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Overview

David C. Wheelock is affiliated with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on economics, econometrics, and finance, with a significant emphasis on banking stability, regulation, and efficiency. Additionally, their work covers key topics such as housing market and economics, global financial crisis and policies, economic theories and models, monetary policy and economic impact, Islamic finance and banking studies, and economic, financial, and policy analysis.

Wheelock's recent publications include:

  • "Comparing the COVID-19 Recession with the Great Depression" (2020) published in Economic Synopses
  • "Interbank connections, contagion and bank distress in the Great Depression" (2020) published in Journal of Financial Intermediation
  • "Banking on the Boom, Tripped by the Bust: Banks and the World War I Agricultural Price Shock" (2020) published in Journal of Money Credit and Banking
  • "A New Daily Federal Funds Rate Series and History of the Federal Funds Market, 1928-1954" (2020) published in Finance and Economics Discussion Series
  • "Interbank Networks and the Interregional Transmission of Financial Crises: Evidence from the Panic of 1907" (2023) published in SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Matthew Jaremski
  • Charles W. Calomiris
  • Sriya Anbil
  • Mark A. Carlson
  • Christopher Hanes

Wheelock's research has appeared repeatedly in several publication venues, notably:

  • Economic Synopses
  • Journal of Financial Intermediation
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Journal of Economic History
  • Journal of Money Credit and Banking

Their subfields of study reflect a diverse approach within economics and finance, including:

  • Finance
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Accounting
  • Modeling and Simulation

Overall, David C. Wheelock's body of work explores important economic phenomena linked to banking systems, financial crises, and monetary policy, contributing to academic understanding in both historical and contemporary contexts.

Best Publications

  • Why do banks disappear? The determinants of U.S. bank failures and acquisitions

    David C. Wheelock;Paul W. Wilson

  • Why do Banks Disappear? The Determinants of U.S. Bank Failures and Acquisitions

    David C. Wheelock;Paul W. Wilson

  • Technical progress, inefficiency and productivity change in U.S. banking, 1984-1993

    David C. Wheelock;Paul W. Wilson

  • Explaining Bank Failures: Deposit Insurance, Regulation, and Efficiency

    David C. Wheelock;Paul W. Wilson

  • Technical Progress, Inefficiency and Productivity Change in U.S. Banking, 1984-1993

    David C. Wheelock;Paul W. Wilson

  • Can the Term Spread Predict Output Growth and Recessions? A Survey of the Literature

    David C. Wheelock;Mark E. Wohar

  • Do Large Banks Have Lower Costs? New Estimates of Returns to Scale for U.S. Banks

    David C. Wheelock;Paul W. Wilson

  • Why Do Banks Fail? Evidence from the 1920s

    Lee J. Alston;Wayne A. Grove;David C. Wheelock

  • Aggregate price shocks and financial instability: A historical analysis

    Michael D. Bordo;Michael J. Dueker;David C. Wheelock

  • Evaluating the Efficiency of Commercial Banks: Does Our View of What Banks Do Matter?

    David C. Wheelock;Paul W. Wilson

  • New evidence on returns to scale and product mix among U.S. commercial banks

    David C Wheelock;Paul W Wilson

  • The Strategy and Consistency of Federal Reserve Monetary Policy, 1924–1933

    David C. Wheelock

  • Price Stability and Financial Stability: The Historical Record

    Michael D. Bordo;David C. Wheelock

  • Why Does Bank Performance Vary Across States

    Michelle Clark Neely;David C. Wheelock

  • Systemic Risk and the Financial Crisis: A Primer

    James Bullard;Christopher J. Neely;David C. Wheelock

  • Measuring Commercial Bank Profitability: Proceed With Caution

    R. Alton Gilbert;David C. Wheelock

  • DEPOSIT INSURANCE and BANK FAILURES: NEW EVIDENCE FROM THE 1920s

    David C. Wheelock

  • The Promise and Performance of the Federal Reserve as Lender of Last Resort 1914-1933

    Michael D. Bordo;David C. Wheelock

  • The Federal Response to Home Mortgage Distress: Lessons from the Great Depression

    David C. Wheelock

  • Which banks choose deposit insurance? Evidence of adverse and moral hazard in a voluntary insurance system

    David C. Wheelock;Subal C. Kumbhaker

  • Non-parametric, unconditional quantile estimation for efficiency analysis with an application to Federal Reserve check processing operations

    David C. Wheelock;Paul W. Wilson

  • Consolidation in US banking: which banks engage in mergers?

    David C. Wheelock;Paul W. Wilson

  • Explaining bank failures: deposit insurance, regulation, and efficiency

    David C. Wheelock;Paul W. Wilson

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul W. Wilson
Paul W. Wilson Clemson University
Michael D. Bordo
Michael D. Bordo Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Charles W. Calomiris
Charles W. Calomiris Columbia University
Daniel L. Thornton
Daniel L. Thornton Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Lee J. Alston
Lee J. Alston Indiana University
James B. Bullard
James B. Bullard Purdue University West Lafayette
Subal C. Kumbhakar
Subal C. Kumbhakar Binghamton University
Massimo Guidolin
Massimo Guidolin Bocconi University
Christopher J. Neely
Christopher J. Neely Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Michael T. Owyang
Michael T. Owyang Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

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