CV

Experience

Financial Economist
Federal Housing Finance Agency; Washington, D.C., 2010-Present
Analyzes the private-label mortgage-backed securities holdings of Federal Home Loan Banks. Writes software to improve collection and processing of information and designs databases used in monitoring corporate governance practices. Analyzed director compensation proposals, senior management structure, and succession planning at the FHLBanks. Performs ad-hoc analyses to inform regulatory actions and decisions regarding litigation.

Economist
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis; Washington, D.C., 2006-2010
Wrote and maintained software used for reviewing and editing GDP by Metropolitan Area estimates. Maintained other software used to produce GDP estimates for states and metropolitan areas. Refined estimation methodologies and conducted independent research. Developed database model for metropolitan area estimates and introduced geographic information systems technology to the division. Received a promotion from GS-7 to GS-11 in June 2008.

Research Assistant
Northwestern University Economics Department; Evanston, IL, 2003-2004
Performed literature reviews, compiled data sets, and executed statistical analysis. Majority of work performed for Dr. Lynne Kiesling.

Education

George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia — M.A. Economics, 2009

Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois — B.A. Economics (with honors) and Political Science, 2004

Skills

Programming
Visual Basic, C, Scheme, SQL

Statistical software
Stata, SAS, Matlab, R, SPSS

Other software
ArcGIS, Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office Suite

Awards

Department of Commerce Gold Medal Award
Scientific/Engineering Achievement, December 2009

Department of Commerce Silver Medal Award
Personal and Professional Excellence, October 2010

Selected Papers

Gross Domestic Product by Metropolitan Area: Accelerated Statistics for 2008, New Statistics for 2007, and Revised Statistics for 2005-2006
Matthew McCormick, Sharon Panek, and Ralph Rodriguez
Survey of Current Business, October 2009

Introducing New Measures of the Metropolitan Economy: Prototype GDP-by-Metropolitan-Area Estimates for 2001-2005
Sharon Panek, Frank Baumgardner, and Matthew McCormick
Survey of Current Business, November 2007

Motor Gasoline Price Levels and Volatility: The Cost of Regulation Without Coordination
Matthew McCormick
Senior honors thesis, May 2004

A Federal Ethanol Mandate: Is it Worth It? If Not, Why is it Succeeding?
Matthew McCormick, Scott Freifeld, and Lynne Kiesling
Reason Public Policy Institute Policy Study no. 315, November 2003