Credit unions: A theoretical and empirical overview

DG McKillop, JOS Wilson - Available at SSRN 1702782, 2010 - papers.ssrn.com
In 2009 there were over 49,330 credit unions across 98 countries with more than 184 million
members and approximately $1,354 billion in assets. There is a great diversity within the …

The growth of US credit unions

JA Goddard, DG McKillop, JOS Wilson - Journal of banking & finance, 2002 - Elsevier
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Efficiency in the provision of university teaching and research: An empirical analysis of UK universities

JC Glass, DG McKillop… - Journal of applied …, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
A flexible three‐output, two‐input cost function model is used to examine the cost efficiency
of UK universities as producers of teaching and research ‘outputs’. Unlike previous studies, a …

Implications of variant efficiency measures for policy evaluations in UK higher education

JC Glass, G McCallion, DG McKillop… - Socio-economic …, 2006 - Elsevier
Policy goals in UK higher education encourage the publicly funded universities to become
more-specialised and larger in size without compromising output quality. Efficiency gains are …

Investigating the cost performance of UK credit unions using radial and non-radial efficiency measures

DG McKillop, JC Glass, C Ferguson - Journal of Banking & finance, 2002 - Elsevier
This paper examines the relative efficiency of UK credit unions. Radial and non-radial
measures of input cost efficiency plus associated scale efficiency measures are computed for a …

The composite cost function and efficiency in giant Japanese banks

DG McKillop, JC Glass, Y Morikawa - Journal of Banking & Finance, 1996 - Elsevier
This study provides further empirical investigation, in the context of giant Japanese banks, of
the recent claim by Pulley and Braunstein (1992, A composite cost function for multiproduct …

Credit unions as cooperative institutions: Distinctiveness, performance and prospects

DG McKillop, JOS Wilson - Social and Environmental …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Credit unions are not for profit cooperative financial institutions which provide financial
services to a membership defined on the basis of a common bond. In 2013, there were 56,904 …

Irish credit unions: investigating performance determinants and the opportunity cost of regulatory compliance

JC Glass, DG McKillop, S Rasaratnam - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2010 - Elsevier
The study investigates how producer-specific environmental factors influence the performance
of Irish credit unions. The empirical analysis uses a two-stage approach. The first stage …

The development of credit unions and their role in tackling financial exclusion

DG McKillop, AM Ward, JOS Wilson - Public money and …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
<p>The government has been actively encouraging the development of credit unions to
help the financially excluded. However, rather than stimulating credit union development, …

Investigating productivity change and hospital size: a nonparametric frontier approach

…, R Jackson, CA Kerr, DG McKillop - Applied …, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
The study obtains measures of the productive efficiency of ‘larger’ and ‘smaller’ Northern
Ireland hospitals during the 1986–92 pre-Trust period. The measures provide insights into how …