Publications:

Book-length Electronic Reports and Books


2017
Wolman, Harold, Howard Wial, Travis St. Clair and Edward Hill, Coping with Adversity: Regional Economic Resilience and Public Policy. Cornell University Press.

2011
Hill, Edward W., Fran Stewart, Iryna Lendel, John Brandt, and Jim Samuel, Pennsylvania's True Commonwealth: The state of manufacturing, released by the Industrial Resource Network of Pennsylvania.

2008
Hill, Edward W., Jim Samuel, and Fran Stewart, Driving Ohio's Prosperity (Auto supply chain) released with CompeteColumbus. Also see Recommendations.

2005
Industry-based Competitive Strategies for Ohio: Managing three portfolios, co-author and co-principal investigator, Ohio Department of Development, May 2005.

2004
Manufacturing Pennsylvania's Future: Regional strategies that build from competitive strengths and address competitive challenges, one of nine co-authors (Harrisburg: Team PA Foundation, January 2004). http://www.nepirc.com/pdfs/mfgstudy.pdf.
Executive Summary

2001
Ohio's competitive advantage: Manufacturing productivity (Cleveland: Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University, 2001).  http://urban.csuohio.edu/research/ohiomanufacturing/ohiomanufacturing.htm.

1992
Vaughan, Roger and Edward W. Hill, Banking on the brink: The troubled future of American finance (Washington, D.C.: Washington Post Briefing Book, 1992).

Edited Books


1997
Bingham, Richard D. and Edward W. Hill, Global perspectives on economic development: Government and enterprise finance (New Brunswick, N.J.: Center for Urban Policy Research, 1997).

1995
Buss, Terry F. and Edward W. Hill, Reviving local economies: A guide for Russian officials,(Moscow: USIA, 1995). In Russian

1992 and 1994
Galster, George and Edward W. Hill, The Metropolis in Black and White: Place, power and polarization (New Brunswick, N.J.: Center for Urban Policy Research, 1992).  Second printing in 1994.

1990
Bingham, Richard D., Edward W. Hill, and Sammis B. White, Financing Economic Development: An institutional response (Newbury Park CA: Sage Publications, 1990). In Ukrainian by Lilopys Publishing House, Lviv, Ukraine 2003.


Articles and selected working papers and commentaries


2015
Hexter, Kathryn, Edward Hill, Banjamin Clark, Brian Mikelbank, and Charles Post. ¿Revitalizing older suburbs: Case studies in Alabama, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania¿ in Katrin Anacker (ed) The New American Suburb: Poverty, Race and the Mortgage Crisis (Ashgate) :213-246

2012
Hill, Edward W., Travis St. Clair, Howard Wial, and Harold Wolman, ¿Economic shocks and regional economic resilience,¿ Urban and Regional Policy and its Effects, volume 4, Chapter 6*

2009
Hill, Edward W. and Fran Stewart, "A city-focused economic development agenda for the federal government and HUD," in Paul Brophey and Rachel Godsil (eds.) in Retooling HUD for a catalytic federal government: A report for Secretary Shaun Donovan (Philadelphia: Penn Institute for Social Research): 133-146. http://www.upenn.edu/penniur/pdf/Retooling%20HUD-EntireReport.pdf

Blumenthal, Pamela, Harold Wolman and Edward W. Hill, "Understanding the economic performance of metropolitan areas in the United States," Urban Studies, in press (March).

2008
Wolman, Harold, Edward W. Hill, Pamela Blumenthal, and Kimberly Furdell, "Understanding Economically Distressed Cities," in Richard McGahey and Jennifer Vey (eds.) Retooling for Growth (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press)

Curran, Leah Beth, Kimberly Furdell, Edward W. Hill, and Harold Wolman, Poverty programs and prices: How adjusting for costs of living would affect federal benefit eligibility, March 17, 2008. Brookings Institution, Metropolitan Policy Program  http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2008/0317_costofliving_hill.aspx.

Hill, Edward W., Jim Samuel, and Fran Stewart, Driving Ohio's Prosperity: An analysis of the automotive vehicle complex in Ohio (March) released with CompeteColumbus (Levin College of Urban Affairs).

2007
Hill, Edward W. and Iryna Lendel, The impact of the reputation of bio-life science and engineering doctoral programs on regional economic development, Economic Development Quarterly (August): 223-243.

Wolman, Harold, Edward W. Hill, Patricia Atkins, Pamela Blumenthal, Leah Beth Curran, Kimberly Furdell, Jo Anne Schneider, Elaine Weiss, States and their cities: Partnerships for the Future www.knowledgeplex.org/showdoc.html?id=236675.

