During the 1990s, Section 8 vouchers were touted by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as the way to provide greater housing choice for the poor while deconcentrating them. Toward the end of the 1990s however evidence mounted that the voucher system was not...

Students and close colleagues offer a collection of papers in memory of Nobel Laureate Wassily Leontief. The first part focuses upon Leontief as a person and scholar as well as his personal contributions to economics, while the second part presents the latest theoretical and empirical research...

The number and magnitude of devastating natural and human events make it imperative that we actively and systematically estimate the costs and benefits of policy decisions in affected localities, regions, states, and nations. Such strategic risk management preparedness efforts should forecast...

We develop an interregional computable general equilibrium model to help assess the ex ante impact of transportation infrastructure policies in Egypt. The model is integrated with a GIS network. We illustrate the analytical capabilities of the model by looking at the domestic integration of the...