Regional Explorer: Economics, Risk, and Data Analytics
Overview
Make successful business decisions around demand planning, site selection, market entry and asset management require a thorough understanding of the local economic context and outlook. Regional Explorer enables users to make operational and investment decisions at subnational levels, including regions, states and cities across the globe. Our end-to-end economics, risk, and industry solution enables faster decision making and precise analysis of local markets.
The service provides economic, risk, industry and demographic data and 15-year forecasts for up to 50 indicators across more than 20,000 cities and regions in more than 50 countries.
Our regional economic forecasts are based on official data published by national statistics agencies, state of the art statistical and machine learning models as well as expert inputs. Our team of 150 full time economists as well as our best-in-class Global Link Model feed the regional economic forecasts and ensure internal and external consistency. All forecasts are fully calibrated with our national-level data and are rigorously backtested. The data can be accessed via API and Data Browser.
Key Features
Demand Planning
Need to measure customer demand for products while avoiding supply chain disruptions?
We provide regional economic data to enable granular market segmentation based on demographic data and accurate nowcasting and forecasting of sectoral economic activity.
Market Entry
Need to benchmark locations to identify and compare global business growth opportunities, measure industry performance, and quantify market risk?
We provide subnational, city-level data on labor force, levels of economic activity by sector and business risks allowing you to evaluate and compare locations and identify the size of high-potential markets.
Investment Decisions
Need to understand how to best manage portfolios, compare risks and potential return across locations and identify the investment options as low risk or high risk?
We provide macroeconomic nowcasting and forecasting with big data of economic activity by sector to evaluate location-based investment decisions.
Local Planning
Need to plan for future land use, transport, and development priorities or forecast local tax revenues?
We provide data on GDP and population by country as well as demographic and economic trends that allow local governments to plan. Nowcasts and forecasts of economic activity can be used to estimate tax revenues by sector.
Site Selection
Need to understand risks and opportunities around establishing new facilities, stores, or distribution centers?
We provide subnational, city-level data on labor force, economic activity by sector and business risks. This allows clients to evaluate and compare locations.
Real Estate Forecasting
Need to assess market size and local real estate demand?
We provide regional forecasts for gross value added of the real estate and construction sectors and combine it with our extensive dataset on construction activity for 20 structure types.
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