James A. Wilcox is a former James J. and Marianne B. Lowery Chair and professor of

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. A current employee at

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and research fellow at

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, Wilcox was a professor of economics since 1978. He obtained his Ph.D. in

from

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and BA in history and economics from

Binghamton University The State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton University or SUNY Binghamton) is a public university, public research university with campuses in Binghamton, New York, Binghamton, Vestal, New York, Vestal, and Johnson City, New Yor ...

. From 1990 to 1991, Wilcox was a senior economist at the

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during last term of

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. He then served as an economist for the

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and from 1999 to 2001 was a chief economist at the

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After becoming a fellow of Wharton Financial Institutions Center in 2003, Wilcox chaired the Economic Analysis and Policy Group from 2012 to 2015 and from 2014 to 2016 was member of board of directors of VirtualBeam. Since 2012 he also serves on member of board of directors of Finance Scholars Group and since 2016 is a member of the Financial Economists Roundtable.

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