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Professor John Turner

Queen's Business School
Professor John D. Turner

Professor John Turner

Queen's Business School

John is a financial economist and historian. His research addresses questions in the fields of economic history, business history and financial history. He is interested in financial bubbles, financial crises, banking, corporate governance and regional productivity. He teaches corporate finance at undergraduate level.

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  • j.turner@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0) 28 9097 4559
  • @profjohnturner

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in:

  • Financial
  • Economic
  • Business history

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Public outreach & key achievements

Editor Economic History Review

Alfred D. Chandler Visiting Scholar, Harvard Business School

Houblon-Norman Fellow at Bank of England

Media:

  • Response to Past Crises Shames Post-Lehman Dithering, The Conversation, 13/9/2013
  • Ulster Bank Denies Forcing Viable Businesses into Bankruptcy to Boost Profits, BBC News and BBC Spotlight, 14/5/2014
  • The History of Booms, Busts and Bubbles: The City of Glasgow Bank Crash of 1878, Share Radio, 6/12/2015
  • The Financial Crash, Ten Years On, Radio Ulster Inside Business, 18/9/2017

Research students

PhD area Speculation and bubbles in historical commodity markets
Name Laura Wurm 
Years of study 2019-2022
Country Austria
   
PhD area Politics and the evolution of the UK pensions and insurance sectors
Name David Bogle
Years of study 2018-2022
Country Northern Ireland
   
PhD area The evolution of preference shares
Name Mike Pogue (part-time) 
Years of study 2018-2023
Country Northern Ireland
   
PhD area Financing public infrastructure, 1800-2020
Name Ian Webster (part-time)
Years of study 2016-2021
Country England
   
PhD area Essays in financial history
Name Áine Gallagher (part-time) 
Years of study 2016-2021
Country Ireland 
   
PhD area Macroprudential regulation and systemic risk
Name Ashley Neill
Years of study 2016-2020
Country Ireland
   
PhD area Essays in Irish economic history
Name Áine Doran
Years of study 2018-2021
Country Ireland

 


Alumni: Where are they now

PhD area Law, Finance and Liability Regimes
Name Graeme Acheson 
Years of study 20002-2006
Country Northern Ireland
Current Position  Professor, University of Stirling  
   
PhD area The Equity Risk Premium and Anomalies in a Nascent Capital Market
Name Wenwen Zhan
Years of study 2006-2009
Country Professor, Xi’an Jiatong UniversityChina
Current Position   
   
PhD area Essays in finance over the long run
Name Meeghan Rogers
Years of study 2013-2016
Country USA
Current Position Professor, State University of New York

 


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