Haslam College of Business - James Lake

Biography

James Lake is an associate professor and Dr. Joe Johnson Faculty Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Haslam College of Business. He previously served as an assistant professor at Southern Methodist University, where he earned tenure in 2018 and spent two years as director of graduate studies in the economics department. His research focuses on how international trade policies, such as the trade war tariffs of the Trump administration and the steel tariffs imposed by President George W. Bush in 2002, create winners and losers between countries and among different groups within countries.