2006
Curran, Leah, Harold L. Wolman, Edward W. Hill, and Kimberly Furdell, Economic wellbeing and where we live: Accounting for geographic cost-of-living differentials, Urban Studies 43(13) (December 2006): 2443-2466.

Ellis, David A. and Edward W. Hill, An analysis of the proposed lease of the Ohio Turnpike, June 2, 2006 (Levin College of Urban Affairs and the Center for Community Solutions).

Hill, Edward W., Matthew Sattler, Jacob Duritsky, Kevin O¿Brien, and Claudette Robey, A  Review of Tax and Expenditure Limitations and Their Impact on State and Local Government in Ohio (Cleveland: The Center for Public Management, March 2006). http://urban.csuohio.edu/publicmanagement/publications/tel31806.pdf.

2005
Hill, Edward W. and John Brennan, America's central cities and the location of work: Can cities compete with their suburbs, Journal of the American Planning Association, 71(4) (Autumn 2005): 411-432.

Furdell, Kimberly, Harold Wolman, and Edward W. Hill, Did central cities come back? Which ones, how far, and why? Journal of Urban Affairs 27(3): 283-305.

Hill, Edward W. and Iryna Lendel, Did 9/11 change Manhattan and the New York region as places to conduct business? In Howard Chernick (ed.) Resilient city: The economic impact of 9/11. (New York: The Russell Sage Foundation, 2005):23-61.

Hill, Edward W. et. al, Slanted pavement: How Ohio's highway spending shortchanges cities and suburbs.  In Bruce Katz and Robert Puentes (eds.) Taking the high road: A metropolitan agenda for transportation reform. (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2005): 101-138.

2004
Wolman, Harold L., Edward W. Hill, and Kimberly Furdell, Evaluating the success of urban success stories: Is reputation the best guide to practice?  Housing Policy Debate 15(4): 965-997.

2003
White, Sammis B., Richard Bingham, and Edward W. Hill, Financing economic development in the 21st century (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2003). Edited book

Hill, Edward W., Comment on Thomas Kane, et al.: School accountability ratings and housing values, Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, 2003.

2002
Hill, Edward W. and Jeremy Nowak, Policies to uncover the competitive advantages of America's distressed cities.  In Ian Begg (ed.) Urban competitiveness (Manchester, UK: Public Policy Press, 2002).

Hill, Edward W. and Billie K. Geyer, Business Climate, Business Taxes, and Economic Development, Taxing Issues, October 2002, Cleveland, OH: Federation for Community Planning. (This is a reprint of Chapter 4 of Ohio's Competitive Advantage: Manufacturing Productivity (Cleveland: Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University, 2001).

2001
Hill, Ned, Chris Warren, Richard Shatten, and Norman Krumholz, Cleveland: Four perspectives on America's "comeback city": A proceeding of the crisis cities symposium, Projections (Spring 2000) 1: 80-95

Burgess, Patricia, Ruth Durack, and Edward W. Hill, Re-imaging the rust belt: Can Cleveland sustain the renaissance? In Sam Bass Warner and Lawrence J. Vale (Eds.) Imaging the city (New Brunswick, NJ: CUPR Press, 2001): 95-117.

2000
Hill, Edward W. and Jeremy Nowak, Nothing left to lose: Radical policy changes are required to uncover the competitive advantages of America's distressed cities, The Brookings Review Summer 2000): 23-26. http://www.brookings.edu/press/review/summer2000/hill.htm.

Hill, Edward W. and John F. Brennan, A methodology for identifying the drivers of industrial clusters: The foundation of regional competitive advantage, Economic Development Quarterly 14(1) (February 2000): 65-96.

1999
Brennan, John F. and Edward W. Hill, Where are the jobs? Cities, suburbs, and the competition for employment, November, 1999 Survey Series. http://www.brookings.edu/reports/1999/11metropolitanpolicy_john-brennan-and-edward-w--hill.aspx.

Brennan, John F. and Edward W. Hill, Measuring metropolitan manufacturing competitiveness, Economic Development Commentary (Summer 1999) 23(2): 33-38.

Hill, Edward W., Comeback Cleveland by the numbers: The economy, employment and Education.  In David Sweet, David Beach, and Kathryn Wertheim Hexter (eds.) The new American city looks to its regional future (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1999): 77-100.

1998
Hill, Edward W., The air services hierarchy in North America: A regional perspective on air services and economic development, Economic Development Commentary, (Fall 1998) 22(3): 30-38.

Hill, Edward W., Principles for rethinking the federal government¿s role in economic development, Economic Development Quarterly (November 1998) 12(4): 299-312.

Hill, Edward W., John F. Brennan, and Harold L. Wolman, What is a central city in the United States? Applying a statistical technique for developing taxonomies, Urban Studies, 35(11) (November 1998): 1935-1969.

