W. Scott Frame

W. Scott Frame is a vice president in the banking and finance group in the research department of the Dallas Fed. His major fields of study are financial institutions, credit markets, real estate and public policy.

Frame previously was a financial economist and senior adviser on the financial markets team at the Atlanta Fed. He also spent two years as the Belk Distinguished Professor of Finance at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (2012–14). Before joining the Atlanta Fed, Frame was a senior financial economist at the U.S. Treasury Department from 1996 to 2000.

Frame has published in many scholarly journals, and is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, the Journal of Financial Services Research and the Journal of Financial Research. He is also currently the executive director of the International Banking, Economics, and Finance Association (IBEFA) and on the board of directors of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association and the Financial Management Association. Frame is a past president of both IBEFA and the Southern Finance Association.

Frame received his doctorate in economics in 1996 and his master's degree in economics in 1993, both from the University of Georgia. He received his bachelor of science in economics in 1990 from Arizona State University.