Rick Geddes

About

Rick Geddes is a professor in the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy and a professor of economics at Cornell University. At Cornell, he is founding director of the Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy and a member of the graduate fields of systems engineering, regional science, and economics. He is concurrently a nonresident senior scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC.

Geddes has published more than fifty peer-reviewed journal articles on a wide variety of topics. His research centers on the funding, financing, and delivery of major infrastructure projects, road pricing, and utility regulation, among other areas. His articles have appeared in numerous academic journals, including Nature, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Regulatory Economics, the Journal of Legal Studies, the Journal of Law and Economics, and the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization. He is author of The Road to Renewal: Private Investment in U.S. Transportation Infrastructure (American Enterprise Institute, 2011). Geddes holds MA and PhD degrees in economics from the University of Chicago and a BS in economics and finance from Towson State University.