James A. Leach Chair in Banking and Monetary Economics

Established in 1994 by O. Jay Tomson and community bankers

Dr. Quaicoe has been a professor of Economics at the Business, Accounting, and Economics Department since 2018. His teaching focuses on the topics of macroeconomics, microeconomics, international economics, development economics, and econometrics. His research interests are in the areas of general macroeconomics, monetary economics, and development economics. Recent projects have examined taxation and fiscal policy in developing countries and a reexamination of the crowding-out effect.

Dr. Quaicoe is a member of the American Economic Association, Southern Economic Association, and the Missouri Valley Economic Association. He has presented his research at various conferences and has been involved with the Philosophical and Literary Society of Wartburg College.

Established in 1994 with gifts from O. Jay and Patricia Tomson and Iowa community bankers in honor of James A. Leach, an Iowa native and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives.