James A. Wilcox
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Ph.D., Northwestern University
B.A., S.U.N.Y.
Jim Wilcox is the James J. and Marianne B. Lowrey Chair in Business at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. Jim teaches courses in financial markets and institutions, business conditions analysis, forecasting, and risk management. He has written extensively on regulation and supervision of commercial banks, effects of bank merger activity, real estate finance and housing prices, lending to small businesses, monetary policy, and business conditions. He has published articles in the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Housing Economics, and the Review of Economics and Statistics.
In 1999, Jim became the first Chief Economist at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. He also has served as the senior economist for monetary policy and macroeconomics for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and as an economist for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Jim holds a B.A. in economics and history from S.U.N.Y. Binghamton and a Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University.
