Jeffrey S. Allen

Lead Fin Inst Policy Analyst Reserve Bank Operations and Payment Systems

202-452-6429
jeff.allen@frb.gov

Lead Fin Inst Policy Analyst
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2025 - present
Lecturer
Johns Hopkins University
2023 - present
Senior Fin Inst Policy Analyst II
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2023 - 2025
Risk Modeling and Analytics Specialist
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
2021 - 2023
Consultant
World Bank Group
2017 - 2021
Senior Manager
Conference of State Bank Supervisors
2009 - 2013

CardSim: A Bayesian Simulator for Payment Card Fraud Detection Research
Jeffrey S. Allen
Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2025)
https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2025.017
Pay it forward (digitally): sizing up the global impact of electronic wages on digital payment usage
Jeffrey S. Allen
Journal of Economics and Finance (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12197-023-09645-8
Primary and Secondary Markets for Stablecoins
Cy Watsky, Jeffrey Allen, Hamzah Daud, Jochen Demuth, Daniel Little, Megan Rodden, and Amber Seira
FEDS Notes (2024)
https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.3447
Assessing incentives to increase digital payment acceptance and usage: A machine learning approach
Jeff Allen, Santiago Carbo-Valverde, Sujit Chakravorti, Francisco Rodriguez-Fernandez, and Oya Pinar Ardic
PLoS ONE (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0276203
Do Targeted Trade Sanctions Against Chinese Technology Companies Affect US Firms? Evidence from an Event Study
Jeffrey S. Allen
Business and Politics (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1017/bap.2020.21
Verboten: Essays on Targeted Trade Sanctions and U.S. Stakeholders
Jeffrey S. Allen
Dissertations (Johns Hopkins University) (2020)

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