Prof John Wilson

Professor

Director of Research

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 462803

Email

jsw7@st-andrews.ac.uk

Biography

John is Director of the Centre for Responsible Banking & Finance based at the University of St Andrews. He is also a Member of Scientific Advisory Board of Chartered Association of Business Schools Academic Journal Guide. Previously, he was Treasurer and General Secretary of the British Accounting and Finance Association during the period 2009-2011, and the founding Chair of the British Accounting and Finance Association Financial Markets and Institutions Special Interest Group over the period 2007-2018. John serves as Associate Editor to the Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Journal of Financial Stability, British Accounting Review, European Journal of Finance and Finance Research Letters. He also serves on the editorial board of a number of journals including the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Journal of Financial Economic Policy and the Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance. He has guest edited 10 special issues for various journals including: Journal of Banking & Finance, Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organization, European Journal of Finance, Public Money & Management, British Accounting Review and the Journal of Corporate Finance (in progress).

In the period June 2011 to April 2012, John served as a full member of a Commission on Credit Unions established by the Irish Government. The Commission delivered interim and final reports to the Minister for Finance in September 2011 and April 2012 respectively. In 2018, John delivered evidence on the impact of Brexit on UK small and medium-sized enterprises to the House of Lords EU Internal Markets Committee.

Teaching

• MN4223 International Banking

Research areas

John's research focuses on banking (in Europe, Japan and the United States) and credit unions (in UK, Ireland and the United States). He has published over 70 journal articles in outlets including Journal of Money Credit & Banking; Journal of Corporate Finance; European Journal of Operational Research; Journal of the Royal Statistical Society; Economic Inquiry; Journal of Banking & Finance; Journal of Financial Services Research; Financial Markets, Institutions and Instruments; Cambridge Journal of Economics; International Journal of Industrial Organization; Regional Studies and Social Science & Medicine.

?John is the author/co-author of numerous books. These include: European Banking: Efficiency, Technology and Growth; Industrial Organisation: An Analysis of Competitive Markets; The Economics of Business Strategy; Industrial Organization: Competition Strategy and Policy, now in its fifth edition; and Banking: A Very Short Introduction. John edited a five volume Routledge Major Works in Banking. He co-edited the first, second and third editions of the Oxford Handbook of Banking (with Allen Berger and Phil Molyneux). John also coedited the Handbook of Post Crisis Financial Modelling (with Emmanuel Haven, Phil Molyneux, Sergei Fedotov and Meryem Duygun).

PhD supervision

• Hiep Ngoc Luu
• Lechedzani Kgari
• Hang Yuan
• Lemonia Marina Rempoutsika

Selected publications

• Deposit insurance and bank dividend policy

  Che Johari, E. E., Chronopoulos, D., Scholtens, B., Sobiech, A. L. & Wilson, J. O. S., 29 Apr 2020, In : Journal of Financial Stability. In Press

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Banks and the real economy: an assessment of the research

  Berger, A., Molyneux, P. & Wilson, J. O. S., 6 Nov 2019, In : Journal of Corporate Finance. In press

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Review article

• Cooperative financial institutions: a review of the literature

  McKillop, D., French, D., Quinn, B., Sobiech, A. L. & Wilson, J. O. S., 18 May 2020, In : International Review of Financial Analysis. 71, 101520.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Review article

• Oxford Handbook of Banking, 3rd edition

  Wilson, J. O. S., Berger, A. & Molyneux, P., 31 Oct 2019, third ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1312 p.

  Research output: Book/Report ? Book

• The (potential) impact of Brexit on UK SMEs: regional evidence and public policy implications

  Brown, R. C., Linares Zegarra, J. M. & Wilson, J. O. S., May 2019, In : Regional Studies. 53, 5, p. 761-770

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Sticking it on plastic: credit card finance and small and medium-sized enterprises in the UK

  Brown, R., Liñares-Zegarra, J. & Wilson, J. O. S., 4 May 2019, In : Regional Studies. 53, 5, p. 630-643

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• The size and growth of microfinance institutions

  Linares-Zegarra, J. & Wilson, J. O. S., Feb 2018, In : British Accounting Review. 50, 2, p. 199-213 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Integration, productivity and technological spillovers: evidence for eurozone banking industries

  Casu, B., Ferrari, A., Girardone, C. & Wilson, J. O. S., 16 Dec 2016, In : European Journal of Operational Research. 255, 3, p. 971-983 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Regulatory change and capital adjustment of US credit unions

  Goddard, J., McKillop, D. & Wilson, J. O. S., Aug 2016, In : Journal of Financial Services Research. 50, 1, p. 29-55

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Banking: A very short Introduction

  Wilson, J. O. S. & Goddard, J., 2016, Oxford University Press.

  Research output: Book/Report ? Book

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