic publications that employ general regional economic analysis methods can be found on this page. Data visualizations associated with several projects are also available on the EIAP Data Platform. Outputs from past project can be accessed via the EIAP Research Archive. 

• Current Projects
  • Climate Change on Coastal Food-Webs and Fisheries
    Source of support: NASEM
  • Regionalization methods for the U.S. Environmentally Extended Input-Output Model (USEEIO)
    Source of support: GDIT/Contract with the US EPA
• Current Program Reports

  Agriculture & Natural Resources (incl. Animal Production, Horticulture)

  2020-2021 Economic Contributions of the Florida Citrus Industry , February 2023, Julio Cruz, Joao-Pedro Ferreira, Christa D. Court.

  Economic Contributions of the Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Food Industries in Florida, 2019, August 2022, Christa D. Court, Joao-Pedro Ferreira, Robert Botta, and Kelsey McDaid

  Economic Contributions of the Florida Beekeeping Industry in 2020, July 2022, Christa D. Court, Alan Hodges, Amy Vu, Lauren Roberts, Tyler Carney, Jamie Ellis, Kevin Athearn, Joao Ferreira, Kelsey McDaid, Christopher Oster, and Cody Prouty

  Economic Contributions of the Florida Citrus Industry, 2019-20, August 2021, Christa D. Court, Joao Ferreira, Julio Cruz

  Economic Contributions of the Fruit and Vegetable Juice Industry in the United States in 2017, July 2020, Thomas H. Spreen, Alan W. Hodges, Christa D. Court, and Angelia Chen

  Economic Contributions of the Florida Citrus Industry, 2018-2019, June 2020, Christa D. Court, Joao-Pedro Ferreira, and Julio Cruz

  Economic Contributions of the Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Food Industries in Florida, 2018, May 2020, Christa D. Court, and Joao-Pedro Ferreira

  Potential Economic Impacts in Florida of Increased Imports of Mexican Fruits and Vegetables, June 2019, Alan Hodges, Christa Court, Rodney Clouser, Lisa House, Zhengfei Guan, Feng Wu, Sheng Li, and Tianyuan Luo

  Economic Contributions of Urban Forestry in Florida in 2017, April 2019, Alan W. Hodges and Christa D. Court

  Contributions of Beef and Dairy Cattle and Allied Industries in Florida in 2017, March 2019, Alan W. Hodges, Christa D. Court, Mohammad Rahmani, Caleb A. Stair

  Economic Contributions of Florida Citrus Industry in 2016-2017, December 2018, Christa D. Court, Alan W. Hodges, Caleb Stair, and Mohammad Rahmani

  Economic Contributions of Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Food Industries in Florida in 2016, August 2018, Christa D. Court, Alan W. Hodges, Mohammad Rahmani

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  Local Economic Impacts

  Potential Economic Impacts of the Proposed Alachua County U.S. Army Reserve Equipment Concentration Site (ECS), May 2020, Christa D. Court and Joao-Pedro Ferreira

  Economic Contributions of the University of Florida and Related Entities in 2017-18, April 2019, Alan W. Hodges, Caleb A. Stair, and Christa D. Court

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  Marine Economics & Aquaculture

  Economic Contributions of U.S. Seafood Imports – a value chain perspective , June 2022, Joao Ferreira, Taryn Garlock, Christa D. Court, James L. Anderson, Frank Asche, Kelsey McDaid, Xiaohui Qiao, and Bixuan Yang. 

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  Education & Healthcare

  Economic Contributions of Florida Hospitals in 2021, February 2023, Alan W. Hodges and Christa D. Court

  Economic Contributions of University of Florida Health in Jacksonville, 2017-2018, October 2019, Christa D. Court, Alan W. Hodges, and Caleb A. Stair

  Economic Contributions of the University of Florida and Related Entities in 2017-18, April 2019, Alan W. Hodges, Caleb A. Stair, and Christa D. Court

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  Environment & Ecosystems

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  Tourism

  Economic Assessment of the Scenic Sumter Heritage Byway in Sumter County, Florida, January 2019, Alan W. Hodges and Christa D. Court.

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  Other

• Recent Academic Publications

  Agriculture & Natural Resources (incl. Animal Production, Horticulture)

  Cruz, L. ; Ramos, P. ; Barata, E. ; Ferreira , J. (2021). The forestry products value chain and the costs of reshaping it: Multi-regional impacts of shrinking the pulp and paper industries in Portugal. Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research.

  Economic Contributions of the Green Industry in the United States in 2018. Charles R. Hall, Alan W. Hodges, Hayk Khachatryan, and Marco A. Palma. Journal of Environmental Horticulture (2020) 38 (3): 73–79, https://doi.org/10.24266/0738-2898-38.3.73

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  Local Economic Impacts

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  Marine Economics & Aquaculture

  Evaluating the regional economic contributions of U.S. aquaculture: Case study of Florida’s shellfish aquaculture industry.  Botta, R., Court, C., Ropicki, A., Camp, E.V. 2021

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  Education & Healthcare

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  Environment & Ecosystems

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  Tourism

  The rise of the sharing economy: Guesthouse boom and the crowding-out effects of tourism in Lisbon. Tourism Economics. Ferreira J-P, Ramos PN, Lahr ML. 2020 

  Economic impacts of cancelled recreational trips to Northwest Florida after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Court, C. D., A. W. Hodges, R. L. Clouser, and S. L. Larkin. 2017

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  Other

  Book Review - Miller, R. and Blair, P. (2009) Input-Output Analysis: Foundations and Extensions, Second Edition, Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9780521517133. Christa Court, Robert Botta, Mengming Li, João-Pedro Ferreira. 2020

  Working Together as Regional Scientists: A Forward-Looking Retrospective. Court, Christa. 2020.

  Intraregional trade shares for goods‐producing industries: RPC esimates using EU data. Lahr, ML, Ferreira, JP, Többen, JR. 2020

  A Role for Regional Science in Analyzing Water Issues. Court, C. D. and E. Erfanian. 2019

  Alonso Meets Hansen: Rent Determinants and Threshold Effects. Ferreira, João & Baetas da Silva, Nuno & Fernández Vázquez, Esteban. 2021.

  A Reconnaissance Through the History of Shift-Share Analysis. Lahr M.L., Ferreira J.P. 2021. 

  The economic value for cycling – a methodological assessment for Starter Cities. Ferreira, J.-P, Isidoro, C., Moura Sá, F., Mota, J.-C. 2020.

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  Archive

  Research Publication Archive