Rick Geddes

Rick Geddes is Associate Professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University. Geddes is an expert on antitrust, transportation and infrastructure policy, energy, regulation of industry, corporate governance, and the economic condition of women. He served as a commissioner on the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission from 2006 until 2008. Geddes has been a consultant to the Federal Trade Commission and has testified before committees of the U.S. House of Representatives. From 2004 to 2005 he was a senior staff economist on the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President.

Geddes is the author or editor of three books: Competing with the Government: Anticompetitive Behavior and Public Enterprises (Hoover Institution Press 2004), Saving the Mail: How to Solve the Problems of the U.S. Postal Service (AEI Press 2003), and Private Investment in U.S. Surface Transportation (forthcoming AEI Press). His academic articles have appeared in the American Economic Review, the Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, the Journal of Law and Economics, the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, the Journal of Legal Studies, the Journal of Regulatory Economics, Managerial and Decision Economics, Resource and Energy Economics, and the Review of Industrial Organization, among many others. His opinion pieces have appeared in The New Republic, the Washington Post, the Weekly Standard, and elsewhere.

Geddes was a Visiting Faculty Fellow at Yale Law School in 1995-1996 and a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in 1999-2000. He is a member of the advisory board of Systems Alliance, Inc. He taught in the economics department at Fordham University from 1991 to 2002.

Geddes holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of Chicago and a B.A. from Towson University in economics and finance.