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William Testa

 

Bill Testa was formally vice president and director of regional research in the economic research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

Chicago Fed Letter
Economic Impacts of Changes in Energy Production
Donald A. Hanson, Martin Lavelle, William Testa | 2013 | No. 314 | September Download
Why Are Manufacturers Struggling to Hire High-Skilled Workers?
Britton Lombardi, William Testa | 2011 | No. 289 | August Download
Cost-Effective Carbon Restrictions—A Conference Summary
Sam Kahan, William Testa | 2008 | No. 248a | March Download
The Value Chain Case for Health Care Reform—A Conference Summary
Sam Kahan, William Testa | 2008 | No. 248 | March Download
Using Payment Innovations to Improve Transportation Networks: A Conference Summary (Special Issue)
Gene Amromin, Carrie Jankowski, Elizabeth Nieman, Richard Porter, William Testa | 2007 | No. 242b | September Download
New Developments in State Business Taxation: A Conference Summary (Special Issue)
Rick Mattoon, William Testa | 2007 | No. 240a | July Download
High-technology in the Midwest—Biotech and Beyond
William Testa | 2005 | No. 220a | November Download
Challenges and Prospects for Midwest Manufacturing
Thomas H. Klier, Rick Mattoon, William Testa | 2005 | No. 212b | March Download
The Changing Relationship between Headquarters and Cities (Special Issue)
Thomas H. Klier, Yukako Ono, William Testa | 2005 | No. 212a | March Download
Challenges and Prospects for Midwest Manufacturing: Report on the 2003–04 Chicago Fed Manufacturing Project
William Testa | 2005 | No. 211b | February Download
Is Manufacturing at a Crossroads? (Special Issue)
Rick Mattoon, William Testa | 2004 | No. 204a | July Download
Is Midwest Manufacturing at a Crossroads? (Special Issue)
Thomas H. Klier, William Testa | 2003 | No. 197a | December Download
Midwest Manufacturing and Trade with China
Jay Liao, William Testa, Alexei Zelenev | 2003 | No. 196 | November Download
Linkages across the Border (Special Issue)
Thomas H. Klier, William Testa | 2002 | No. 179b | July Download
The Great Lakes Border and Economy (Special Issue)
Thomas H. Klier, William Testa | 2002 | No. 179a | July Download
Remittances and the Unbanked (Special Issue)
Liz Handlin, Margrethe Krontoft, William Testa | 2002 | No. 175a | March Download
Are Central Cities Coming Back? The Case of Chicago (Special Issue)
Margrethe Krontoft, Daniel McMillen, William Testa | 2001 | No. 172a | December Download
Higher Energy Prices in the Midwest
Thomas H. Klier, William Testa | 2001 | No. 168 | August Download
Headquarters Wanted: Principals Only Need Apply (Special Issue)
Thomas H. Klier, William Testa | 2001 | No. 167a | July Download
Chicago's Global Connections and Challenges (Special Issue)
Margrethe Krontoft, William Testa | 2001 | No. 166a | June Download
Midwest Prospects and the New Economy
Rick Kaglic, William Testa | 2000 | No. 158 | October Download
Emerging Urban Markets in the Midwest (Special Issue)
Loula Merkel, William Testa | 2000 | No. 155a | July Download
Reform of Midwest Urban Schools—Conference Summary
Nawsheen Rabbani, Surya Sen, William Testa | 2000 | No. 153a | May Download
Binational Great Lakes Economy
Loula Merkel, David Oppedahl, William Testa | 2000 | No. 153 | May Download
Resources, Outcomes and Funding of Public Schools (Special Issue)
Tommy Scheiding, Surya Sen, William Testa | 1999 | No. 145b | September Download
School Choice and Competition (Special Issue)
Surya Sen, William Testa | 1999 | No. 143a | July Download
Changing Fiscal Policy in the Seventh District
William Testa | 1998 | No. 128 | April Download
Assessing the Midwest Economy: Looking Back for the Future — A Summary
Thomas H. Klier, Rick Mattoon, William Testa | 1997 | No. 118 | June Download
Workforce Issues
Rick Mattoon, William Testa | 1996 | No. 111 | November Download
Chicago's Financial Industries
Rick Kaglic, William Testa | 1995 | No. 99 | November Download
Brownfield Redevelopment and Urban Economies
David Allardice, Rick Mattoon, William Testa | 1995 | No. 93 | May Download
Metropolitan Areas Spread Out
Jerry W. Szatan, William Testa | 1994 | No. 83 | July Download
School Reform and Tax Reform: A Successful Marriage?
