Titles:
 Advisory Board Member, Regional Research Institute, West Virginia
University
Professor of Geography, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign
Professor of Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois
Director, Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL)
Education:
Ph.D., Washington, 1969
Research Interests:
His major research interests lie in the field of urban and regional economic analysis with a focus on the design, implementation and application of regional economic models. He has devoted considerable time to the way in which these models might become useful in policy formation and evaluation. In addition to the continuing development of regional econometric-input-output models for a number of US states and metropolitan areas, Hewings is working on several modeling projects in Brazil, Austria, Colombia, Japan and Indonesia. Recent work in the Midwest has focused on the estimation of interstate trade flows as a prelude to the construction of a Midwest impact and forecasting model that will be linked with a transportation network model. Additional funded research includes estimation of intra-metropolitan trade flows within the Chicago region (MacArthur Foundation) and an evaluation of the impact of air service on rural and small metropolitan communities (USDOT). Theoretical work remains directed to issues of economic structure and structural change interpreted through input-output, social accounting and general equilibrium models. Hewings is responsible for the overall direction of REAL, coordination with funding agencies and clients and supervision of graduate students who work for REAL on the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois.
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Contact Information:
236 Davenport Hall
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Tel: (217) 333-4740
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