James Wilkinson, Assistant Vice President and Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of
Kansas City1 Memorial Drive
Kansas City, Missouri 64198
Email: Jim.Wilkinson@kc.frb.org
Jim Wilkinson is an Assistant Vice President and Economist in the Banking Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. He conducts research on banking and financial markets topics with an emphasis on regulatory and policy issues. Mr. Wilkinson supports the Bank's senior management by preparing analyses, briefings, and recommendations on regulatory and policy issues.
Prior to returning to the Bank in 2008, Mr. Wilkinson provided consulting services to financial institutions in the areas of capital markets and asset/liability management. Previously, Mr. Wilkinson held positions as Economist, Senior Examiner, and Examining Officer at the Federal Reserve Banks of Kansas City and Richmond. He started his career as an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri at Columbia. Mr. Wilkinson received a B.A. in economics and political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1979 and a Ph.D. in economics from Vanderbilt University in 1985. He graduated with distinction from the ABA’s Stonier Graduate School of Banking in 1993.
July 2009
Banking Publications
"Quality Assurance Testing for Interest Rate Risk Models" Financial Managers Society White Paper, March 2006.
Asset/Liability Management Basics for Community Financial Institutions. Chicago: Financial Managers Society, 2004.
With Craig J. Cerny and Michael J. Giarla, "Managing Interest Rate Risk at a Savings Institution," in Anthony Cornyn, Jess Lederman, and Robert A. Klein (eds.) Controlling and Managing Interest-Rate Risk. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: New York Institute of Finance, 1997.
Explaining Agricultural Bank Failures: a Neural Network Approach. Thesis: Stonier Graduate School of Banking, June 1993.
"Bank Holding Company Performance, 1991," Financial Industry Trends, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Annual 1992.