1997
Hill, Edward W. and Harold L. Wolman, City-suburban income disparities and metropolitan area employment: Can tightening labor markets reduce the gaps? Urban Affairs Review 32(4) (March 1997): 558-582.

Hill, Edward W. and Harold L. Wolman, Accounting for the change in income disparities between U.S. central cities and their suburbs from 1980 to 1990, Urban Studies 34(1) (January 1997): 43-60.

Hill, Edward W., Bennett Harrison and Marcus S. Weiss, Rethinking National Economic Development Policy, Overview/Summary, in Rethinking National Economic Development Policy (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration, 1997).

Hill, Edward W., Revitalizing Cleveland, Not Comeback Cleveland: Local and Federal Forces That Rebuilt a Region, in Rethinking National Economic Development Policy  (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration, 1997).

Bingham, Richard D. and Edward W. Hill, The economic new world order.  In Richard D. Bingham and Edward W. Hill (eds.) Global perspectives on economic development: Government and enterprise finance (New Brunswick, N.J.: Center for Urban Policy Research, 1997): ix-xxiv.

Hill, Edward W. and Terry Buss, Government and business finance in Russia.  In Richard D.Bingham and Edward W. Hill (eds.) Global perspectives on economic development: Government and enterprise finance (New Brunswick, N.J.: Center for Urban Policy Research, 1997): 380-417.

Hill, Edward W., The Future of Northeast Ohio¿s Airports: Framing the Coming Debate (Cleveland: The Urban Center, October 14, 1997).

Hill, Edward W. and Rosalyn Allison, Assessment of the Rising Tide Initiative of the Urban League of Greater Cleveland (Cleveland: The Urban Center, June 6, 1997).

1995
Hill, Edward W., Harold L. Wolman, and Coit Cook Ford III, Can suburbs survive without their central cities? Examining the suburban dependence hypothesis, Urban Affairs Review 31(2) (November 1995): 147-174.

Wolman, Harold L., Edward W. Hill and Coit Cook Ford III, Response to straw men, etc., Urban Affairs Review, 31(2) (November 1995): 180-183.

Hill, Edward W., The Cleveland economy: A case study of economic restructuring.  In W. Dennis Keating, Norman Krumholz and David Perry (eds.) Cleveland: A metropolitan reader (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1995): 53-86.  Parts of this chapter have been subsequently reprinted as: A city built on work, Cleveland Plain Dealer, October 7, 1997 and Bingham et al., Beyond edge cities (NY: Garland Publishing, 1997) pp.56-61.

Hill, Edward W. and Terry F. Buss, Financing business in Russia.  In Terry F. Buss and Edward W. Hill (eds.), Reviving local economies: A guide for Russian officials (Moscow, United States Information Service 1995). In Russian.

Hill, Edward W., Marketing your city or region.  In Reviving local economies: A guide for Russian officials. In Russian.

Hill, Edward W. and Paul Dutton, Dealing with foreign investors.  In Reviving local: A guide for Russian officials. In Russian.

1994
Hill, Edward W., Neighborhood reinvestment, service factories, and commercial gentrification: A policy solution that will not work, Government and Policy (Environment and Planning C), Volume 12 (December 1994):484-489.

Wolman, Harold L., Coit Cook Ford III, and Edward W. Hill, Evaluating the success of urban success stories, Urban Studies, 31(6) (June 1994): 835-850.

Hill, Edward W., Tax Abatement: War Within a State: Ohio's Enterprise Zone Tax Abatement Program (Cleveland: The Urban Center, August 1994).

Hill, Edward W., Julie Rittenhouse and Rosalyn C. Allison, The Economy, Jobs, and Training: Implications for the Hard-to-Employ in Greater Cleveland, Report 94-1 (Cleveland: The Urban Center, for the Greater Cleveland Urban League, April 1994).

Hill, Edward W., Greater Cleveland's Economy: Challenges and Prospects in the Mid-1990s, Report 94-2, (Cleveland: The Urban Center, for the Greater Cleveland Urban League, March 1994).

Hill, Edward W., Julie Rittenhouse and Rosalyn C. Allison, Recommendations to the Minority Economic Opportunity Center and the Greater Cleveland Urban League on Improving Training and Employment Prospects for the Hard-to-Employ in Greater Cleveland, Report 94-7 (Cleveland: The Urban Center, for the Greater Cleveland Urban League, April 1994).

1993
Hill, Edward W. and Roger Vaughan, Banking: Real risks require real reforms, Challenge, January/February 1993: 13-17. The article was reprinted in Robert Guttmann (ed.) Reforming money and finance: Toward a new monetary regime (Armonk, NY: M.E.Sharpe, 1997) pp.121-125. This article appeared in similar form ("December Surprise?") in the December 1992 issue of Corporate Cleveland.

