James W. Kolari

Professor Kolari is a Professor of Finance in the Department of Finance at Texas A&M University. He has taught financial institutions and markets classes there since 1980 and been active in international education, consulting, and executive education. Receiving a PhD in Finance from Arizona Station University in 1980, he today holds the JP Morgan Chase Professorship in Finance in the Mays Business School. In 1986 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Helsinki and the Bank of Finland. He has served as a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago in 1982-1983, Senior Research Fellow at the Swedish School of Business and Economics (Hanken), Vaasa, Finland, and Faculty Fellow with the Mortgage Bankers Association of America, in addition to being a consultant to the U.S. Small Business Administration, U.S. Information Agency, American Bankers Association, Independent Bankers Association of America, and numerous banks and other organizations. He has worked as an advisor on the North American Free Trade Agreement for the State of Texas, consultant for the Mexican government in financing technology, and member of the Academy of Sciences for Higher Education in Russia. With over 100 articles published in refereed journals, numerous other papers and monographs, 25 co-authored books, and over 100 competitive papers presented at academic conferences, he ranks in the top 1-2 percent of finance scholars in the United States, according to recently published guides of research productivity among finance professors. His papers have appeared in such domestic and international journals as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Business, Review of Financial Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Banking and Finance, Critical Finance Review, Journal of Financial Research, Real Estate Economics, Journal of International Money and Finance, and the Scandanavian Journal of Economics. Papers in Russian, Finnish, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, and Chinese have appeared outside of the United States. He is a co-author of leading college textbooks in introductory business, international business, asset pricing, and commercial banking courses.

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