Joseph R. Mason

Senior Fellow, Wharton School

Dr. Joseph R. Mason is the Hermann Moyse Jr./Louisiana Bankers Association Endowed Chair of Banking at the Ourso School of Business at Louisiana State University, and a Senior Fellow at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Mason’s consulting practice provides firms with advice on financial, political, and legal risks in banking and finance. In litigation, he regularly serves as testifying or non-testifying expert on matters related to a wide variety of financial market-related claims. Dr. Mason has consulted for and advised investment firms, corporations, and research institutions, including The Conference Board, Inc., Coventry First, Deloitte, Fannie Mae, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, The Group of Thirty, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, and The World Bank Group. <br /> <br /> Dr. Mason’s academic research focuses primarily on investigating liquidity in thinly-traded assets and illiquid market conditions. He is also an expert on energy taxes and infrastructure and has researched several ways in which American energy policy can be refined to combat the rising cost of oil. His research and economic commentary has received hundreds of national and international press citations in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Times, The Economist, Financial Times, Barron’s, Business Week, Financial Times-Germany, Roll Call, Forbes, Fortune, Portfolio Magazine, Bloomberg Magazine, American Banker, and on press syndicates such as Associated Press, Reuters, Bloomberg, and MarketWatch-Dow Jones Newswire.