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The Boyd Center produces research identifying national and state economic trends that help inform public policy. Our research and faculty are published in and have served as editorial staff for several journals, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Economic Journal and the Economics of Education Review.
Matthew Harris
In June, there were 415,339 employed people in the Knoxville metropolitan statistical area, about 3,600 fewer than February 2020, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s less than 1% off from pre-pandemic employment levels and well above the pandemic…
Knoxville News Sentinel
LeAnn Luna
“States lost an estimated $11.4 billion in 2012 and those losses are likely to continue to grow rapidly, at least for the next several years.”
William Fox
“There has been an enormous improvement in the job market since the start of the pandemic,” said Bill Fox, director of the Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Tennessee. “But in terms of getting our…
Yahoo News
Marianne Wanamaker
“Employers don’t want to lay off somebody who might in some way be productive,” said Marianne Wanamaker, an economist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Wall Street Journal
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View Our FacultyTennessee Business Leaders Survey: Pandemic-Induced Recession Fading
The economy is improving quickly across Tennessee, according to the most recent survey conducted by the Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research.
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