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Virginia France is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois, a position she has held since 1988. She has held previous roles including Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago (1993–1994), Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago (1986–1988), and Lecturer/Instructor roles at the University of Chicago and UIC. She earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago (1986) and a B.A. in Economics from Swarthmore College (1977).
Her research focuses on financial regulation, futures markets, and the industrial organization of derivatives markets. Key areas include collateral decisions in clearinghouses, catastrophe risk pricing, and regulatory frameworks for financial institutions. Teaching interests include portfolio management and derivatives.
Recent work examines legal constraints on central bank liquidity support for central counterparties (2016), while earlier studies explored catastrophe futures as insurance hedges (1992–1997), speculative behavior in commodity markets (2002), and collateral management practices (1995–1998).
No scientific awards or grants are explicitly listed. She has advised no named students, and no lab affiliations are mentioned. Her work spans theoretical and applied research on financial market structures and regulatory mechanisms.
