OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Economic Development Quarterly is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Do Smart Cities Technologies Contribute to Local Economic Development?	20
A Regional Analysis of the Relationship Between Housing Affordability and Business Growth	18
Book Review: The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time by J. McKelvey	18
Beyond Local and Traded: Evidence for a Third Industry Market Area Type and Implications for Regional Economic Development	14
Book Review: 21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19 by Ben S. Bernanke	13
COVID-19, the New Urban Crisis, and Cities: How COVID-19 Compounds the Influence of Economic Segregation and Inequality on Metropolitan Economic Performance	11
Policy Versus Luck in Pittsburgh and Cleveland’s Economies	10
The Pittsburgh Transition: Not Quite So Simple	9
The Economic Development Potential of Minority-Owned Businesses	8
What Moves Physicians to Work in Rural Areas? An In-Depth Examination of Physician Practice Location Decisions	7
What Is Economic Development? And What Is the Job of an Economic Development Professional?	7
Banking for the Other Half: The Factors That Explain Banking Desert Formation	7
The Clean Air Act and Local Employment Base Sensitivity	6
Day-Labor Worker Centers: Advancing New Models of Equity and Inclusion in the Informal Economy	6
Improving the U.S. Workforce System by Transforming its Performance Measurement System into an Intelligent Information System	5
How Does Innovation-Collaboration Network Structure Influence Regional Economic Resilience?	5
A Middle Model of Economic Development? Revisiting the Economic Geography of Middle-Wage Occupations in the United States	5
Book Review: Empirical Regional Economics: Economic Base Theory, Models, and Applications by Richard S Conway Jr	5
Impact of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender on the SBA Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Loan Amounts	4
Do Higher Land Costs for New Single-Family Housing Inhibit Economic Activity in U.S. Metropolitan Areas?	4
Come Together, But How? Zooming Into Economic Development Collaboration Between State and Local Governments, and Nongovernmental Organizations	4
Local Economic Development Policies and Business Activity: Dynamic Panel Data Analysis of All County Governments in the State of Georgia	4
Toward a More Complete and Nuanced Examination of Ohio and Pennsylvania’s 1980s Technology-Based Economic Development Strategies	4
Why Are Unemployment Insurance Claims So Low?	4
A Data-Driven Algorithm to Redefine the U.S. Rural Landscape: Affinity Propagation as a Mixed-Data/Mixed-Method Tool	3

Toward a New Rural Typology: Mapping Resources, Opportunities, and Challenges	3
Local Employment Impacts of Connectivity to Regional Economies: The Role of Industry Clusters in Bridging the Urban-Rural Divide	3
An Introduction to the Special Issue	3
The Impact of Tax Increment Financing on Business Entries and Exits in Iowa	3
Flying Blind on Job Creation Policies? A Case Study of California	3
Applied Regional Economic Research Can Improve Development Strategies and Drive Better Outcomes	3
The Consensus (?) on Public Spending on Professional Sports Facilities	2
Book Review: A Review of “The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies” by Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington	2
Policy, Empirical Analysis, and Equity: Challenges for Research	2
Fixing Work, and Moving Beyond It	2
Socioeconomic and Environmental Indicators for Rural Communities: Bridging the Scholarly and Practice Gap	2
Is COVID-19 Causing More Business Closures in Poor and Minority Neighborhoods?	2
Creating an Effective Workforce Program Takes a Lot of Work and a Long-Term Commitment	2
The Racial and Spatial Impacts of the Paycheck Protection Program	2
Book Review: Preserving the Vanishing City: Historic Preservation amid Urban Decline in Cleveland by Stephanie Ryberg-Webster	1
How are Economic Development Districts Riding the Waves of Economic Development Strategies?	1
