Professor
Economic Analysis and Policy | Finance
Expertise and Research Interests
- Small Business Lending
- Bank Mergers and Acquisitions
- Banking
- Business Conditions
- Consumer Spending
- Unemployment And Inflation
- Federal Reserve Monetary Policy And Interest Rates
- Credit Union Failures And Losses
- James A.Wilcox, Yukihiro Yasuda. Government Guarantees of Loans to Small Businesses: Effects on Banks’ Risk-Taking and Non-Guaranteed Lending. Journal of Financial Intermediation.
2018 - James A. Wilcox. The Home Purchase Sentiment Index: A New Housing Indicator. Business Economics.
2015 - James A. Wilcox, John R. Krainer.. Regime Shifts in Real Estate Markets: Time-Varying Effects of the U.S. and Japanese Economies on House Prices in Hawaii. Real Estate Economics.
2013 - James A. Wilcox. A Way to Make People Buy Homes Again. The New York Times.
2012 - James A. Wilcox. Underwriting, Mortgage Lending, and House Prices: 1996 – 2008. Business Economics,.
2009
Positions Held
1978 – present, Professor, Haas School of Business
2016 – present, Member, Financial Economists Roundtable
2014 – 2016, Member, Board of Directors, VirtualBeam, Inc.
2012 – present, Member, Board of Directors, Finance Scholars Group
2012 – 2015, Chair, Economic Analysis and Policy Group, Haas School of Business
2003 – present, Fellow, Wharton Financial Institutions Center
1999 – 2001, Chief Economist, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, DC
1991 – 1992, Economist, Federal Reserve Board
1990 – 1991, Senior Economist, President’s Council of Economic Advisers
- Member, Advisory Board: North American Economics and Finance Association
- Treasurer and Member, Board of Directors, Cal State 9 Credit Union
- Economic and financial consulting
Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching
1997
Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching
1995
Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching
1987
- Economy’s rough road to recovery after dismal 2020, KTVU Fox 2, 01/03/2021
- How the proposed stimulus deal would impact Bay Area families, KRON4, 12/23/2020
- Unemployed in search of relief amid pandemic fallout, Fox News, 12/16/2020
- Former colleague of Janet Yellen reacts to her historic nomination, KTVU Fox 2, 11/30/2020
- California, Engine of U.S. Economy, Reeling From Double Blow of COVID-19 and Wildfires, Newsweek, 09/18/2020
- Virus talks on brink of collapse, sides still ‘far apart’, KTVU Fox 2, 08/07/2020
- Slight decrease in California unemployment claims as numbers rise nationwide, KTVU Fox 2, 07/30/2020
- KPIX Investigation Reveals Paycheck Protection Program Is Vulnerable To Fraud, KPIX5 CBS, 07/24/2020
- GOP outlines priorities for next coronavirus relief bill, KTVU Fox 2, 07/21/2020
- Congress faces pressure to deal with ‘roller coaster recovery’ amid pandemic, Politico, 07/15/2020
- Anger over PPP greed is justified. It also might not matter as much as the results, The Tacoma News Tribune, 07/11/2020
- Almost 1 in 6 Californian workers is unemployed, San Francisco Chronicle, 06/19/2020
- Investors Largely Tune Out Jobs Report but Dow Closes on a Low, Courthouse News, 05/21/2020
- Coronavirus Pandemic: Uncertainty over kickstarting the economy after COVID-19, ABC7, 05/15/2020
- UC Berkeley professor talks unemployment, KTVU Fox 2, 05/14/2020
- Macroeconomics, UGBA 101B