Watch April 2022 Webinar: Analyzing and Upgrading your County’s Economy: Greg Miller, Libby Christensen, Stephan Weiler
Watch Webinar: Colorado Ag Workers' Rights Rule Making: An Overview of Key Issues and Resources in the 2021 Policy Process
Watch Webinar: Innovation and Resiliency in the COVID Era
Webinars
Rapid Response Webinars Series
Recent REDI Reports
- August 2022: Understanding Commuting Flows in Larimer County and Fort Collins
by Gregory Miller - July 2022: Geographic and Racial Variations in Mortgage Loan-to-Value Ratios
by Nicholas Kacher - June 2022: Evaluating Housing Affordability in Fort Collins
by Ryan DeFilippi, Kendall Stephenson, and Greg Miller - April 2022: The Changing Face of Food Retailing: Growth in Online Platforms during COVID
by Dawn Thilmany, Hailey Edmondson, and MacKenzie Gill - February 2022: The State of Colorado Labor Unions: Patterns Across Time and Space, by Zachary Schaller and Sarah Thomaz
- December 2021: Fishers Peak State Park: Evaluating a New Natural Amenity in Southern Colorado, by Skyler Schuck and Josh Rudd
- October 2021: Exploring Economic Empowerment and Marginalization using Data from Developing Countries, by Alexandra Bernasek, Niroj Bhattarai, Brenden Brundage, Ray Miller, Lackson Mudenda, Anh Nguyen, Wisnu Nugroho, Anita Alves Pena, Ashish Sedai, Prasiddha Shakya, and Arisa Thongngam
- August 2021: Findings from the Colorado Agricultural Labor Survey for Employers, by Alexandra E. Hill and Adrian Card
- June 2021: Colorado’s Unemployment Insurance Experience: 1980-2020, by Kendall Stephenson
- April 2021: Gendered Difference in Student Completion due to COVID-19, by Niroj Bhattarai and Jaren Seid
- February 2021: New Insights into the Geography of Female Entrepreneurship, by Nicholas Kacher and Austin Landini
- December 2020: The Economic Contribution of Nourish Colorado’s Fruit and Vegetable Incentive Program, by Erin Love, Allie Bauman, Dawn Thilmany, and Becca B.R. Jablonski
- October 2020: Alternative methods for substantiating payments for conservation easements in Colorado, by Andrew Seidl, Rebecca Hill and Lauren Mangus
- August 2020: The migration of venture-capital funded startups from regional entrepreneurial ecosystems: Comparing Colorado’s Front Range and California’s Silicon Valley, by Per Hulthen and Gregory Graff
- June 2020: Economic impact of future federal conservation easement investments on (rural) Colorado communities, by Andrew Seidl, Professor, CSU
- May 2020: The Impact of the CARES Act on Colorado Unemployment Benefits,by Gregory R. Miller, CFA
- April 2020: Gendered Impact of COVID-19 in Colorado: Health and Economic Risks,by Diksha Arora, Alexandra Bernasek, Teresa Perry, and Elissa Braunstein
- February 2020: Impact of Open Educational Resources on Student Performance: A Comparative Study, by Niroj Bhattarai and Jaren Seid
- December 2019: The Tale of Two Food Supply Chains: Exploring the Emerging Bimodal Structure of U.S. Food and Beverage Manufacturing, by Dawn Thilmany, Marcelo Castillo and Sarah A. Low
Popular Press Featuring REDI Contributors
Pay isn't keeping up with inflation, survey finds
CSU Economics Professor Stephan Weiler KNUS interview on inflation
CSU Economics Professor Stephan Weiler discusses the Jobs report for June
CSU Economics Professor Stephan Weiler discusses the pending recession
What’s Working | Median home values haven’t fallen in Colorado, but list prices for a new house have
Denver-area inflation rate drops for the first time in 18 months
CSU Economist Stephan Weiler on Current State of Inflation in CO
What’s Working | Median home values haven’t fallen in Colorado, but list prices for a new house have
CSU Economics Professor Stephan Weiler discusses elevated inflation numbers
CSU Economist Stephan Weiler on Current State of Inflation in CO
Denver-area inflation rate drops for the first time in 18 months
‘Impacts What We Can Spend’: Drivers In Colorado Concerned About Rising Gas Prices
Xcel customers see higher utility bills this winter
Supply chain issues could impact rebuilding after Marshall Fire
Supply and labor shortages double the time it’ll take to rebuild homes lost in the Marshall fire
Stephan Weiler CSU Econ on Inflation
Pocast Episode
Pocast Episode
Episode 3: How Austin’s housing market helped build the music scene, and how it could destroy it
Pocast Episode
Bonus! Music Scenes as Economic Clusters
Sewer waste management using artificial intelligence to speed up the maintenance process
We’re Not New York, LA or Nashville. So What Kind of Music City is Austin? Part 1: Dayglow
Colorado State University forms labor issues group in response to new bill
How Biden's Build Back Better plan could help with housing in Colorado
Give the People What They Clearly Need: More National Parks
Small businesses struggle to hire even with improving unemployment rate
These are the industries where jobs still haven't returned
KUNC Audio and Article: The Story Behind Colorado's Pandemic Entrepreneurs
Video: SXSW 2021 | National Research on Independent Venues Kick Off
State Lawmakers Revive Kentucky’s Film Tax Credit
How the Feds Became the Leading Patrons of the Arts
Colorado ranchers already had beef with Jared Polis. Then came “MeatOut Day.”