Assessing the Effects of Place-Based Policy on Spatial Inequality and the Distribution of Household Income: Evidence from Tax Increment Financing	1
Bringing Health Care to Appalachia: The Long-Run Impact of a Rural Health Care System	1
Place-Based Small Business Support and its Implications for Neighborhood Revitalization	1
Identifying and Developing the Battery Manufacturing Workforce: A Regional Analysis of Supply–Demand of Skilled Workers	1
Would Pittsburgh Have Transformed Without State Intervention? A Response to Comments	1
Collaboration and Public Participation for Municipal Growth in Land Economic Development Projects	1
Do Restrictive Land Use Regulations Make Housing More Expensive Everywhere?	1
Introduction to the Second Special Issue on Inclusive Economic Development: Promoting Inclusive Economic Growth and Development	1
Growth in Commuting Patterns and Their Impacts on Rural Workforce and Economic Development	1
Introduction to the Special Issue on Inclusive Economic Development: Paycheck Protection Program	1
Book Review: Agile Against Lean. An Inquiry into the Production System of Hyundai Motor by Hyung Je Jo, Jun Ho Jong, & Chulsik Kim	1
Book Review: Putting Skill to Work: How to Create Good Jobs in Uncertain Times by Nichola Lowe	1
Can Targeted Government Investment in Rural Establishments Induce Innovative Activity?	1
Not All High-Growth Firms Are Alike: Capturing and Tagging Ohio’s Gazelles	1
Boon or Burden? Evaluating the Competing Effects of House-Price Shocks on Regional Entrepreneurship	1
Ready for a Close-Up: The Effect of Tax Incentives on Film Production in California	1
What We Know About Registered Apprenticeship: A Systematic Review and Synthesis of 30 Years of Empirical Research	1
Predictive Analytics Supporting Labor Market Success: A Career Explorer for Job Seekers and Workforce Professionals in Michigan	1
Historical Housing Discrimination, Redlining, and the Contemporary Distribution of Local Economic Development Funding: The Case of Chicago	1
Book Review: Will the gig economy prevail? by Colin Crouch	0
Taxes and Economic Development: An Update on the State of the Economics Literature	0
Building Representative State Groupings in an Input-Output Model for the Development of an Economic Impact Calculator for Nutrition Incentive Programs	0
What Motivates Employer Engagement? Promoting Youth Career Embeddedness in Two Tennessee Regions	0
Too Cold to Venture There? January Temperature and Immigrant Self-Employment Across the United States	0
Introduction to the Special Issue on Rural Economic Development: New Research Insights and how the COVID-19 Pandemic may Impact Future Investment Strategies	0
Book Review: Engaging Place, Engaging Practices: Urban History and Campus-Community Partnerships by Bachin, Robin F. and Howard, Amy L. (eds)	0
Remembering our Friend and Colleague, Larry Ledebur	0
Book Review: The Mismeasure of Progress: Economic Growth and its Critics by S. Macekura	0
Linking People’s Mobility and Place Livability: Implications for Rural Communities	0
An Examination of the Relationship Between Local Tax Incentives and Diversification of the Local Economic Base	0
Measuring What Matters in Business Support Programs	0
The Economic Impact of Small Colleges on Local Economies: A Guide to Attainable Data and Best Practices	0
The Urban–Rural Divide: The Effects of the Small Business Innovation Research Program in Small and Nonmetro Counties	0
Does Restricting the Entry of Formula Businesses Help Mom-and-Pop Stores? The Case of Small American Towns With Unique Community Character	0

Challenges to Identifying Economic Development Impacts	0
Land-Use Regulations and Urban Growth of African Americans	0
The Impact of New Jersey's Urban Enterprise Zones on Local Employment: A Synthetic Control Approach	0
Innovation Districts and Community Building: An Effective Strategy for Community Economic Development?	0
Industrial Policy and Local Economic Transformation: Evidence From the U.S. Rust Belt	0
Big Tech on the Block: Examining the Impact of Tech Campuses on Local Housing Markets in the San Francisco Bay Area	0
A Threshold Analysis of the Effect of House Prices on U.S. Local Labor Markets	0
