James Vickery
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Research Department
10 Independence Mall
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Tel: (+1) 215-574-6549
Fed website: https://www.philadelphiafed.org/our-people/james-vickery
James Vickery is a financial economist who studies financial intermediation, real estate finance, and household finance, with a focus on mortgage and MBS markets. His recent research includes studies of bank securities portfolios, mortgage credit supply, forbearance policies, MBS market fragmentation, and the effects of technology on mortgage lending.
James is a Senior Economic Advisor and Economist in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. He joined the Bank in 2019 from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In addition to research, James has contributed to a range of Federal Reserve policy initiatives, including serving as Deputy Chair of the Model Oversight Group that directs the Fed’s supervisory stress tests. He has also taught at Wharton, NYU Stern and Princeton.
James joined the Federal Reserve in 2004 after earning a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to graduate school he was a research analyst at the Reserve Bank of Australia.