The decline of a central city often has economic and social implications for an entire region. But where does the solution lie? Are regional approaches to problems concentrated in central cities warranted? Or should we seek local solutions by transforming cities into a group of smaller, more...

A presentation of a theoretical model of regional banking using plausible information asymmetries to explain how local bank capital may affect the funding of regional investments, concluding that regional banking conditions can affect the efficiency of investment and the level of future...

An empirical analysis that links employment changes resulting from the birth, death, expansion, and contraction of various-sized banks with the local economic performance of 217 SMSAs over the 1980-82 and 1984-86 periods. Results suggest that the deaths of midsized banks have a negative, but...

Proponents of such mass transit recite a litany of benefits, but the cost to taxpayers is high.>

In this issue's Community Profile, leaders of this small town in western Tennessee explain why they no longer dream of being a manufacturing center again. Instead, they are focusing their job development efforts on health care, entrepreneurs and tourism. So far, the results are tres bien.