Assistant Vice President and Senior Economist, Financial Industry Studies
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Jeffery W. Gunther is an assistant vice president and senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, where he conducts and directs analysis of financial institutions and the supervisory framework in which they operate. Gunther's work focuses on supervisory policy issues of particular concern to the Federal Reserve. He has authored numerous related articles for publication in both academic and Federal Reserve journals, and he is a primary architect of statistical models used at the Federal Reserve to identify emergent banking problems. Gunther received a Ph.D. in economics from Southern Methodist University in 1995.