Primary Job Title Economist Primary Organization Lightcast
Location Moscow, Idaho, United States Regions Western US Gender Male
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Hank Robison is the Economist at Lightcast. Hank Robison was the co-founder and chief economist at EMSI with 30 years of international and domestic experience.
He specializes in economic impact analysis, regional data development, and custom-crafted community and broader area input-output models. His clients include state and federal government
agencies and private industries.
Prior to EMSI, Dr. Robison served 10 years as a research faculty and consultant at the University of Idaho, where he secured a wide array of grants and contract research.
Dr. Robison is recognized for his theoretical work that blends regional input-output and spatial trade theory, and for his development of community-level input-output modeling.
A retrospective ranked Dr. Robison number eighteen of the top one-hundred “intellectual leaders of regional science” for the decade of the nineties (Papers in Regional Science, 83(1), 2004).
