Raymond Geddes
Prof Assoc
2007
PAMWeb Bio Page
Current Activities
Current Research Activities
A primary focus of Rick’s research is public policy
toward both privately owned, publicly traded firms, as well as state-owned
enterprises. He is currently examining the role of private investment in
funding surface transportation infrastructure in the United States. Rick is also
researching the effects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on small, publicly traded
firms. A second current focus is on the effects of historical changes in state law affecting married women, which include such changes as the granting of
property rights, the right to market earnings, and the right to own a business,
on various outcomes such as women’s literacy and schooling.
Biography
Biographical Statement
Rick Geddes is associate professor in the Department of
Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell
University. His research fields
include corporate governance, women’s property rights, surface transportation
policy, postal services, and antitrust. Rick has completed books on postal
reform and antitrust issues arising from competition between the public and
private sectors. He is currently writing a book on public-private partnerships
in surface transportation. Rick teaches courses on corporate governance and the
regulation of industry.
In addition to his teaching and research at Cornell, Rick
served as a commissioner on the National Surface Transportation Policy and
Revenue Study Commission, which submitted its report to Congress in January
2008. He has held positions as a senior staff economist on the President’s
Council of Economic Advisers, a Visiting Faculty Fellow at Yale Law School, and a National Fellow at the Hoover
Institution at Stanford
University. He received
his PhD in economics from the University
of Chicago in 1991, and his bachelor’s
degree in economics and finance from Towson
State University
in 1984.
In 2007, Rick received the Human Ecology Award for Outstanding Accomplishments
in Extension/Outreach in Public Policy. His published work has appeared in the American
Economic Review, the Journal of Regulatory Economics, the Encyclopedia
of Law and Economics, the Journal of Legal Studies, the Journal
of Law, Economics, and Organization, the Journal of Law and Economics, and Managerial and Decision Economics.
Education
PhD 1991 - University of Chicago, Economics
MA 1988 - University of Chicago, Economics
BS 1984 - Towson University, Economics and Finance
Courses, Websites, Pubs
Courses Taught
PAM 334: Corporations, Shareholders, and Policy
PAM 200: Intermediate Microeconomics
PAM 340: Economics of Consumer Policy
Related Websites
http://www.human.cornell.edu/che/Features/upload/cv106rrg.pdf
Publications
“Pricing
by State-Owned Enterprises: The Case of Postal Services” Managerial and Decision
Economics (forthcoming).
“Real
Estate Brokerage and E-Commerce: A Framework for Empirical Analysis,” Journal
of Law, Economics, and Policy 3:2 (Spring 2007) 365-384.
"Policy Watch: Reform of the U.S.
Postal Service," Journal of Economic Perspectives 19:3 (Summer 2005)
217-232.
"The Gains from Self-Ownership and the Expansion of
Women's Rights", American Economic Review 92:4 (September 2002).
"CEO Tenure, Board Composition, and Regulation", Journal of
Regulatory Economics, 21:2 (2002) 217-235.
"The Rule of One-Third", Journal of Legal Studies 31:1 (January 2002)
119-137.
"Public Utilities," in Geerit De Geest and Boudewijn Bouckaert,
(eds.), The Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, Vol. III: The Regulation of
Contracts, London:
Edward Elgar (2000) 1162-1205.