http://www.ic2.utexas.edu/blog Voices from the IC² Institute Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:23:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When only 15% of the 2800 new jobs created by a huge $1.5 billion West Texas wind farm development will be based in the U.S., something is wrong, especially because U.S. taxpayers may provide $450 million of the project's costs via the federal stimulus program.  That's a taxpayer investment of over $1 million per ... http://www.ic2.utexas.edu/blog/?p=100 The lead above-the-fold story in today's Wall Street Journal heralds the possible end to our recession with the release of Q3 '09 GDP figures.  The 3.5% annual rate of expansion in the third quarter halts four straight quarters of decline during a recession that officially began in December 2007.  But what ... http://www.ic2.utexas.edu/blog/?p=91 What effect might national healthcare reform have on Texas-Mexico border communities?  What reform initiatives to improve healthcare outcomes along the border should be included in the healthcare reform debate?  A new article in Texas Business Review by Nuria Homedes and Antonio Ugalde looks at healthcare along the border from a ... http://www.ic2.utexas.edu/blog/?p=86 One hundred economists spent 3 days discussing, debating, and diciphering local and national economic trends during the 63rd annual conference of the Association for University Business and Economic Research.  Keynote speaker David Altig, director of research at the Atlanta Fed, cautioned the group during his address that the economy was far ... http://www.ic2.utexas.edu/blog/?p=84 What factors influence a high school senior's decision to go to college? New survey research, combined with Texas Workforce Commission data on employment, seeks to identify factors that heavily influence higher ed and workforce outcomes among Central Texas high school graduates. In the August issue of Texas Business Review, Deanna ... http://www.ic2.utexas.edu/blog/?p=69 The ICTPI 2009 conference in Porto, Portugal, just concluded. I presented a paper during the "New Frontiers in Science and Technology" session. My presentation was entitled "Mechanism of Corporate Environmental Management: Empirical Study of Japanese and U.S. Firms." I talked about the relationship between external pressure about environmental activity and corporate  environmental management strategy.  I ... http://www.ic2.utexas.edu/blog/?p=59 As the debate goes on in Texas over whether to continue to finance road construction with tolls, there is new evidence that increasing tolls charged to cross the bridges between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez does not affect traffic volumes.  With such inelastic demand for border crossings by foot, car, or truck, local ... http://www.ic2.utexas.edu/blog/?p=51 Hello, everybody! My name is Hidemichi Fujii. I am an IC2 Visiting Scholar from Hiroshima,  Japan, and I am spending the year in Austin working on a project on environmental management and economic performance, especially of industrial firms in Japan, the U.S., Europe, and China. I will attend the  12th International ... http://www.ic2.utexas.edu/blog/?p=41 Already issues! Two of my students have been helping me with some of the logistics. We wanted to meet with NGO officials to talk to them about poverty reduction, but no one will meet with us. We even tried some of our guanxi but were told that ... http://www.ic2.utexas.edu/blog/?p=33 Welcome to the new IC2 Blog, intended to give program managers, researchers, visiting scholars, and staff at the Institute a chance to share their current ideas and research. I wanted to use my first posting to point toward a couple of the most recent reports and studies from the Bureau of ... http://www.ic2.utexas.edu/blog/?p=26