Dr Jill Johnes
BA, PhD Lancaster
Senior Lecturer
Department
Economics
Professional Role
Director MSc Quantitative Finance
External Roles
AIM Associate
Current Teaching
Undergraduate: Applied Business Economics (2nd year), Mathematical Economics (3rd year), Postgraduate: Frontier Estimation Methods.
Research Interests
Measuring efficiency, especially in the contexts of schools, universities and financial institutions.
Current Research
The parametrics and non-parametric estmation of distance functions in English higher education
Profile
Jill Johnes has been in the Department of Economics of Lancaster University Management School since 1988, having previously worked at British Aerospace, Warton Division. Jill followed the publication of her book on Performance Indicators in 1990 with further research into the construction of indicators of university performance. In 1991 she was one of the first to receive the Sir Alastair Pilkington University of Lancaster Teaching Award. From 1994-2001 she took a break from research following the birth of her third child, and continued to work on a part-time teaching only basis. In 2001, Jill resumed her research interests in assessing the efficiency of organisations, using frontier techniques such as data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). She has applied these techniques to schools in Kuwait, further education establishments in England and universities in England. More recently she has developed an interest in the efficiency of financial institutions. In particular, she has been measuring the efficiency of Islamic banks compared to conventional banks in the Gulf region, and investigating the efficiency of banks in emerging EU economies. She is currently estimating the efficiency of English universities using a parametric multiple-output multiple-input distance function. She was recently (2011) awarded a National Teaching Fellowship for her excellence in teaching.
Journal article (34)
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Publications
- Bradley S, Johnes Jill and Little A, 2010, 'The measurement and determinants of efficiency and productivity in the further education sector in England', Bulletin of Economic Research, vol 62, no. 1, pp. 1-30.
View details - Johnes Jill, Johnes Geraint and Thanassoulis E, 2008, 'An analysis of costs in institutions of higher education in England', Studies in Higher Education, vol 33, no. 5, pp. 527-549.
View details - Johnes Jill, 2008, 'Efficiency and productivity change in the English higher education sector from 1996/97 to 2002/03', Manchester School, vol 76, no. 6, pp. 653-674.
View details - Johnes Jill and Yu L, 2008, 'Measuring the performance of Chinese higher education institutions using data envelopment analysis', China Economic Review, vol 19, no. 4, pp. 679-696.
View details - Johnes Jill, 2006, 'Data envelopment analysis and its application to the measurement of efficiency in higher education', Economics of Education Review, vol 25, no. 3, pp. 273-288.
View details - Johnes Jill, 2006, 'Measuring teaching efficiency in higher education: an application of data envelopment analysis to Economics graduates from UK universities', European Journal of Operational Research, vol 174, no. 1, pp. 443-456.
View details - Johnes Jill, 2006, 'Measuring the efficiency of universities: a comparison of multilevel modelling and data envelopment analysis', Bulletin of Economic Research, vol 58, no. 2, pp. 75-104.
View details - Johnes Jill and Wei Y, 2005, 'Internet tools in the teaching of quantitative economics: why gaps between potential and reality?', Journal of Further and Higher Education, vol 29, no. 2, pp. 125-141.
View details - Johnes Jill, 2004, 'Efficiency measurement', in International Handbook on the Economics of Education, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, ISBN: 184376119X
View details - Johnes Jill, 1997, 'Inter-university variations in undergraduate non-completion rates: a statistical analysis by subject of study', Journal of Applied Statistics, vol 24, no. 3, pp. 343-361.
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