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Will Cleveland get an economic boost from Trump’s GOP coronation?

  • Written by Jay L. Zagorsky, Economist and Research Scientist, The Ohio State University

The Republican National Convention is coming to Cleveland, and boosters are cheering the millions of dollars it will bring to northeast Ohio’s businesses.

There are lots of impact studies of previous Republican and Democratic nominating conventions. Each seems to produce more eye-popping figures than the last. However, some academics and jour...

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