Report on recommendations to the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report of the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board for the year ended June 30, 2010

Report of recommendations to the Public Employment Relations Board for the year ending, June 30, 2010

Report of recommendations to the Public Employment Relations Board for the year ending, June 30, 2010

Evidence on the complex link between

Most studies analysing the infrastructure impact on regional growth show a positive relationship between both variables. However, the public capital elasticity estimated in a Cobb-Douglas function, which is the most common specification in these works, is sometimes too big to be credible, so that the results have been partially desestimated. In the present paper, we give some new advances on the real link between public capital and productivity for the Spanish regions in the period 1964-1991. Firstly, we find out that the association for both variables is smaller when controlling for regional effects, being industry the sector which reaps the most benefits from an increase in the infrastructural dotation. Secondly, concerning to the rigidity of the Cobb-Douglas function, it is surpassed by using the variable expansion method. The expanded functional form reveals both the absence of a direct effect of infrastructure and the fact that the link between infrastructure and growth depends on the level of the existing stock (threshold level) and the way infrastructure is articulated in its location relative to other factors. Finally, we analyse the importance of the spatial dimension in infrastructure impact, due to spillover effects. In this sense, the paper provides evidence of the existence of spatial autocorrelation processes that may invalidate previous results.

Targeted Small Business Link, Summer 2011, Vol. 4, no. 3

Targeted Small Business News and information from the Iowa Department of Economic Development.

Ownership structure and innovation: Is there a real link?

This work focuses on the study of the relationship between ownership and control structure of the company and its innovative activity. Its aim consists of analysing the role that may be played by determinants within the company related to ownership structure when the decision to incur research and development activities is taken as well as on the output of this innovate process. Among these determinants we may think of issues such as who owns the firm and how the control of decision-making is distributed, the nature of this control and the level of concentration of ownership, among others. The study is carried out for the year 2001 using a representative sample of Spanish manufacturing industries.

Report of Recommendations to the Board of Regents for the year ended June 30, 2010

Report on the Board of Regents for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on the Iowa Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Board (UST Board) for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on the Iowa Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Board (UST Board) for the year ended June 30, 2010

Iowa Board of Nursing Annual Report FY 10 (7/1/09 - 6/30/10)

The Iowa Bord of Nursing Annual Report includes information on legislation, rule changes and statistics related to all aspects of board business: licensing, education, continuing education, enforcement, administrative changes, financial report, general nursing demographics.

Iowa Board of Nursing Annual Report FY 11 (7/1/10 - 6/30/11)

The Iowa Bord of Nursing Annual Report includes information on legislation, rule changes and statistics related to all aspects of board business: licensing, education, continuing education, enforcement, administrative changes, financial report, general nursing demographics.

2010 Annual Report of the Iowa Utilities Board

The IUB Annual Report contains summaries for IUB dockets that were active during the calendar year as well as IUB background information, IUB work section highlights, descriptions of IUB court cases and participation in federal proceedings, listings of IUB assessments to jurisdictional utilities, and the IUB fiscal year budget.

Report on a special investigation of the Webster County Metropolitan Law Enforcement Telecommunications Board for the period July 1, 2006 to January 28, 2011

Report on a special investigation of the Webster County Metropolitan Law Enforcement Telecommunications Board for the period July 1, 2006 to January 28, 2011

Audit report on the Iowa Corn Promotion Board for the years ended August 31, 2011 and 2010

Audit report on the Iowa Corn Promotion Board for the years ended August 31, 2011 and 2010

Targeted Small Business Link, Fall 2011

Targeted Small Business news from the Iowa Economic Development Authority

Iowa Highway Research Board TR-423: 1949–1999, 1999

The year 1949 saw the Iowa General Assembly’s establishment of the Iowa Secondary Road Research Fund, which led to the creation of a supervisory board within what was then the Iowa State Highway Commission to oversee the expenditure of that fund. The purpose of the fund and the board was to research road construction topics likely to be beneficial to the working of Iowa’s secondary, or local, road system. The supervisory board—called the Iowa Highway Research Board (the “Board”)—was organized by the highway commission in December 1949 and first met in May 1950. The creation of the fund and of the Iowa Highway Research Board marked the first organized effort in the United States to investigate local road construction problems and placed Iowa in the forefront of this field of engineering research. That Iowa should be a leader in such an effort is not surprising, given the early and sustained emphasis of the Iowa State Highway Commission on both research and the dissemination of information to county authorities. Now, 50 years later, a retrospective is in order. To that end, the Iowa Highway Research Board commissioned the preparation of a commemorative history. This work is the result of that project. Throughout its existence, the Board has funded nearly 450 projects, several of national significance. Many new construction and maintenance techniques have been developed, some of which have evolved into standard practices in highway construction. Innovative new materials and equipment have been tested. Still other projects have considered a wide variety of subjects related to the efficient operation of the highway system. Highway safety, conservation, and law have all come under research scrutiny. While it will not be possible, given the short space available, to consider all the projects financed by the Iowa Highway Research Board, it is well worthwhile to examine the Board’s principal projects and its resulting contributions to the field of highway research.