Texas
How Political Alignment Between Cities and Governors Shapes Municipal Borrowing Costs
In new research, Ramona Dagostino and Anya Nakhmurina discuss how political misalignment between state governors and city leadership can affect how cities access financing, particularly in municipal bond pricing and crisis prevention investment.
What Texas Never Learned From the California Energy Crisis
The parallels between today's Texas energy market and California's energy market in the early 2000s are striking. Texas should learn from California's bitter experience...
What Are They Hiding? What Firms Don’t Want Us to Know About Their Economic Development Incentives
State and local governments offer firms all kinds of incentives in hopes of spurring local economic development. New research finds that a specific group...
The Texas Power Failure: How One Market Model Discovered Its Natural Limits
Relying on marginal market prices to provide the incentives for the production and delivery of electricity means that all of the biophysical things enrolled...