Paul D. Ballew , Rick Mattoon, William Testa | 1994 | No. 81 | May Download
Assessing the Midwest Flood
Gary L. Benjamin, Rick Mattoon, William Testa | 1993 | No. 76 | December Download
Urban Ozone Regulations
Donald A. Hanson, William Testa | 1993 | No. 71 | July Download
Two Paths to Prosperity
Paul D. Ballew , William Testa | 1993 | No. 65 | January Download
Alternative Approaches to Meeting Economic and Environmental Challenges
David Allardice, Rick Mattoon, William Testa | 1992 | No. 63 | November Download
A Market-Based Approach to Cleaner Air
Donald A. Hanson, William Testa | 1992 | No. 57 | May Download
Caution: State and Local Governments Brake for Recessions
Rick Mattoon, William Testa | 1992 | No. 55 | March Download
Unemployment Insurance: Countercyclical or Counterproductive?
Linda Aguilar , William Testa | 1991 | No. 47 | July Download
Two Good Neighbors Lower Their Fences
William Testa | 1990 | No. 37 | September Download
The Midwest Looks to R&D for a Payoff
William Testa, David Weiss | 1990 | No. 34 | June Download
Telling Fortunes: Manufacturing and the Great Lakes Region
William Testa | 1989 | No. 25 | September Download
Bidding for Business
David Allardice, William Testa | 1988 | No. 16 | December Download
Fishing for Work: The Midwest Looks at Possible Job Lures
William Testa | 1988 | No. 11 | July Download
Robots: Ours Are Smarter; Theirs Sell Better
William Testa | 1987 | No. 03 | November Download
Economic Perspectives
Educational Attainment and Household Location: The Case of Chicago’s Lakefront
William Sander, William Testa | 2010 | Vol. 34 | No. 4 | 4th Quarter Download
Estimating U.S. metropolitan area export and import competition
Thomas H. Klier, William Testa, Alexei Zelenev | 2003 | Vol. 27 | No. 4 | November | 4th Quarter Download
Are the large central cities of the Midwest reviving?
William Testa | 2001 | Vol. 25 | No. 2 | May | 2nd Quarter Download
Slow work force growth: A challenge for the Midwest?
Rick Kaglic, William Testa | 1999 | Vol. 23 | No. 2 | May | 2nd Quarter Download
Reversal of Fortune: Understanding the Midwest recovery
Thomas H. Klier, Rick Mattoon, William Testa | 1997 | Vol. 21 | No. 4 | June | 4th Quarter Download
State-local business taxation and the benefits principle
William Testa | 1996 | Vol. 20 | No. 1 | January Download
Does Business Development Raise Taxes?
