Global Commerce

Global Commerce: Tennessee and the International Economy, produced by the Business and Economic Research Center, received the 2013 award of excellence in electronic publications from the Association for Business and Economic Research. The quarterly online newsletter about Tennessee's exporting activity is written by Steven Livingston and designed and edited by Sally Ham Govan.

Comparison of Tennesseans' Income Based on Education

How much difference does a college degree make to an average Tennessean's income? Find out in this table: American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates [pdf] .

It's just one of many articles in Tennessee's Business: Job Creation [contents].

Features include:

• "Business Creations and Expansions, 2009,"
  an overview of the latest data and comparison to the 2001-2002 recession, by Tennessee State Data Center Director Randy Gustafson
• "Job Creation: What Really Works?"
  by David Hayes, MTSU Department of Economics and Finance adjunct faculty and Tennessee Workforce Development Board member

and more:

• Tennessee State Small Business Development Center's
  2011 results
• Tennessee green investments,
  an economic impact study on selected summarized by BERC Associate Director Murat Arik
• Tracking the state's economic recovery
  by staff of MTSU's Business and Economic Research Center and the Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
• State job creation initiatives, an overview

plus:

• American Community Survey 1-year employment estimates in pdf format

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Tennessee Housing Market: 1st Qtr 2011

http://www.mtsu.edu/~berc/housingbrief.html  

Tennessee Housing Market: 1st Qtr 2011

• marginal improvement
• home sales up
• construction stable
• prices continued to drop
• 4Q 2010 numbers revised

Global Commerce 4th Quarter 2010

http://www.mtsu.edu/~berc/globalcommerce.html

"Tennessee—Significant Links to the Middle East?"
How significant are the countries of the Arabian world to Tennessee and its economy? What might be the economic fallout of the dramatic events we are witnessing? [more]

Global Commerce

http://www.mtsu.edu/~berc/globalcommerce.html

Tennessee and Free Trade Agreements

The United States recently announced a free trade agreement with South Korea, the largest such agreement since the NAFTA. In this issue, we look at the "early returns" on the impact of FTAs on Tennessee's trade. [newsletter]

Tennessee Housing Market 3rd Quarter

Tennessee's economy improved somewhat, as employment gains pushed the unemployment rate down to 9.6% from 10.3% in the 2nd quarter. Unemployment remains high: 16th highest among the states.

http://www.mtsu.edu/~berc/housingbrief.html

Tennessee's Business: Green Issue

A look at:

• Green Jobs
• Green Businesses
• Energy Efficiency Loans
• Green Investment
• Renewable Energy
• Green Legislation

(html, pdf, table of contents)

http://www.mtsu.edu/~berc/tennbusiness.html

Global Commerce

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Can Tennessee Double Its Exports in 5 Years?
Steven Livingston writes: "The problem with reporting export figures for this quarter is monotony. Everything grew, and by a lot. It was the best 2nd quarter in the state's history."
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