Lecturer in Finance

Contact Details

• Tel: +44 (0) 116 252 5328
• Email: m.fethi@le.ac.uk
• Office: Room 327, Level 3, Ken Edwards Building
• Office Hours: TBC

Biography

Meryem Duygun Fethi BSc (Hons) MA PhD. Meryem completed her postgraduate degrees as an ODA and Commonwealth scholar at the University of Leicester. She has been researching and teaching at the School of Management since 1996. Meryem's major teaching and research fields are banking and finance, performance measurement and applied economics. She is currently supervising seven PhD students in these areas. Meryem is the founding president of the IFABS (International Finance and Banking Society), which was established in 2009.  She is also the founding Coordinator of the ULSM Efficiency and Productivity Research Unit, and UKEPAN (UK Efficiency and Productivity Analysis Network). Since 2004, she has also been coordinating the EURO Working Group on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis. Meryem serves as an editorial board member of a number of international journals and she is a scientific committee member at various conferences. She is currently guest co-editing three special issues in the following journals: Journal of Banking & Finance, Journal of Productivity Analysis, and International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance. Meryem is currently organising an international research symposium on banking and finance.

Research Interests

Meryem's major research fields are banking and finance, performance management and applied economics.

PhD Supervision

Hend Alregab (September 2011), Mokhamad Anwar (September 2010), Ting Ting Zhu (September 2010)
Hang Cheng (September 2010), Dogus Emin (September 2009), Adrian F. Rossignolo (January 2008)
and Saima Pathan (September 2007).

PhD students successfully completed their PhD students:

Ozlem Olgu (completed in 2006), Muhideen Adesokan (completed in 2007) and Mohamed Shaban (completed in 2008).

Teaching

MSc/MBA Performance Measurement: Quantitative Approaches 2008-date
Foundations of Financial Analysis (MSc Finance) 2005-date
Financial Modelling (MSc Finance 2005)
Corporate Finance (BA Management Studies Year Three, 2007)
Economics for Management and Decision Making (BA Management Studies Year One, 2005)
Strategic Management (Distance Learning MBA-Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, 2006)
Managing People & Organisations (Distance Learning MBA-Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, 2006)
Dissertation & Study Skills (Dubai & Malta, 2010)

Administrative Responsiblities

Co-ordinator of Efficiency and Productivity Research Unit

Selected Recent and Forthcoming Publications

Articles

Consolidation in the European Banking Industry: How effective is it?, 2011, Journal of Productivity Analysis, with Ana Lozano-Vivas, Subal Kumbhakar, and Mohamed Shaban. Doi 10.1007/s11123-011-0212-8.

Liberalisation, Privatisation and the Productivity of Egyptian banks: a non-parametric approach, 2011, Service Industries Journal 31 (7), 1143-1163, with Mohamed Shaban and Tom Weyman-Jones.

Assessing bank efficiency and performance with operational research and artificial intelligence techniques: A survey, 2010, European Journal of Operational Research 204 (2), 189-198, with Fotios Pasiouras.

Turkish Banking Re-capitalization and the Financial Crisis: an Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, Forthcoming in Emerging Markets, Finance and Trade in 2012 with Mohamed Shaban and Tom Weyman-Jones.

Twin deficits phenomenon in small islands: an empirical investigation by panel data analysis. 2009, Applied Economics Letters 16, 15, 1569-1573, with Salih Katircioglu and Sami Fethi.

Illegitimate Wage Practices in Southeast Europe: An Evaluation of "Envelope Wages", Forthcoming in Balkanistica in 2011, with Colin Williams and Abbi Kedir.

Editorial, Special issue: Efficiency and productivity Analysis: theoretical issues and practical concerns in the international perspective, 2008, International Journal of Business Performance Management, with Vania Sena.

Does Trade Policy Matter in an Isolated Economy: The Case of North Cyprus, 1978Q1-2002Q4, 2008, Economia Internazionale LXI, 4, 637-664, with Sami Fethi and Salih Katircioglu.

Productivity Growth and Structural Changes in Airlines: A distance function approach, 2008, International Journal of Business Performance Management 10, 4, 391-411, with Peter M. Jackson and Tom G. Weyman-Jones.

Estimating the Size of the Cypriot Underground Economy: A Comparison with European Experience, 2006, International Journal of Manpower 27, 6, with Sami Fethi and Salih Katircioglu.

Books

Financial Services: Efficiency and Risk of Management, Edited by Meryem Duygun Fethi,  Chrysovalantis Gaganis, Fotios Pasiouras and Constantin Zopounidis, forthcoming on 1 December, 2011, Nova Science Publishers.

Book Chapters

Fethi, M. D. and Weyman-Jones, T.G. (2006) "Stochastic DEA", in Avkiran, N., Productivity Analysis in the Service Sector with Data Envelopment Analysis, ISBN: 0958055017 (3rd edition).

Non-academic Publications

Whitepaper on the effects of social media on the UK workplace published in collaboration with MyJobGroup.co.uk in November, 2010, by Meryem Duygun Fethi, Peter M. Jackson and Abbi Kedir.

Recent Conference Organisations

• IFABS 3rd International Conference on Financial Intermediation, Competition and Risk, 30 June - 2 July 2011, Rome, Italy (with University of Rome III).
• IFABS 2nd International Conference on Global Trends in the Efficiency and Risk Managemet of Financial Services, 2-4 July 2010, Chania, Crete (with Technical University of Crete).
• IFABS International Conference on Global Trends in the Efficiency and Risk Management of Financial Services and the Financial Crisis, 15-16 November 2009, Leicester, UK.

Main Stream Organiser on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis

• The 25th EURO Conference on Operational Research, Lithuania, 8-11 July 2012.
• OR 53 Conference, East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham, 6-8 September 2011.
• Or 52 Conference, Royal Holloway, University of London, 7-9 September 2010.
• The 24th EURO Conference on Opertational Research , Lisbon, Portugal, 11-14 July 2010.
• The 23rd EURO European Conference on Operational Research, Bonn, 5-8 July 2009.

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