William H. Oakland, William Testa | 1995 | Vol. 19 | No. 2 | March Download
Midwest approaches to school reform
Rick Mattoon, William Testa | 1995 | Vol. 19 | No. 1 | January Download
Cost effective control of urban smog: a report of a conference held at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, June 7-8, 1993
Donald A. Hanson, Richard F. Kosobud, William Testa | 1993 | Vol. 17 | No. 6 | November | 4th Quarter Download
Shaping the Great Lakes economy: a conference summary
Rick Mattoon, William Testa | 1993 | Vol. 17 | No. 4 | July | 2nd Quarter Download
Trends and prospects for rural manufacturing
William Testa | 1993 | Vol. 17 | No. 2 | March Download
Producer services: trends and prospects for the Seventh District
William Testa | 1992 | Vol. 16 | No. 3 | May | 2nd Quarter Download
State and local governments reaction to recession
Rick Mattoon, William Testa | 1992 | Vol. 16 | No. 2 | March Download
The going gets tough: State and local governments confront the nineties
Linda Aguilar , Rick Mattoon, William Testa | 1991 | Vol. 15 | No. 3 | May | 2nd Quarter Download
Preview of The Great Lakes Economy Looking North and South
William Testa | 1991 | Vol. 15 | No. 3 | May | 2nd Quarter Download
Unemployment insurance and regional economic development
Natalie A. Davila, William Testa | 1989 | Vol. 13 | No. 2 | March Download
Technology and manufacturing in the Seventh District
Alenka S. Giese, William Testa | 1987 | Vol. 11 | No. 5 | September | 3rd Quarter Download
Updates: Public Utility Taxation in Illinois
Diane F. Siegel, William Testa | 1986 | Vol. 10 | No. January/February Download
Public Utility Taxation in Illinois
Diane F. Siegel, William Testa | 1985 | Vol. 9 | No. July/August Download
Economic Recovery and Jobs in the Seventh District
Jerry W. Szatan, William Testa | 1984 | Vol. 8 | No. September/October Download
State Taxation of Energy Production: Regional and National Issues
William Testa | 1984 | Vol. 8 | No. September/October Download
Natural Gas Policy and the Midwest
William Testa | 1983 | Vol. 7 | No. September/October Download

Working Papers
Can the Benefits Principle Be Applied to State-local Taxation of Business?
William H. Oakland, William Testa | 1998 | No. 98-16 Download
Trends and Prospects for Rural Manufacturing
William Testa | 1992 | No. 92-12 | July Download

Midwest Economy Blog
Detroit and Chicago: Real Property Value Comparisons
August 30, 2016
Why Chicago is not Detroit
May 2, 2016
Chicago City Trends
November 21, 2014
Mid-year Export Trends
September 24, 2014
Are Seventh District Labor Markets Still Slack?
August 25, 2014
Economic Development in Chicago
August 18, 2014
Economic Development in Detroit
August 11, 2014
Economic Development in Milwaukee, WI
August 4, 2014
Economic Development in Indianapolis, Indiana
July 28, 2014
Economic Development in Des Moines, Iowa
July 21, 2014
District Housing Update
July 10, 2014
Seventh District R&D: Manufacturing the Leader
June 23, 2014
Is Something Ailing the Illinois Economy?
May 8, 2014
Freight movement slows in January, while freight rates remain high—Is it the weather or something else?
April 3, 2014
Michigan’s Automotive R&D Part II
March 17, 2014
District Unemployment Rates During this Expansion1
February 14, 2014
Michigan Automotive, More Than Production
November 12, 2013
Children and Cities Redux
September 3, 2013
Federal spending by state
August 9, 2013
Exploring Seventh District Housing Markets
July 8, 2013
Economic Growth in the Near Term for the Industrial Midwest
June 19, 2013
Hog Butchers and Mad Men?
May 29, 2013
Reshoring discussion
May 2, 2013
Will Efforts to Fix Illinois Budget Hamper Economic Growth?
April 11, 2013
Conference to Explore the Economic Impacts of Enhanced Domestic Energy Production from Shale Gas and Oil Extraction
February 25, 2013
Introducing the Michigan Economy
January 15, 2013
Introducing the Michigan Economy Blog
January 11, 2013
Fossil Fuel Prospects and Location
December 10, 2012
Will America’s Boom in Energy Production Give Manufacturing a Boost?
November 14, 2012
Government Employment in the Seventh District
October 18, 2012
Wage growth in the Seventh District’s manufacturing occupations
September 7, 2012
First-Half Seventh District Manufacturing Performance
August 8, 2012
Families and Central Citites
August 02, 2012
Manufacturing: Been down so long, it looks like up?
