Robert M. Hunt

Robert M. Hunt is a senior vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, associate director of the Consumer Finance Institute, and director of the Payment Cards Center (PCC). Before joining the PCC, he was a senior economist in the Philadelphia Fed’s Research Department. His research has focused on consumer payments, consumer finance, and the economics of innovation.  His published research includes studies of payment cards, mortgage default, adoption of new payment technologies, consumer credit reporting, identity theft, credit counseling organizations, the collections industry, regulation, and antitrust issues in consumer payment networks. He has also published papers on topics in economic geography and intellectual property. Before joining the Philadelphia Fed in 1998, Hunt worked for the U.S. Congressional Budget Office. Before attending graduate school, he was an industry risk analyst for Bank One in Indianapolis. Hunt has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in political science and economics from Butler University.