Older BERC Studies

newer studies

• MTSU Economic Impact (update, 2008)
  Murat Arik and David A. Penn
• Maury County, Tennessee: An Economic Assessment (pdf, 08/19/08; summary)
• Rutherford County Retail and Food Services (07/16/07)
  Current Status, Trends, Supply and Demand Balance Study 
• Higher Education Institutions in Middle Tennessee: Economic Impact (03/30/07)
  For Middle Tennessee Presidents Summit 
  with Belmont and Vanderbilt universities 
  and Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce
• Economic Impact of Career Colleges in Tennessee (Feb. 2007, press release)
  For Tennessee Association of Independent Colleges and Schools
  and Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development
• Healthcare Occupations: Northwest Tennessee Workforce Needs
  (ppt, April 2006) With Dyersburg State Community College
  and Northwest Tennessee Workforce Investment Board
• Nashville MSA Health Care Industry: Scope and Impact on the Regional Economy
  (02/15/06) For Nashville Health Care Council 
• Economic Impact of Bonnaroo Music Festival on Coffee County (11/30/05)
  For Axis Ventures, LLC
• Nashville MSA Today (08/27/04)
  For Nashville Chamber of Commerce
• Arts and the Economy 2003 report (12/08/04) (brochure, 08/03/04)
  With Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission, Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce
• Measuring the Economic Impact of MTSU (study, 06/06/04) 
  (brochure, 07/12/04)
• Nashville MSA Today (04/19/04)
  For Nashville Chamber of Commerce 
• Where Did Tennessee Companies and Jobs Relocate? (04/14/04)
• Board of Regents Economic Analysis, Parts I and II (April 2004)
  Economic Projections, Structural Change, and Workforce Skills/Education Needs: 
  A Comparative Perspective on Tennessee and the United States
• Northwest Tennessee Workforce Study (pdf, ppt, March 2004)
  For Northwest Tennessee Workforce Board and Dyersburg State Community College
• Potential Sources of New Revenue for Rutherford County (December 2003)
  Summary of Options for Additional Revenue
  Total Operating Expenditures and Revenues, FY 1996-2002
• Economic Impact Study of the Arts (1994, 1999, 2003)
  For the Tennessee Arts Commission and Tennesseans for the Arts
• Economic Impact of the Arts (pdf, 01/11/03)
  Study for Tennessee Arts Commission
• Impact of Middle Tennessee State University on the Local Economy (6/19/01)
• Nashville Region Economic Atlas
  For Partnership 2000, and with the Nashville Chamber of Commerce
• Rutherford County 20/20
• Tennessee Business Retention and Expansion Studies
  For chambers of commerce, with SouthCentral Bell
  and Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development