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James R. Barth
Senior Finance Fellow
Ph.D., Economics, Ohio State University
Email: jbarth@milkeninstitute.org
James R. Barth is the Lowder Eminent Scholar in Finance at Auburn University and a Senior Finance Fellow at the Milken Institute. His research has focused on financial institutions and capital markets, both domestic and global, with special emphasis on regulatory issues. Most recently, he served as leader of an international team advising the People's Bank of China on banking reform.
Barth was an appointee of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush as chief economist of the Office of Thrift Supervision until November 1989 and has previously served as the chief economist of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. He has also held the positions of professor of economics at George Washington University, associate director of the economics program at the National Science Foundation and Shaw Foundation Professor of Banking and Finance at Nanyang Technological University. He has been a visiting scholar at the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the World Bank. He is a member of the Advisory Council of George Washington University's Financial Services Research Program.
Barth's expertise in financial institution and capital market issues has led him to testify before the U.S. House and Senate banking committees on several occasions. He has authored more than 200 articles in professional journals and has written and edited several books, including The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Mortgage and Credit Markets: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Meltdown, China's Emerging Markets: Challenges and Opportunities, The Great Savings and Loan Debacle and The Reform of Federal Deposit Insurance. Other recent books are Rethinking Bank Regulation: Till Angels Govern, with Jerry Caprio and Ross Levine, and Financial Restructuring and Reform in Post-WTO China, with Zhongfei Zhou, Douglas Arner, Berry Hsu and Wei Wang. Barth is the overseas associate editor of The Chinese Banker and has been quoted in publications ranging from The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal to Time and Newsweek. In addition, he has appeared on such broadcast programs as "The McNeil/Lehrer Newshour," "Good Morning America," "Moneyline" and National Public Radio.
Barth serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Financial Services Research, Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies, Journal of Economics and Finance and Financial Services Review. He is also included in Who's Who in Economics: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Economists, 1700 to 1995.
Barth received a Ph.D. in economics from Ohio State University.
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"Comparative International Characteristics of Banking"
James R. Barth, Gerard Caprio, Jr. and Daniel E. Nolle
2004
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Economics and Policy Analysis Working Paper
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"Global Trends in Bank Regulatory and Supervisory Environment"
James R. Barth, Jie Gan and Daniel E. Nolle, in Duk-Hoon Lee and Gill-Chin Lim, editors
2004
Reforms and Innovations in Bank Management Seoul, Korea: NANAM Publishing House and Woori Bank
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"A Cross-Country Analysis of the Bank Supervisory Framework and Bank Performance"
Glenn Yago with James Barth, Daniel E. Nolle, and Triphon Phumiwasana
2003
Financial Markets, Institutions & Instruments
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"An International Comparison and Assessment of the Structure of Bank Supervision"
James R. Barth, Luis G. Dopico, Daniel E. Nolle, and James A. Wilcox
2003
Financial Regulation: A Guide to Structural Reform Jan-Juy Lin and Douglas Arner, editors, Hong Kong: Sweet & Maxwell
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"Before the Enron Collapse: What Corporate CFOs around the World Said About the Status of Accounting and Disclosure Practices"
Glenn Yago with James Barth and Susanne Trimbath
2003
Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies
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"Choosing Regulations that Work"
James R. Barth, Gerald Caprio, Jr. and Ross Levine
December
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The Financial Regulator
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"Banking Systems Around the Globe: Do Regulation and Ownership Affect Performance and Stability?"
James R. Barth, Gerard Caprio, Jr. and Ross Levine
2001
Prudential Supervision: What Works and What Doesn't, Frederic S. Mishkin, editor, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
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"The Regulation and Supervision of Banks Around the World: A New Database"
James R. Barth, Gerard Caprio, Jr. and Ross Levine
2001
Brookings-Wharton Papers on Financial Services, Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press
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"The S&L Crisis, 10 Years Later: Government Errors Caused the Problems and They Still Do"
James R. Barth
September
20, 1999
Financial Post
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"The East Asian Banking Crisis: Governments vs. Markets"
Glenn Yago, James R. Barth, R. Dan Brumbaugh, Jr. and Lalita Ramesh
1998
Jobs & Capital 7 , no. 3/4
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Research in International Business and Finance: Emerging Challenges for the International Financial Services Industry
James R. Barth with Philip F. Bartholomew
1992
JAI Press
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The Future of American Banking
James R. Barth with R. Dan Brumbaugh and Robert E. Litan
1992
M.E. Sharpe
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The Reform of Federal Deposit Insurance: Disciplining the Government and Protecting Taxpayers
James R. Barth with R. Dan Brumbaugh
1992
Harper Business
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The Great Savings and Loan Debacle
James R. Barth
1991
Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute Press
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