danmartin@oxfordeconomics
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Data center electricity demand
Hi. I'm looking at the impact of a data center (NAICS 518210; IMPLAN 436). According to the commodity demand balance sheet for this industry (at the national level in 2019), spending on electricity...
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Matching tourism spend categories
Hi. I'm doing an analysis which I imagine is pretty common: looking at the impact of tourism spending in a region. I have broad categories of spend data, such as lodging, food, souvenirs, transport...
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Cable franchise fees in SL tax impacts?
Hi. I'm running an impact for a cable company (wired telecom, sector 427). When running an industry change impact, are franchise fees paid to local governments included in the state & local tax imp...
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Understanding commuters in the SAM
Hi. I'm trying to better understanding how IMPLAN handles earnings by commuters. For concreteness, I'm looking at three models (all 2015): a national model, a model consisting of the District of Co...
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Differences between PCE and household consumption
Could you comment on the sources of differences between the BEA's Personal Consumption Expenditures data and the Household purchases in the national IMPLAN model? For example, I see that PCE for 20...
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Value added by brokerages
Hi. I'm looking at the economic impact of brokerage services (sector 435) in a number of states. To pick an extreme example, let's look at Mississippi. I'm using the 2014 data. For every $100 of r...
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Very high income individuals and induced impacts
Do you have any guidance on how to handle a labor income change when a significant fraction of the income is going to a small number of high-income individuals. As a hypothetical, imagine a new fac...
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Domestic exports and total imports
I'm trying an experiment dividing the country into two regions, one large and one small. (I'm using the 2013 data and the online tool.) I'm looking at the commodity trade data in the two regions. ...
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National numbers vs. totals of states
Could you comment on the extent to which variables in the state models should total to the values in the national model and why they might not? I totaled household demand in the Industry Accounts (...
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High overall employment numbers
My apologies if this is a well-trodden topic (I searched around a bit for an existing thread and didn't see one), but could you comment on the overall US employment number in 2010 in IMPLAN being 1...