Michael-Paul “Jack Kelly” James

Education

• 2018: Master of Urban Design (MUD), UNC Charlotte
• 2018: Master of Architecture I (MArch I), UNC Charlotte
• 2019: Master of Science in Real Estate (MSRE), UNC Charlotte
• 2000: Bachelor of Arts (BAMC), Music Composition, Georgia Southern University
• 2021: Public Policy Research and Analysis (CERT), UNC Charlotte
• 2020: Master of Business Administration (MBA), UNC Charlotte
• 2025 (expected) Ph.D. Business Administration in Finance, UNC Charlotte

Research interests

Corporate Finance & Real Estate

Licenses & Certifications

USSF NCSRA 2023 certified referee

Awards & Honors

• Graduate School Teaching Fellowship (GSTF), 2022-2023
• Graduate Scholarship (Friends of UNC Charlotte), 2022-2023
• Joanna R. Baker Memorial Graduate Fellowship, 2019-2020
• Master of Real Estate Grant Recipient, 2017-2018
• International Real Estate Grant Recipient, 2017
• School of Architecture Traveling Scholarship, 2017

Selected Presentations

https://www.slideshare.net/JackKelly25/presentations

Working Papers

• Nilsson, Isabelle, Michael-Paul James, Elizabeth C. Delmelle. “When the Train Never Comes: Property Value Impacts From the Announcement and Cancellation of a Light Rail Project.”
• Wang, Roman, Yongqiang Chu, Michael-Paul James. “Political Bias in Economic Forecasts”
• Wang, Roman, Yongqiang Chu, Michael-Paul James. “Political Bias in Green Innovation”
• James, Michael-Paul. “The Impacts of Place-Based Policy on Investor Behavior: Study of Opportunity Zones”