Professional Experience

• • Economist and Senior Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

  • 2005 - present

Publications

• Li, Geng (Forthcoming). "Information Sharing and Stock Market Participation: Evidence from Extended Families," Review of Economics and Statistics.
• Hurst, Erik, Geng Li, and Benjamin Pugsley (Forthcoming). "Are Household Surveys Like Tax Forms: Evidence from Income Underreporting of the Self Employed," Review of Economics and Statistics.
• Johnson, Kathleen W., and Geng Li (Forthcoming). "Are Adjustable-Rate Mortgage Borrowers Borrowing Constrained?"
  Real Estate Economics.
• Li, Geng, and James Feigenbaum (2012). "Life-Cycle Dynamics of Income Uncertainty and Consumption," B. E. Journal of Macroeconomics: Advances, Vol. 12, no. 1.
• Han, Song, and Geng Li (2011). "Household Borrowing After Personal Bankruptcy," Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, vol. 43, no. 2-3, pp. 491-517.
• Johnson, Kathleen W., and Geng Li (2010). "The Debt-Payment-to-Income Ratio as an Indicator of Borrowing Constraints: Evidence from Two Household Surveys," Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, vol. 42, no. 7, pp. 1373-1390.
• Li, Geng, and Paul A. Smith (2010). "401(k) Loans and Household Balance Sheets," National Tax Journal, vol. 63, no. 3, pp. 479-508.
• Li, Geng, Robert F. Schoeni, Sheldon Danziger, and Kerwin Kofi Charles (2010). "New Expenditure Data in the PSID: Comparisons with the CE," Monthly Labor Review, vol. 133, no. 2, pp. 29-39.
• Li, Geng (2009). "Transaction Costs and Consumption," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 1263-1277.
• Coulibaly, Brahima, and Geng Li (2009). "Choice of Mortgage Contracts: Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances," Real Estate Economics, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 659-673.
• Johnson, Kathleen W., and Geng Li (2009). "Household Liability Data in the Consumer Expenditure Survey," Monthly Labor Review, vol. 132, no. 12, pp. 18-27.
• Coulibaly, Brahima, and Geng Li (2006). "Do Homeowners Increase Consumption After the Last Mortgage Payment? an Alternative Test of the Permanent Income Hypothesis," Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 88, no. 1, pp. 10-19.
• Sauer, Christine, Kishore Gawande, and Geng Li (2003). "Big Push Industrialization: Some Empirical Evidence for East Asia and Eastern Europe," Economics Bulletin, vol. 15, no. 9, pp. 1-7.
• Li, Geng (2012). "Gamblers as Personal Finance Activists," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2012-18. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Li, Dan, and Geng Li (2011). "Belief Dispersion among Household Investors and Stock Trading Volume," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2011-39. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Han, Song, Benjamin J. Keys, and Geng Li (2011). "Credit Supply to Personal Bankruptcy Filers: Evidence from Credit Card Mailings," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2011-29. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Feigenbaum, James, and Geng Li (2011). "Household Income Uncertainties Over Three Decades," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2011-25. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Li, Geng (2009). "Do Constraints on Market Work Hours Change Home Production Efforts?" Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2009-21. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Li, Geng (2007). "Learning by Investing--Embodied Technology and Business Cycles," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2007-15. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Charles, Kerwin Kofi, Sheldon Danziger, Geng Li, and Robert F. Schoeni (2007). "Studying Consumption with the Panel Study of Income Dynamics: Comparisons with the Consumer Expenditure Survey and an Application to the Intergenerational Transmission of Well-being," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2007-16. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).

Presentations

• conference

  January 2012

  AEA Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois

  Credit Supply to Bankrupt Consumers

• conference

  April 2011

  University of Cambridge Conference on Consumer Credit, Cambridge, England

  Credit Supply to Bankrupt Consumers

• conference

  July 2010

  Society of Economic Dynamics, Montreal, QC, Canada

  Credit Supply to Bankrupt Consumers

• conference

  June 2010

  LAEF Conference on Credit, Default, and Bankruptcy, Santa Barbara, California

  Credit Supply to Bankrupt Consumers

• conference

  October 2011

  CFS-EIEF Conference on Household Finance, Rome, Italy

  Gamblers as the Personal Finance Activists

• conference

  September 2010

  Federal Reserve System Financial Committee Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio

  Belief Dispersion among Household Investors and Stock Trading Volume

• conference

  May 2009

  Federal Reserve System Applied Micro Meeting, Kansas City, Missouri

  Household Borrowing after Personal Bankruptcy

• conference

  May 2009

  Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Conference on Bank Structure and Competition, Chicago, Illinois

  Household Borrowing after Personal Bankruptcy

• conference

  July 2009

  NBER Summer Institute, Cambridge, England

  Life Cycle Dynamics of Income Uncertainty and Consumption

• conference

  July 2009

  Society of Economic Dynamics, Istanbul, Turkey

  Life Cycle Dynamics of Income Uncertainty and Consumption

• conference

  June 2008

  Society of Computational Economics and Finance, Paris, France

  Life Cycle Dynamics of Income Uncertainty and Consumption

• conference

  June 2008

  Econometric Society Summer Meetings, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania

  Life Cycle Dynamics of Income Uncertainty and Consumption

• seminar

  April 2008

  SUNY Stony Brook

  Life Cycle Dynamics of Income Uncertainty and Consumption

• seminar

  November 2008

  Utah State University

  401(k) Loans and Household Balance Sheets

Other Activities