Arizona employment increased by 1.9 percent year-over-year in March, advancing the state into the 8th position in the job creation rankings. Last year at this time, the Grand Canyon State ranked 36th.

With inflation-adjusted gas prices as high as they’ve ever been, why aren’t we hearing more about pocketbook pain? Robert Mittelstaedt, dean of the W. P. Carey School of Business looked at the factors affecting gas prices and the ways we’ve responded.

The “2011 Metro-Phoenix Business Study: New Strategies for Success,” commissioned by SRP paints a community that fought hard to survive the recession, but is now cautiously optimistic about the future. All would like to return to pre-recession conditions, but the downturn has left its mark.

A sharp surge in inventories helped U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grow by 3.0 percent in the final quarter of 2011, according to the latest figures from the U. S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

When the Arizona economy went into a severe downturn at the end of 2007, mounting job losses, rising foreclosures and increases in unemployment raised the possibility that Arizona’s population might actually begin to decrease as job seekers went elsewhere. New U.S.

At the Economic Club of Phoenix Luncheon on March 13, 2012, the audience heard about the state of the airline industry as the economy slowly recovers. Listen to the keynote presentation.

According to an economic model developed at the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona is headed for a pleasant surprise in April. Capital gains taxes, typically paid quarterly with the largest payment in April, are rising, according to economist Dennis Hoffman, director of the L.

Shell Executive Vice President Curtis Frasier, who is general counsel of Royal Dutch Shell’s Upstream Americas business and head of legal in the U.S.

Sluggish consumer spending has been a prime job-killer in Arizona during what’s come to be known as the Great Recession, according to economist Dennis Hoffman, director of the L. William Seidman Research Institute.

Economics Professor Daniel Silverman and four co-authors used “naturally-occurring data” — data gathered about behavior as it happens rather than from a survey or an experiment — to explore a mysterious discrepancy between economic theory and reality.