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R. Alton Gilbert Vice President and Banking Economics Advisor

Alton Gilbert retired on June 1, 2004. He can be contacted at gilberteconomics@charter.net

Major Research Interest:

Effects of regulation on financial institutions, including microeconomic effects and implications for macroeconomic policies.

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Research

Books and Conference Proceedings

"Can Feedback From the Jumbo CD Market Improve Off-Site Surveillance of Community Banks?"
with A. Meyer and M. Vaughan
in G. Kaufman, ed., Prompt Corrective Action Ten Years Latter, New York, JAI/Elsevier Press, 2002, 14, Part I.

"Comments on Financial Reform and Stability: Systemic Issues"
The Asian Regional Seminar
Hyderabad, India - March 29-31, 2001

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Academic Journals

"Reducing the Risk at Small Community Banks: Is it Size or Geographic Diversification that Matters?"
with William R. Emmons and Timothy J. Yeager
Journal of Financial Services Research, April 2004, 25(2-3), pp. 259-81.

"New Evidence on the Fed's Productivity in Providing Payments Services"
with David C. Wheelock, and Paul W. Wilson
Journal of Banking and Finance, September 2004, 28(9), pp. 2175-90.

"Do Depositors Care about Enforcement Actions?"
with Mark D. Vaughan
The Journal of Economics and Business, March/June 2001, 53(2/3), pp. 283-311.

"Effects of Federal Reserve Services on the Efficiency of the System for Collecting Checks in the United States: 1915-30."
Explorations in Economic History, April 2000, 37(2), pp. 121-48.
Published under the title "The Advent of the Federal Reserve and the Efficiency of the Payments System: The Collection of Checks, 1915-30"

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Review Articles

"Measuring Commercial Bank Profitability: Proceed with Caution"
with David C. Wheelock
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, November/December 2007, 89(6), pp. 515-32.

"Banking Antitrust: Are the Assumptions Still Valid?"
with Adam M. Zaretsky
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, November/December 2003, 85(6), pp. 29-52.

"Editor's Introduction to the Proceedings of the Twenty - Seventh Annual Economic Policy Conference"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, July/August 2003, 85(4), pp. 3-6.

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Other Federal Reserve Publications

"Can Feedback from the Jumbo-CD Market Improve Bank Surveillance?"
with Andrew P. Meyer and Mark D. Vaughan
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Quarterly, Spring 2006, 92(2), pp. 135-75.

Education

Degree	Institution	Major	Date
Ph.D.	Texas A&M University	Economics	1972
B.A.	Lamar University	Economics	1966