Reserve Bank Operations and Payments Systems Staff | Payment System Studies Section
Geoffrey R. Gerdes
Senior Economist
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
Technological Change and Growth
Financial Markets
Banking and Financial Institutions
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
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''Recent payment trends in the United States,''
Federal Reserve Bulletin,
vol. 94 (October 2008), pp. A75-A106.
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''Valuing publicly sponsored research projects: Risks, scenario adjustments, and inattention''
(with Daniel Burghart and Trudy Cameron),
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, vol. 35
(August 2007), pp. 77-105.
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''Trends in the use of payment instruments in the United States''
(with Jack K. Walton II, May X. Liu, and Darrel W. Parke),
Federal Reserve Bulletin,
vol. 91 (Spring 2005), pp. 180-201.
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''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.
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''Interactive Economics Instruction with Java and CGI,''
Journal of Economic Education, vol. 31
(Winter 2000), pp. 12.
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''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.
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