Colorado Humanities kicks off conversation series on ‘Change in Rural Colorado’
Prison for the Poor, Anita Alves Pena discusses her research into the relationship between mass incarceration and inequality through stratification economics. Pena’s research finds that areas with higher income inequality have higher rates of incarceration and that these rates vary when broken down by racial and ethnic groups.
Report Finds Economic Mobility Remains Unattainable for Many Coloradans
Opinion: The American dream will fade without public investment in health, education
New Report: Economic Mobility for Colorado’s Low-Income Families(Press Release)
Colorado’s stagnant budget isn’t helping the shrinking middle class, report finds
Colorado’s stagnant budget isn’t helping the shrinking middle class, report finds
Artists want to turn the Sunday after Thanksgiving into Black Friday for art
The other side of the pandemic may look very different for big-box restaurant chains
Eagle County economic outlook remains murky
Kentucky Arts Groups Try Their Hand At Drive-In Style Shows In Parking Lots
Prices of several grocery store items decline — others remain high - Featuring Dawn Thilmany
One Lost Weekend - New York Times
FIELD WORK Colorado farmers and ranchers adapt to uncertainties
COVID crisis: We need all hands on deck to save America's arts and culture economy
Report: Virus wiped out 29,840 jobs, years of growth
Economic recovery amid the COVID-19 pandemic may come from an unlikely place — dentist offices
July 2020: Farms Are Becoming Popular Staycation Destinations
July 2020: YOUNG CONSUMERS MIGHT BE MORE CAUTIOUS IN THE FUTURE
July 2020: COVID MIGHT PROVIDE AGRITOURISM WITH A BOUNCE
July 2020: CONSUMER SPENDING REMAINS UNCERTAIN AMID COVID-19
May 2020: Many will earn more on benefits than on the job, by Aldo Svaldi
December 2019: A Colorado Valley Built a Post-Coal Economy. Now the BLM Is Pushing Drilling, by Jason Plautz
May 2019: Colorado's Bus Driver Shortage. Part 1: The Problem, by Andy Bosselman in StreetsBlog Denver, featuring Stephan Weiler
February 2019: JPMorgan Leads Banks’ Flight from Poor Neighborhoods, by Michelle Davis in Bloomberg Business, featuring Stephan Weiler
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As U.S. banks shut branches, JPMorgan leads a shift toward wealthy areas, by Michelle Davis in the Los Angeles Times, featuring Stephan Weiler
February 2019: A Little Country Hospitality, by Marilyn Kennedy Melia in ABA Bank Marketing, featuring Luke Petach and Stephan Weiler
REDI Research Assistant and Economics PhD Candidate Austin Landini won the Western Regional Science Association’s 2022 Tiebout Prize, awarded to the top graduate student paper at the WRSA conference.
Congratulations, Austin!
https://www.wrsaonline.org/newsite/previous-winners/
REDI News
New short-term Colorado forecast finds growth will continue through April 2022
[Watch Webinar] The Economic Impact of COVID-19 on U.S. Food Manufacturers-Tues. March 31, 2020
Finding Economic Connections in the Urban/Rural Divide
THE RHETORIC OF (RE)DEVELOPMENT
by Carol Busch
College of Liberal Arts Enjoys Successful Fulbright Award Season
April 2017 - Getting REDI: New Institute Focuses on Economics of Urban and Rural Areas - by Beth Etter, on CSU SOURCE
April 2017 - CSU Launches Regional Economic Development Institute - by Pat Ferrier, in the Fort Collins Coloradoan
Recent Publications and Presentations
Video Presentation: Exploring Food Supply Chain Disruptions: US and Colorado Perspectives Dawn Thilmany - June 2021
The Colorado On-Demand Economy: Lessons from focus groups
August 2019: 3rd Annual San Luis Valley Economic Summit- presentation by Stephan Weiler
May 2019: Meet Professor Stephan Weiler, Fulbright Distinguished Research Chair at the University of Birmingham, three-part blog on the City-REDI Blog
May 2019: Place Matters: Unlocking the Growing Global Puzzle of Inequality - lecture by Stephan Weiler at the University of Birmingham
April 2019: Meet Professor Stephan Weiler, Fulbright Distinguished Research Chair at the University of Birmingham, on the City-REDI Blog
April 2019: NAWS at 30, at the UC Davis Gifford Center for Population Studies, featuring Anita Alves Pena
February 2019: Inward Investment in the Birmingham City Region, on the City-REDI Blog
February 2019: Where Europe Would Be Hurt Most by a No-Deal Brexit, featuring partner institute research, by Allison McCann, Milan Schreuer, and Amie Tsang, in the New York Times
February 2019: City-REDI launches the West Midlands Economic Monitor, on the City-REDI Blog
