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Reserve Bank Operations and Payments Systems Staff | Payment System Studies Section
Geoffrey R. Gerdes
Economist
Payment System Studies Section
Division of Reserve Bank Operations and Payments Systems
Payment System Studies Section
Division of Reserve Bank Operations and Payments Systems
Contact Information
202-872-4953
geoffrey.r.gerdes@frb.gov
Fields of Interest
Banking and Financial Institutions
Technological Change and Growth
Econometrics and Statistics
Education
Ph.D., Economics, University of California, Los Angeles, 1999
M.A., Economics, University of California, Los Angeles, 1994
B.A., Economics, University of California, Los Angeles, 1992
Professional Experience
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1999-present
Selected Publications
- ''The Use of Checks and other Noncash Payment Instruments in the United States'' (with Jack K. Walton II), Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 88 (August 2002), pp. 360-74.
- ''Estimating Technological Change Using a Stochastic Frontier Production Function Framework: Evidence from U.S. Firm-Level Data'' (with Rajeev Dhawan), Journal of Productivity Analysis, vol. 8 (November 1997), pp. 431-46.