Dr. W. Scott Frame has joined the Belk College as professor of finance.
Dr. Frame comes to the Belk College from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, where he was a financial economist and senior policy advisor. While at the Federal Reserve, Dr. Frame was involved in the response to the financial crisis in various ways. He was a special advisor to the Treasury Department during 2008 and assisted with the conservatorships for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In 2009, Dr. Frame also was part of the team implementing the Federal Reserve’s Term Asset-Backed Lending Facility 9. He also acted as a consultant to the President’s Council of Economic Advisers in 2010.
At the Belk College, he will teach courses in real estate finance in the MBA and M.S. in Real Estate programs.
Dr. Frame holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Georgia. He has published over 30 articles in a number of scholarly journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Business, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, the Journal of Economic Literature, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. Dr. Frame is also an associate editor of three banking and finance journals and active in several professional associations.