Professor of the Graduate School
Finance | Economic Analysis & Policy
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
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- Macroeconomics, UGBA 101B
