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William J. Wilhelm Jr.

Professor of Commerce
Ph.D., Business Administration (Finance), Louisiana State University, 1988
M.A., Economics, Wichita State University, 1984
B.B.A., Wichita State University, 1981

Bill Wilhelm is an investment-banking specialist whose research focuses on securities underwriting practices and regulation, securities market design, and the industrial organization of financial markets. His work has been published in the American Economic Review; the Journal of Finance; the Journal of Financial Economics; the Review of Financial Studies; the Journal of Financial Intermediation; the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking; the Oxford Review of Economic Policy; and the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance. His book, “Information Markets” (2001, Harvard Business School Press), explains how advances in information technology are transforming financial markets and product markets generally. He currently is working on an economic, organizational, and technological history of the investment banking industry.

Wilhelm has taught courses on investments, derivatives, financial institutions, investment banking, and the organizational design of financial services firms. He is the recipient of the Best Elective Lecturer at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford (1998/99).

Wilhelm began his academic career in 1988 at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. Prior to joining the McIntire School in 2002, he held the American Standard Companies Chair in Management Studies at the Saïd Business School and was a Professorial Fellow of St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, where he began serving as a Visiting Fellow in 1998. Wilhelm also has held visiting appointments at the Institut d’Economie Industrielle (IDEI) in Toulouse, France and at the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation. He has worked as a consultant for the Resolution Trust Corporation, Dresdner Securities, London Economics, Oxford Economic Research Associates, and in executive education for the ING Group.

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