Biography
Donal is Professor of Financial Services in the School of Management and Economics at Queens University. He teaches on the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Finance. His subject specialisms are Financial Theory and Derivative Markets and Instruments. Donal's research interests focus primarily in the areas of financial markets, financial institutions and financial instruments. Presently he is working on a selection of issues pertinent to futures markets these include the distributional properties of futures contracts; optimal hedge ratios for futures contracts; and the application of Value at
Risk models to (VaR) to futures contracts. Most of his research emphasis currently relates to credit unions. Donal is currently
involved in a number of research programmes. In conjunction with Wilson (St. Andrews) and Goddard (University of Swansea) he has recently completed work on the growth determinants of US credit unions while with Ferguson and Glass(University of Ulster) he has examined the radial and non-radial efficiency of UK credit unions. In collaboration with Ferguson and Hyndman (University of Ulster) and
Oyelere (Lincoln University, NewZealand) research programmes into the
accountability of Irish and UK credit unions are almost complete. Finally with McCarthy, Briscoe and Ward (University College Cork) an investigation into voluntarism and the role of women in Irish credit unions has recently commenced. To help progress the above research programme a number of research grants have been received over the last two years. The funding bodies are The Royal Irish Academy, The Association of Certified Chartered Accountants (England and Wales),
The Irish Accountancy Educational Trust, The Wincott Foundation, The Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Ireland and the European Commission under the auspices of its programme for Mutual and Co-operative Institutions.
Much of this research on credit unions can be found at the Credit Union Research
Forum. http://www.qub.ac.uk/mgt/curf/index.html
Publications
- Investing the Growth Performance of UK Credit Unions Using Radial and Non Radial Efficiency Measures 2001
- The Growth of U.S. Credit Unions 2001
- "Classifying Credit Union Development in terms of Mature, Transition and Nascent Industry Types"
- The Distributional Properties of Futures Prices 2000
- A Post Deregulation Analysis of the sources of Productivity Growth in UK Building Socities 2000
- Best Practice Measures of Resource Utilsation for Hospitals: A Useful Complement in Performance Assessment 1999
- (1999), "Conversion Ratios in UK Charities: An Investigation of Economies of Scale",
- (1999), "Efficiency in Northern Ireland Hospitals: A Non-parametric Analysis,
- Internediation and Value-Added Models for Estimating Cost Economies in Large Japanese Banks. 1998
- A Cost Indirect Evaluation of Productivity Change In UK Universities 1998
- The Strategic Development of Credit Unions 1997
- The Composite Cost Function and efficiency in Giant Japanese Banking 1996
- Efficiency in the Provision of University Teaching and Research: An Empirical Analysis of UK Universities. 1995