Journal Article
Art's economic power in New England
Gill, Kathleen (2001-04)
Communities and Banking , Issue Spr , Pages 10-14

Report
The supply of permanent supportive housing in Massachusetts: comparing availability to the chronic homeless population
Chiumenti, Nicholas (2018-09-01)
Permanent supportive housing (PSH) has become an important resource for Massachusetts service providers working to address chronic homelessness in the state. Nationally, and in the Commonwealth, the number of PSH beds available for homeless individuals and families now exceeds the amount of emergency shelter beds and other, non-permanent, housing options. While PSH is acknowledged as an important tool, there has been little research into the inventory level needed to effectively house the state?s current chronic homeless population, and what, if any, local shortages exist. This report uses ...
New England Public Policy Center Policy Reports , Paper 18-2

Journal Article
Financing capital expenditures in Massachusetts
Munnell, Alicia H.; Cook, Leah M. (1991-03)
Spending on capital projects in Massachusetts has not contributed in any significant fashion to the states budget crisis. During the 1980s the state probably spent too little, rather than too much, on public infrastructure. The states nationwide are caught between the increased requirements of localities and decreased funding from the federal government. The Massachusetts situation is particularly troublesome. The state spent most of the 1980s embroiled in conflict with the Administration over federal funding for the Central Artery Depression! Third Harbor Tunnel project. ; The article ...
New England Economic Review , Issue Mar , Pages 52-79

Report
Massachusetts in the 1990's: the role of state government
Browne, Lynn E.; Munnell, Alicia H. (1990)
Research Report , Paper 72

Journal Article
Shifting property tax burdens in Massachusetts
Bradbury, Katharine L. (1988-09)
New England Economic Review , Issue Sep , Pages 36-48

Journal Article
The real estate cycle and the economy: consequences of the Massachusetts boom of 1984-87
Case, Karl E. (1991-09)
The economy of Massachusetts is in a deep recession. What makes the downturn all the more painful is that it comes on the heels of a period of unprecedented prosperity. What happened? How could a state go from having the lowest unemployment rate in the United States to having the second highest in the space of less than four years? ; Some claim that the current recession is a natural and inevitable downturn after a prolonged expansion and that the region soon will return to a reasonable growth path. Others claim that the state is likely to experience a prolonged period of decline. The thesis ...
New England Economic Review , Issue Sep , Pages 37-46

Working Paper
Restraining the Leviathan: property tax limitations in Massachusetts
Elmendorf, Douglas W.; Cutler, David M.; Zeckhauser, Richard (1997)
We examine the effects of Proposition 2-1/2--a property tax limitation law approved by Massachusetts voters in 1980--and assess voter satisfaction with these effects. We find that the proposition had a smaller effect on local revenues and spending than expected, as a result of both amendments to the law and a strong economy. Voters in 1980 believed there was significant waste in local government, partly because of an inability to monitor local officials. Proposition 2-1/2 curbed these agency losses, but direct local override votes and municipal expenditure patterns imply that the proposition ...
Finance and Economics Discussion Series , Paper 1997-47

Journal Article
Job creation and destruction in Massachusetts: gross flows among industries
Bradbury, Katharine L. (1999-09)
The Massachusetts economy has experienced wide swings in employment in the 1990s, losing over 10 percent of existing jobs in the 1990-91 recession (which began locally in 1989) and not surpassing its pre-recession job peak until early 1998. Within individual sectors of the economy, the losses and gains have been even greater, with many manufacturing industries losing jobs almost nonstop while some non-manufacturing industries have expanded markedly. This article examines these employment swings and attempts to better understand their dynamic underpinnings by disaggregating them into the ...
New England Economic Review , Issue Sep , Pages 33-52

Journal Article
Rating Massachusetts' tax competitiveness
Tannenwald, Robert (1987-11)
New England Economic Review , Issue Nov , Pages 33-45

Journal Article
Should Massachusetts reform its bank tax?
Tannenwald, Robert (1988-09)
New England Economic Review , Issue Sep , Pages 23-35