New Publications from the Bay Area Council Economic Institute

New Publications from the Bay Area Council Economic Institute

The Bay Area Council Economic Institute is pleased to announce the availability of three new studies on state and regional economic issues.

• Surviving the Storm examines the potential economic impact of an extreme storm event in the Bay Area. California’s climate is famously volatile, with winters of devastating floods separated by years of drought. In the wake of recent extreme storm events on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, this report asks whether a similar event could happen here, what parts of the Bay Area would be hardest hit, what the economic costs would be, and what can be done to improve the region’s defenses.
  —March 2015 (PDF: 104 pages, 17.8 MB)
  —Information and developments on potential strategies can be tracked on the new websiteourbayonthebrink.org.
• A Comparative Analysis of the Public and Private Cost of Capital and Market Trends for Public Infrastructure Delivery: When Taxable Infrastructure Financing Beats Tax-Exemptdiscusses key considerations when evaluating the differential cost of using tax-exempt vs. taxable financing when developing public infrastructure projects.
  —March 2015 (PDF: 10 pages, 194 KB)
• 21st Century Infrastructure: Keeping California Connected, Powered, and Competitivefocuses on the transformative potential of state-of-the-art investment in California infrastructure in two key fields: communications and energy. The report examines how improvements in these sectors can support the state’s economic competitiveness and offers policy recommendations for how to facilitate stronger infrastructure investment.
  —April 2015 (PDF: 48 pages, 3.5 MB)

More Bay Area Council Economic Institute publications can be accessed from the Publications List page of the Institute’s website at www.bayareaeconomy.org/publications-list.