An Economic Report to the Governor of the State of Tennessee, 2016
Authors:
Matthew N. Murray, William F. Fox, Celeste K. Carruthers, Lawrence M. Kessler, Vickie C. Cunningham, Mary Elizabeth Glenn
Publication Date: January 1, 2016
This 2016 volume of An Economic Report to the Governor of the State of Tennessee is the 40th in a series of annual reports compiled in response to requests by state government officials for assistance in achieving greater interdepartmental consistency in planning and budgeting efforts sensitive to the overall economic environment. Both short-term, or business cycle-sensitive forecasts, and longer-term, or trend forecasts, are provided in this report. Tennessee forecasts, current as of January 2016, are based on an array of assumptions, particularly at the national level, which are described in Chapter One. Chapter Two details evaluations for major sectors of the Tennessee economy, with an agriculture section provided by The Agri-Industry Modeling and Analysis Group at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture. Chapter Three discusses Tennessee’s role in the international economy and presents the long-run outlook and forecast for the state. Chapter Four presents the background, early results, and challenges of Tennessee’s Drive to 55 program. The primary purpose of this annual volume—published, distributed, and financed through the Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration, Tennessee Department of Economic and
Community Development, the Tennessee Department of Revenue, the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development, and the Appalachian Regional Commission—is to provide wide public dissemination of the most-current possible economic analysis to planners and decision-makers in the public and private sectors.