July 13, 2012
Natural gas and the Seventh District
June 8, 2012
Global Services and Midwest Prospects
May 22, 2012
Auto Sales and the Seventh District
May 10, 2012
Recent Energy Price Movements in the Midwest
May 1, 2012
Manufacturing as Destiny, Part II
April 18, 2012
Hog Butcher No More, but Service Purveyor to Same?
April 6, 2012
Export Effects of a European Slowdown on the Midwest
March 15, 2012
Understanding manufacturing labor and wage trends
February 22, 2012
Great Lakes’ manufacturing job loss in perspective
February 13, 2012
Nonmetropolitan counties bouncing back1
November 10, 2011
Innovation and the District’s Food Industries, and “Clean Tech” Conference Announcement
September 6, 2011
Not Much House Lock So Far in Seventh District
August 12, 2011
The Labor Market into the Third Quarter
July 25, 2011
Chicago’s Center Leads the Way?
July 11, 2011
What’s Behind the Seventh District Resurgence?
May 19, 2011
Job Recovery in the Seventh District
April 26, 2011
Net Migration and Regional Adjustment
April 12, 2011
Manufacturing in the Seventh District: Agriculture, Construction, and Mining Machinery
March 14, 2011
Exploring urban economic bases: Which types of people and industries are drawn to central cities?
February 25, 2011
Today’s Nexus Farming and Rural Development
January 19, 2011
Can the Great Lakes Region Break Free of its Long-term Slide?
December 17, 2010
Rebalancing and exports
September 2, 2010
A continued role for central cities?
August 4, 2010
Comparing Jobless Recoveries
July 13, 2010
Charting Illinois’s Fiscal Future—Conference Preview (Rick Mattoon)
May 28, 2010
State-local Debt and Unfunded Employee Benefits
May 12, 2010
What’s ahead for the auto industry? A conference on the longer-term perspective
April 28, 2010
Job Revisions Downward
March 22, 2010
Watching for Job Rebounds
February 19, 2010
Groundhog Day for Chicago’s Economy?
February 1, 2010
State population growth: What does it tell us about the states in the Seventh Federal Reserve District?
January 11, 2010
Chicago: Tall and Striving
October 22, 2009
Work Force Adjustment Conference in Detroit
September 29, 2009
City-Suburban Population and the Housing Bust
August 12, 2009
Migration, Michigan, and Labor Market Adjustment
July 27, 2009
What are the opportunities in central cities?
June 21, 2009
Tending the Northern Border
June 9, 2009
"Roads to Renewal” Conference
April 27, 2009
Upskilling in Manufacturing
April 9, 2009
Midwest in Recession: Then and Now
March 12, 2009
Manufacturing Headwinds Strengthen
February 18, 2009
Seventh District Labor Markets at Year-end
February 3, 2009
Growth and Great Lakes Cities
January 8, 2009
Autos: A Further Loosening of the Manufacturing Belt?
December 12, 2008
Exports and the 2008 Economic Slowdown
December 3, 2008
Chicago Business Cycles–Now and Then
October 30, 2008
Fresh Water Issues and Conference
October 16, 2008
University Cities
September 11, 2008
Energy Prices and Where We Live and Work
August 13, 2008
Michigan—Brakes and Shocks
July 2, 2008
Manufacturing’s role in the Midwest future?
June 17, 2008
2007 Economic Growth in the Seventh District
June 5, 2008
Foreign Direct Investment in the Midwest–Update
May 15, 2008
Someone Call the Doctor—Regions Without Borders?
April 29, 2008
Michigan Economic Adjustment: What Role Migration?
April 10, 2008
Metropolitan area exports
March 17, 2008
Housing Construction Developments
February 4, 2008
Exports: A Source of Strength
January 7, 2008
Transportation and GHG regulation
September 25, 2007
The Midwest and the regulation of greenhouse gas
September 14, 2007
How should states tax business?
September 5, 2007
Automotive wages in flux
July 18, 2007
State-local Business Taxation
June 25, 2007
Seventh District Housing Market Update
May 29, 2007
Congestion tolling and privately operated roads—An idea whose time has come?
