Research

In his latest Realty Studies Report, Jay Butler, associate professor of real estate at the W. P. Carey School, finds that 46 percent of the home transactions recorded in Phoenix in September were foreclosures — the highest percentage level of foreclosure activity since March.

Commercial real estate matters because it's a proxy for a city's economic health. When an economy grows, companies expand into new offices, warehouses and storefronts. Vacancy rates fall, property prices rise, and developers launch new projects.

Personal Income decreased in practically every state in the nation in 2009. For most states, such outright declines in personal income had not been seen since state income records began. Personal income fell nationally as well, for the first time in six decades.

If you use a cell phone or buy household electronics, there's a good chance you own a device with one or more components distributed by Avnet.

Associate Professor Marilyn Prosch heads up the "Privacy by Design Research Initiative" at the W. P. Carey School's Department of Information Systems.

What does it take to be an effective leader of a corporation? What must a chief executive officer do to energize employees and inspire them to go beyond what is normally expected? How does a CEO motivate employees to truly commit to a company?

The latest realty studies report for the Phoenix resale home market showed that the typical fall downturn began as expected in August. The 8,790 sales recorded were a decline from the 10,860 recorded at the peak in March, but this August was slow even compared to August 2009.

If you grew up in Arizona you probably remember learning about the five C's, an easy way of remembering the major components of the state's economy at the time.

Although we have not yet seen sustained employment growth at the national level, labor markets in more and more states are showing improvement over the same period last year.

As the saying goes, "If you ask 20 economists about the economic outlook, you'll get 21 scenarios for what lies ahead." The point is that economists famously disagree.