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New analysis by 性视界传媒's Center for Business and Economic Research shows that 40 percent of Nevada鈥檚 employer firms were created after COVID-19 as new entrepreneurs reshaped the state鈥檚 recovery.
 

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性视界传媒 Center for Business and Economic Research marked its 50th anniversary and shared forecasts for Nevada, national economies during 2025 Economic Outlook event. 
 

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性视界传媒 economist Stephen Miller on what the sale of Caesars Entertainment & MGM could mean.

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Despite consumer sentiment at record lows, a 性视界传媒 economist projects a rebound in tourism in 2026 with two million more visitors to Las Vegas this year than last.
 

Las Vegas Review Journal

Southern Nevada鈥檚 population growth has slowed considerably in the past few years and is nowhere near pre-pandemic levels of in-migration to the metro region and the state. Population growth projections continue to be downgraded each of the past few years according to 性视界传媒鈥檚 annual study, showing a marked slowdown in both migration from other states, and more notably, international migration to the area.

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High gas prices, fuel prices and news of budget airline Spirit shutting down operations is hitting people across the country and here in our valley.

Las Vegas Sun

A month into the second quarter, a 性视界传媒 survey shows Southern Nevada business leaders entered the period with sharply diminished confidence, as the regional index fell nearly 32 points from the first quarter amid concerns about the national economy, ongoing geopolitical tensions and persistent hiring weakness.

Vegas Business

Nevada led the nation in post-pandemic small business growth, according to new analysis from 性视界传媒鈥檚 Center for Business and Economic Research. Business filings surged in 2020, when Las Vegas casinos shut down for 78 days and reached their highest level since 2006 in 2021.

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Recent Business and Economic Research Accomplishments

Megan R. Griffard (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education), Brian Labus (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Andrew Woods (Center for Business and Economic Research) composed an expert panel for a special collaborative episode of Vegas PBS's Nevada Week and KNPR's State of Nevada that looked back at the COVID-19鈥
Stephen Miller (Economics; Center for Business and Economic Research) had his paper, "Does Debt  Management Matter for  REIT Returns?", with co-authors Zhilan Feng, Clarkson University, and Dogan Tirtiroglu, Ryerson University appear as the lead article in the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, January 2025. Asset and debt鈥
Stephen M. Miller (Business; Center for Business and Economic Research) and Giorgio Canarella, formerly 性视界传媒, along with Mahdi Ghaemi Asl and Mohammad Ghasemi Doudkanlou published an academic paper, "On the speed of adjustment (SOA) toward the target financial leverage ratios and its determinants: Evidence from the capital structure of the鈥
Stephen M. Miller (Economics and Center for Business and Economic Research) and Yevgeniy Teryoshin (Economics) had a paper published by Economics Letters titled "Income Inequality and Monetary Policy Regimes.鈥 This paper reconsiders the possible effects of monetary policy on income inequality to determine whether monetary policy can indirectly鈥
Stephen M. Miller (Economics; Center for Business and Economic Research) presented the outlook for the Southern Nevada economy to the Las Vegas Asian Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, Oct. 26 at the Gold Coast Hotel and Casino. The presentation was followed by a Q&A.
Stephen M. Miller (Economics; Center for Business and Economic Research) published 鈥淓stimating U.S. housing price network connectedness: Evidence from dynamic Elastic Net, Lasso, and ridge vector autoregressive models" in the International Review of Economics and Finance with David Gabauer, Academy of Data Science in Finance, Vienna, Austria and鈥