Professional Experience

• • Senior Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

  • 2008 - present

• • Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

  • 1999 - 2008

Publications

• Gerdes, Geoffrey R., and May X. Liu (2010). "Estimating Technology Adoption and Aggregate Volumes from U.S. Payments Surveys in the Presence of Complex Item Nonresponse," In Proceedings of the Survey Research Methods Section. American Statistical Association, pp. 5347-5358.
• Gerdes, Geoffrey, and Paul W. Bauer (2009). "The Check is Dead! Long Live the Check! A Check 21 Update," Economic Commentary Jun issue. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
• Gerdes, Geoffrey, Beilei Cai, and Trudy Ann Cameron (2009). "Distal Order Effects in Stated Preference Surveys," Ecological Economics, vol. 70, no. 6, pp. 1101-1108.
• Gerdes, Geoffrey R., May X. Liu, and Darrel W. Parke (2009). "Sample Design and Estimation of Volumes and Trends in the use of Paper Checks and Electronic Payment Methods in the United States," In Proceedings of the Survey Research Methods Section. American Statistical Association, pp. 2284-2295.
• Gerdes, Geoffrey R. (2008). "Recent Payment Trends in the United States," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 94, pp. A75-A106.
• Burghart, Daniel R., Trudy Ann Cameron, and Geoffrey R. Gerdes (2007). "Valuing Publicly Sponsored Research Projects: Risks, Scenario Adjustments, and Inattention," Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 77-105.
• Gerdes, Geoffrey R., Jack K. Walton II, May X. Liu, and Darrel W. Parke (2005). "Trends in the use of Payment Instruments in the United States," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 91, no. 2, pp. 180-201.
• Cameron, Trudy Ann, and Geoffrey R. Gerdes (2003). "Eliciting Individual-Specific Discount Rates," Economics Department Working Papers 2003-10. University of Oregon, Economics Department.
• Gerdes, Geoffrey R., and Jack K. Walton II (2002). "The use of Checks and Other Noncash Payment Instruments in the United States," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 88, no. 8, pp. 360-374.
• Gerdes, Geoffrey R. (2000). "Interactive Economics Instruction with Java and CGI," Journal of Economic Education, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 12-12.
• Gerdes, Geoffrey R. (1999). "The Construction and Performance of Vintage Portfolios for the NYSE, 1926-1996," Ph.D dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles.
• Dhawan, Rajeev, and Geoffrey Gerdes (1997). "Estimating Technological Change using a Stochastic Frontier Production Function Framework: Evidence from U.S. Firm-Level Data," Journal of Productivity Analysis, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 431-446.

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