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About

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

Bank Publications

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
Gene Amromin, Carrie Jankowski, Elizabeth Nieman, Richard Porter, William Testa | 2007 | No. 242b | September Download
New Developments in State Business Taxation: A Conference Summary
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 (Special Issue)
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
Preview of The Great Lakes Economy Looking North and South
William Testa | 1991 | Vol. 15 | No. 3 | May | 2nd Quarter 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
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
State Taxation of Energy Production: Regional and National Issues
William Testa | 1984 | Vol. 8 | No. September/October Download
Economic Recovery and Jobs in the Seventh District
Jerry W. Szatan, William Testa | 1984 | Vol. 8 | No. September/October Download
Natural Gas Policy and the Midwest
William Testa | 1983 | Vol. 7 | No. September/October Download

Michigan Economy Blog

Michigan’s Automotive R&D Part II
Thomas H. Klier, William Testa, Thomas Walstrum | 2014 | April
Freight Movement Slows in January, While Freight Rates Remain High—Is it the Weather or Something else?
Paul Traub, William Testa | 2014 | March
Michigan Automotive, More Than Production
Thomas Walstrum, William Testa | 2013 | November
Seventh District Cities: Their Business & Professional Services Sectors
William Testa | 2006 | November

Midwest Economy Blog

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

Working papers

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

Selected External Publications

Acceptances in Academic Journals and Books

Sander, William, and William Testa, 2017, “Multinomial logit estimates of household location in the Chicago metropolitan area,” Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, Vol. 10, March, pp. 31–43. 20170301060000
Sander, William, and William Testa, 2016, “Household location and economic development in the Chicago metropolitan statistical area,” Economic Development Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 3, August, pp. 232–238. 20160801050000
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