Rutgers University economist and banking expert Joe Hughes has been made a Fellow of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center. The Center sponsors research on financial institutions and their role in financial markets, hosts conferences, and publishes an influential working paper series. Professor Hughes is a well known expert on measuring scale economies and was recently a panelist at the Symposium on Ending Too Big to Fail at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve Banks of Cleveland, New York, and Philadelphia.