Dr. Bernard Shull
Affiliated Academic
Education
PhD in economics, University of Wisconsin
MA in economics, University of Illinois
BA, Temple University
Experience
Dr. Shull is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics at Hunter College of the City University of New York. He has also taught in the Finance and Economics Departments at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Illinois. Dr. Shull specializes in the areas of financial institutions, banking regulation, and competition and central banking. He has consulted with government agencies, including the Federal Reserve Board on bank holding company matters; the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation on supervision and regulation; the US Department of Justice on bank mergers and acquisitions; and the Small Business Administration on small business lending by banking organizations. In recent years, he has been a Visiting Scholar at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
In addition, Dr. Shull has held various positions with the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, including Associate Adviser, Chief of the Banking Markets Section, and Research Director for the Federal Reserve's Reappraisal of the Discount Mechanism. He has also been a senior economist in the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Associate Editor of The National Banking Review, and Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. He has testified before the Senate and House Banking Committees and has been an expert witness in proceedings before the Federal Reserve Board and the Comptroller of the Currency, as well as in private suits brought under the banking and antitrust laws.
Dr. Shull is the author of a recent book, The Fourth Branch: The Federal Reserve’s Unlikely Rise to Power and Influence (2005), is co-author of Bank Mergers in a Deregulated Environment (2001), an earlier book on interest rate volatility, and has written a monograph on the separation of banking and commerce in Financial Markets, Institutions & Instruments. He has also recently prepared two Working Papers on the causes and consequences of “too-big-to fail” and elements of the Dodd-Frank legislation. He has published articles in The Journal of Banking and Finance, Economic Notes, The Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics, Contemporary Policy Issues, The Antitrust Bulletin, The Bankers Magazine, The Journal of Quantitative and Financial Analyses, The Banking Law Journal, Encyclopedia Americana, Encyclopedia of New York City, and various other government journals and periodicals published in the US and abroad.