May 14, 2007
Financial Services Employment Growth in Chicago
April 13, 2007
Manufacturing jobs, increasingly undercounted
March 20, 2007
Higher Education and Chicago’s Development
March 13, 2007
Manufacturing exports continue to excel
March 5, 2007
Medicaid: In need of reform in Midwest states?
February 26, 2007
Sports Franchises and Urban Development
February 12, 2007
Michigan Labor Market–Still Awaiting Recovery
February 5, 2007
Chicago’s Pursuit of the Global Prize
January 22, 2007
A Chicago-Milwaukee Region?
December 15, 2006
Chicago Plans for Freight
December 4, 2006
Population Ranks of Midwest Cities
October 30, 2006
Universities and the Great Lakes Economic Revival
October 23, 2006
Global Agriculture Conference
October 11, 2006
Indiana observations
October 5, 2006
Michigan automotive and white collar jobs
September 28, 2006
Midwest housing market update
September 20, 2006
Where is automotive employment in the Seventh District?
September 13, 2006
What industries are key to Midwest economic performance?
September 6, 2006
Are U.S. and Seventh District business cycles alike?
August 30, 2006
How should we gauge manufacturing’s importance?
August 24, 2006
Business services as a growth sector for Great Lakes cities?
August 16, 2006
New revised Midwest economy website!
August 9, 2006
Manufacturing Update
August 4, 2006
Mid-year jobs report
July 25, 2006
Interstate Income Convergence and Development Policy
July 11, 2006
Manufacturing exit tough on Midwest central cities
July 6, 2006
Score one (Honda auto plant) for the Midwest
June 28, 2006
Chicago companies…..a changing town?
June 26, 2006
Logistics and the Midwest
June 19, 2006
Foreign born
June 7, 2006
Hog Butchers No Longer?
May 30, 2006
Connecting to achieve tech commercialization
May 23, 2006
Small Towns, Big Headquarters
May 18, 2006
Economists and Rising Energy Prices
May 10, 2006
Immigration and Chicago’s Growth
May 5, 2006
Midwest Auto Suppliers at a Critical Crossroads
April 27, 2006
Manufacturing and regional policy
April 17, 2006
Export Growth Propelling Seventh District
April 10, 2006
Midwest housing activity
April 5, 2006
Midwest labor markets: Not as bad as we thought?
March 30, 2006
Auto Parts Issues & Conference
March 22, 2006
Chicago Survey
March 20, 2006
Global Chicago: Da Bulls, Da Bears, Diversity
March 14, 2006
Economic Development Strategy
March 9, 2006
Rural Economies and Globalization
February 21, 2006
Innovation in Electric Power?
February 14, 2006
Foreign Direct Investment in the Midwest
February 7, 2006
Rural Economic Development
February 2, 2006
Midwest payroll job growth—Turning but weak
January 30, 2006
Looming Crisis or Tempest in a Tea Pot? State and Local Government Pensions
January 24, 2006
China and Midwest Biotech
January 18, 2006
Bullish on the Chicago Metropolitan Economy
January 13, 2006
Midwest and the Global Economy Part I
January 6, 2006
Great Lakes: Economy and water
December 1, 2005
Driving Indiana’s and Michigan’s Economic Performance
November 22, 2005
Can Higher Education Revive the Great Lakes Economy?
November 7, 2005
Chicago’s Exchanges Look to the Future
October 27, 2005
Delphi and Midwest Auto Parts
October 20, 2005
How Much Are Headquarters Worth?
October 18, 2005
Hurricane Impacts and Energy Prices
October 6, 2005
Michigan Auto Woes
October 4, 2005
Chicago — Regional capital or global business center?
September 28, 2005
Ethanol and Midwest Rural Communities
September 23, 2005
Midwest Economy
September 16, 2005
Michigan Economy Blog
Michigan’s Automotive R&D Part II
April 1, 2014
Freight Movement Slows in January, While Freight Rates Remain High—Is it the Weather or Something else?
March 21, 2014
Michigan Automotive, More Than Production
November 21, 2013
Seventh District Cities: Their Business & Professional Services Sectors
November 14, 2006
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