Professional Experience

• • Senior Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

  • 2009 - present

• • Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

  • 1999 - 2009

• • Economist

    Bureau of Labor Statistics

  • 1998 - 1999

• • Visiting Scholar

    Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

  • 1995 - 1998

Publications

• Mills, David C.,Jr., and Travis D. Nesmith (2008). "Risk and Concentration in Payment and Securities Settlement Systems," Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 542-553.
• Nesmith, Travis D., and Barry E. Jones (2008). "Linear Cointegration of Nonlinear Time Series with an Application to Interest Rate Dynamics," Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, Vol. 12, no. 1, article 6.
• Nesmith, Travis D. (2007). "Rational Seasonality," in Barnett, William A., Apostolos Serletis eds., Functional Structure Inference 18. London and New York: Elsevier.
• Barnett, William A., Barry E. Jones, and Travis D. Nesmith (2004). "Time Series Cointegration Tests and Nonlinearity," in Barnett, William,A., Jane Binner eds., Functional Structure and Approximation in Econometrics, Vol. 261. Amsterdam; San Diego and Oxford: Elsevier JAI, pp. 549-567.
• Anderson, Richard G., Barry E. Jones, and Travis D. Nesmith (2000). "Introduction to the St. Louis Monetary Services Index Project," in Barnett, William,A., Serletis Apostolos eds., The Theory of Monetary Aggregation. North-Holland: Elsevier Science, pp. 610-616.
• Barnett, William A., Barry E. Jones, and Travis D. Nesmith (2000). "Time Series Cointegration Tests and Non-Linearity," in Barnett, William,A. ed., Nonlinear Econometric Modeling in Time Series: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium in Economic Theory. Cambridge; New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, pp. 9-30.
• Anderson, Richard G., Barry E. Jones, and Travis D. Nesmith (1997). "Introduction to the St. Louis Monetary Services Index Project," Federal Reserve Bank of St.Louis Review, vol. 79, no. 1, pp. 25-29.
• Anderson, Richard G., Barry E. Jones, and Travis D. Nesmith (1997). "Building New Monetary Services Indexes: Concepts, Data and Methods," Federal Reserve Bank of St.Louis Review, vol. 79, no. 1, pp. 53-82.
• Anderson, Richard G., Barry E. Jones, and Travis D. Nesmith (1997). "Monetary Aggregation Theory and Statistical Index Numbers," Federal Reserve Bank of St.Louis Review, vol. 79, no. 1, pp. 31-51.
• Barnett, William, Barry Jones, and Travis Nesmith (2008). "Divisia Second Moments: An Application of Stochastic Index Number Theory," Working papers series in theoretical and applied economics 200803. University of Kansas, Department of Economics.
• Mills, David C., Jr., and Travis D. Nesmith (2007). "Risk and Concentration in Payment and Securities Settlement Systems," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2007-62. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Jones, Barry E., and Travis D. Nesmith (2007). "Linear Cointegration of Nonlinear Time Series with an Application to Interest Rate Dynamics," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2007-03. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Nesmith, Travis D. (2007). "Rational Seasonality," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2007-04. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Nesmith, Travis D. (2005). "Solving Stochastic Money-in-the-Utility-Function Models," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2005-52. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Barnett, William, Barry Jones, Milka Kirova, Travis Nesmith, and Meenakshi Pasupathy1 (2004). "The Nonlinear Skeletons in the Closet," Working Papers Series in Theoretical and Applied Economics 200403. University of Kansas, Department of Economics.
• Jones, Barry E., and Travis D. Nesmith (1999). "Tests for Non-Linear Dynamics in Systems of Non-Stationary Economic Time Series: The Case of Short-Term US Interest Rates," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 1999-55. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Nesmith, Travis Dean (2000). "Aggregation Theory and Statistical Index Numbers," Ph.D dissertation, Washington University.

Presentations

• conference

  March 2008

  Risk Symposium, Los Alamos National Laboratory

• conference

  January 2007

  Policy Workshop on Recent Payments Research, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

• seminar

  Decemberr 2006

  Workshop on Money and Payments, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

• conference

  August 2006

  Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamical Methods and Time Series Analysis, University of Udine, Italy

• seminar

  July 2006

  IMF Departmental Seminar Series, International Monetary Fund

• conference

  May 2006

  Midwest Macroeconomics Conference, St. Louis, Missouri

• seminar

  March 2006

  Macro-economics and International Finance Seminar Series, George Washington University

• conference

  October 2005

  Midwest Economic Theory Conference, University of Kansas

• seminar

  April 2005

  Oswald Distinguished Seminar Series, University of Kansas

• conference

  May 2004

  Midwest Macroeconomics Conference, Ames, Iowa

• conference

  June 2000

  Issues in Measuring Price Change and Consumption Conference, Bureau of Labor Statistics

• conference

  March 1999

  Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, New York City

• conference

  April 1998

  Midwest Macroeconomics Conference, St. Louis, Missouri

• conference

  March 1998

  Midwest Economics Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois

• seminar

  January 1998

  Washington University Economic Theory Seminar, St. Louis, Missouri

• conference

  October 1996

  International Atlantic Economic Conference, Washington, D.C.

• conference

  March 1996

  Missouri Valley Economic Association, Memphis, Tennessee

• seminar

  Fecruary 1996

  Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri

Other Activities