Centering Work: Integration and Diffusion of Workforce Development Within the U.S. Manufacturing Extension Network	0
State-Level Policies to Incentivize Workplace Learning: Impacts of a California Publicly Funded Employee Training Program	0
Employing Synthetic Control Method to Examine Whether State Corporate Tax Rate Reductions Grow Manufacturing Employment	0
Ohio's Regional Manufacturing Workforce Partnerships: Governing a Common Pool Resource	0
Book Review: How to Engage Policy Makers with Your Research by Vorley, T., Rahman, S. A., Tuckerman, L., & Wallace, P. (eds)	0
Book Review: Clean Air and Good Jobs: U.S. Labor and the Struggle for Climate Justice by Todd E. Vachon	0
Book Review: Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation by Edward Glaeser and David Cutler	0
The Impact of a State-Level, Place-Based Economic Development Program: A Difference-in-Differences Approach	0
Credit Availability for Minority Business Owners in an Evolving Credit Environment	0
Book Review: Vibrant Virginia: Engaging the commonwealth to expand economic vitality by Margaret Cowell and Sarah Lyon Hill, (eds)	0
Data on Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC)-Owned Businesses: What's Out There and What Can Be Done?	0
Book Review: Invention, Innovation and U.S. Federal Laboratories	0
Suggestions for Future Research in the Area of Workforce Development Systems and Regional Economic Development in the United States	0
Understanding Economic Development Organization Efforts to Advance Inclusive Economic Recovery in Virginia	0
What is Inclusionary Economic Development—What if Employees Mattered?	0
Understanding Divergence in the Performance of Central Business District Economies Among U.S. Metropolitan Regions, 1995–2019	0
The Value of Rural and Urban Public Infrastructure	0
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Economic Development Policy	0
Empirical Evidence on the Economic Impacts of Hotel Taxes	0
Response to Berglund Letter Regarding “Industrial Policy and Local Economic Transformation: Evidence from the Rust Belt”	0
The Evolution and Landscape of Under-Resourced Communities in U.S. Metropolitan Areas	0
Banking Deserts and the Paycheck Protection Program	0
Key Research and Policy Questions in Economic Development and Workforce Development	0
Can we “Claim” the Workforce? A Labor-Focused Agenda for Economic Development in the Face of an Uncertain Future	0
Can Anyone Learn to Code? A Qualitative Study of Place-Based Information Technology Training Programs	0
The Impact of Main Street Revitalization on the Economic Vitality of Small-Town Business Districts	0
Arts and Cultural Innovation as Small City Economic Development	0
Development Starts With Historical Endowments: Industrial Policy and Leadership Are Catalysts	0
Aerospace Place-Based Policy: The Impact of Boeing on South Carolina's Aerospace Industry	0
Prospects for Growth and Change: U.S. Metro Area Forecasts 2022–2032	0
Bank Types, Inclusivity, and Paycheck Protection Program Lending During COVID-19	0
How Do Employers Belonging to Marginalized Communities Respond to Minimum Wage Increases? The Case of Immigrant-Owned Businesses in Seattle	0
Dissolving Districts: Did Property Values Fall When California Terminated Its Redevelopment Agencies?	0
Diversifying Hawai‘i's Specialized Economy: A Spatial Economic Perspective	0
Can Tax Increment Financing Benefit U.S. Rust Belt Communities?	0
Do Economic Development Tax Abatements Affect School Finances?	0
Seize the Time: Needed Research on Local Economic Development in an Era of Increased Attention to Problems of Place	0
COVID-19-Induced Automation: An Exploratory Study of Critical Occupations	0
Urban Sprawl and Intergenerational Mobility: City- and Neighborhood-Level Effects of Sprawl	0
Rethinking the Urban–Rural Divide: Economic Growth in America's Heartland	0
Book Review:Handbook of Cities and Networks. Research Handbooks in Urban Studiesby Neal, Z. & Rozenblat, C. (Eds.)	0
Proceedings From the Conference on the Impact of Housing Affordability on Economic Development and Regional Labor Markets	0