1992
Wolman, Harold L., Royce Hanson, Marie Howland, Edward W. Hill, and Larry Ledebur, National urban economic development policy, Journal of Urban Affairs 14(3/4) (September 1992): 217-238.

Galster, George and Edward W. Hill, Place, power and polarization.  In George Galster and Edward W. Hill (eds.) The metropolis in black and white: Place, power and polarization (New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, 1992): 1-18.

Hill, Edward W. and Heidi Marie Rock, Race and inner-city education.  In The metropolis in black and white: 108-127.

Hill, Edward W. and Heidi Marie Rock, Policy prescriptions for inner-city public schooling.  In The metropolis in black and white: 306-335.

1991
Hill, Edward W., The savings and loan debacle and the erosion of the dual system of bank regulation, Publius (Summer 1991) 21(3): 27-41.

Bowen, William M., Herbert Rubin, and Edward W. Hill, Management of economic Development.  In Managing local government: Public administration in practice (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1991): 200-213.

1990
Hill, Edward W., The savings and loan bailout, Economic Development Commentary 13(4) (Fall 1990): 18-26.

Hill, Edward W., Current antitrust policy: A liability in today's deregulated banking industry, Policy Studies Journal 18(3) (Spring 1990): 591-626.

Hill, Edward W., A guide to employment data and forecasting, Editor's Introduction, Economic Development Quarterly 4(3) (August 1990): 238-239.

Hill, Edward W., The S&L bailout: Some states gain, many more lose, Challenge, May/June 1990:14 22; Reprinted in Annual Editions, Social Problems 91/92 and Money and Banking 91/92 (Guilford, CT.: Dushkin Publishing).

Hill, Edward W. and Heidi Marie Rock, Education as an economic development resource, Government and Policy (Environment and Planning C) 8(1) (February 1990): 53-68.

Spicer, Michael W. and Edward W. Hill, Evaluating parental choice in public education: Beyond the monopoly model, American Journal of Education 98(2) (February 1990): 97 113.

Hill, Edward W., Increasing minority representation in the planning professorate, Journal of Planning Education and Research 9(2) (Winter 1990): 139-141.

Hill, Edward W. and Nell Ann Shelley, An overview of economic development finance.  In Richard D. Bingham, Edward W. Hill and Sammis White (eds.) Financing economic development: An institutional response (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1990): 13 28.

Hill, Edward W., Cleveland, Ohio: Manufacturing matters; services are strengthened, but earnings erode.  In Richard D. Bingham and Randall W. Eberts (eds.) Economic restructuring of the American Midwest (Boston, MA: Kluwer, 1990): 103-140.

Hill, Edward W. and Kolawole Sunmonu, Interest Rates in the State of Ohio: June 1987 to June 1990, (Cleveland Ohio: The Urban Center, Cleveland State University, 1991) for the State of Ohio, Department of Commerce.

Hill, Edward W. and Nell Ann Shelley, Identifying the Steel Industrial Complex in Northeast Ohio, (Cleveland, Ohio: United Labor Agency, 1990) for the Steel Futures Fund of Ohio's Department of Commerce and the George S. Gund Foundation.

1989
Hill, Edward W., Yonkers' planners acted ethically: Its citizens and politicians acted illegally, Journal of Planning Education and Research 8(3) (Summer 1989): 183 188.

Hill, Edward W. and Thomas Bier, Economic restructuring: Earnings, occupations and housing values in Cleveland, Economic Development Quarterly (May 1989) 3(2): 123 144. Reprinted in Approaches to Economic Development: Readings from Economic Development Quarterly, edited by John Blair and Laura Reese (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications) pp.130-148.

1988
Hill, Edward W. and John Clair Thompson, State bank regulators: Their role in development finance, with John Clair Thompson, Economic Development Commentary 12(4) (Winter 1988):24 29; Reprinted as State bank regulators need more voice in development, Ways and Means, the Legislative Newsletter of the National Center for Policy Alternatives, April 1989.

Hill, Edward W., Differences in the dependency rate among the states in 1985: Implications for development and labor market policy, Economic Development Quarterly (August 1988) 2(3):217 236.

1987
Hill, Edward W., What is the effect of random variation in state jobless rates? Monthly Labor Review 110(12) (December 1987): 41 46.

1979
Harrison, Bennett and Edward W. Hill, The changing structure of jobs in older and younger Cities.  In Benjamin Chinitz (ed.) Central city economic development (Cambridge, MA: Abt Books, 1979).