Donal Mckillop

Biographic Data

ID3931084
NAMEDonal Mckillop
GIVEN NAMESDonal
FAMILY NAMEMckillop
SIGNATUREMCKILLOP D
AFFILIATIONSQueen's University Belfast
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS35
AUTHOR COUNT16
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1990
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX4

  • Community Banking Institutions: Commercial Banks, Savings Banks,Cooperative Banks, and Credit Unions

    Dasol Kim, Donal MckillopCHAPTEROxford Handbook of Banking2019

    Changes in the regulatory environment and technological advances have dramatically changed the competitive landscape for community banking institutions. While only accounting for a fraction of the overall size of the banking industry, community banks are predominant in numbers around the world for a broad range of depository institution types, including commercial banks, savings banks, cooperative banks, and credit unions. The steep decline in th…

  • The impact of debt and financial stress on health in Northern Irish households

    Open AccessDavid French, Donal MckillopARTICLEJournal of European Social Policy2017Cited by: 5References: 10

    We analyse data collected from a survey of Northern Irish low-income households experiencing varying degrees of financial hardship and examine how debt affects health and health-related behaviours. Our results indicate that the subjective experience of feeling financially stressed has a robust relationship with most aspects of health, including ability to self-care, problems performing usual activities, pain problems and psychological health. In …

  • How financial strain affects health: Evidence from the Dutch National Bank Household Survey

    Open AccessC Prentice, Donal Mckillop et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2017Cited by: 6References: 36

  • Web Adoption by Irish Credit Unions: Performance Implications

    Open AccessDonal Mckillop, Donal G McKillop et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Public and Cooperative…2015Cited by: 2References: 3

    The purpose of this paper is to examine website adoption and its resultant effects on credit union performance in Ireland over the period 2002 to 2010. While there has been a steady increase in web adoption over the period a sizeable proportion (53%) of credit unions did not have a web-based facility in 2010. To gauge web functionality the researchers accessed all websites in 2010/2011 and it transpired that most sites were classified as informat…

  • An Examination of Volunteer Motivation in Credit Unions: Informing Volunteer Resource Management

    Open AccessAllen M Ward, Donal Mckillop et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Public and Cooperative…2011Cited by: 1References: 6

    Volunteer recruitment and retention is a problem that most credit unions experience. Research suggests that knowledge of volunteer motivation can inform volunteer management strategies. This paper uses a survey approach to determine whether current volunteers in credit unions in Northern Ireland are more motivated by the actual act of volunteering, by the output from the volunteering activity (including altruism) or because the volunteering activ…

  • An Investigation into the Link between UK Credit Union Characteristics, Location and their Success

    Open AccessAllen M Ward, Ann‐Marie Ward et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Public and Cooperative…2005Cited by: 1References: 7

    The unique characteristics of credit unions reduces the information asymmetry that is prevalent in credit making decisions, enabling them to provide loans where other financial institutions cannot. This makes them a potential tool in the fight against financial exclusion. Yet, the UK credit union movement is not regarded as being successful, even though there is evidence of much financial exclusion. This study is cross sectional in form, and eval…

  • Irish Credit Unions: Exploring the Gender Mix

    Open AccessDonal Mckillop, D G McKillop et al.ARTICLEVoluntas Revista Internacional de…2003Cited by: 1References: 5

    Credit unions are voluntary cooperative financial institutions. At present there are 621 credit unions in Ireland serving two million members. Credit unions espouse the principle of gender inclusiveness, which is viewed as a fundamental cooperative concept. Based on a survey of 500 Irish credit unions, this study explores the role of women in credit unions. Judged against participation rates for women in the labor market and in specific organizat…

  • An Examination of Key Factors of Influence in the Development Process of Credit Union Industries

    Open AccessAlexander Sibbald, Charles Ferguson et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Public and Cooperative…2002Cited by: 5References: 1

    The aim of this paper is to analyse credit union industries within a development framework. Explicit consideration is given to credit union industries in four countries – Great Britain, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States. It is argued that in terms of a developmental typology the credit union industry in Great Britain is at a nascent stage of development, the industries in Ireland and New Zealand are at a transition stage while the US cre…

  • Best‐Practice Measures Of Resource Utilization For Hospitals: A Useful Complement In Performance Assessment

    Open AccessChristine Kerr, Christine A Kerr et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration1999

  • An Examination of Borrower Orientation and Scale Effects in UK Credit Unions

    Open AccessDonal Mckillop, Charles FergusonARTICLEAnnals of Public and Cooperative…1998Cited by: 1References: 4

    At present there are 597 credit unions operating within the UK with their growth, be it defined in term of new credit union establishment, asset growth or membership growth, placing them as the fasting growing financial grouping in the UK over this last decade. The fundamental motivation of a credit union is to provide financial services to its membership, in particular a depository for savings and an access to consumer credit. As a practical pro…

  • Optimal Credit Union Regulation

    Open AccessCharles Hickson, Donal MckillopARTICLEAnnals of Public and Cooperative…1996

  • An Analysis of the Financing Requirements of Small and Medium Sized Firms in Northern Ireland

    Donal Mckillop, Donal G McKillop et al.ARTICLERegional Studies1995References: 2

    McKILLOP D. G. and BARTON L. P. (1995) An analysis of the financing requirements of small and medium sized firms in Northern Ireland, Reg. Studies 29, 241–249. This paper investigates the financing relationship between small and medium sized firms and their loan institutions in Northern Ireland. The study, based on survey data, suggests that firms in Northern Ireland are reasonably satisfied with the financial and support services on offer from t…

  • Regional Financial Sectors in the British Isles

    Philip Molyneux, Donal Mckillop et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal1992Cited by: 10

    Journal Article Regional Financial Sectors in the British Isles Get access Regional Financial Sectors in the British Isles. By (Donal G.) Mckillop and (Robert W.) Hutchinson. (Aldershot and Brookfield, USA: Avebury, 1990. Pp. x + 178. £28.00 hardback. ISBN 1 85628 091 8.) Philip Molyneux Philip Molyneux University College of North Wales Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 102, Issu…

  • The Structure of Production, Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity in the Northern Ireland Agricultural Industry, 1955–86

    Open AccessDonal Mckillop, D G McKillop et al.ARTICLEScottish Journal of Political…1991References: 1

    This paper presents an empirical investigation of the structure of production in N. Ireland agricultural industry. A flexible (translog) cost function model is estimated to obtain measures of neutral and non-neutral technical change, substitution between factor inputs, and economies of scale. The cost function model is also utilized to decompose Tornqvist productivity gains into the contributions due to technical change, scale economies, and othe…

  • Financial Intermediaries and Financial Markets: A United Kingdom Regional Perspective

    Donal Mckillop, D G McKillop et al.ARTICLERegional Studies1991Cited by: 2References: 2

    McKILLOP D. G. and HUTCHINSON R. W. (1991) Financial intermediaries and financial markets: a United Kingdom regional perspective, Reg. Studies 25, 543–554. This paper attempts to identify, on a United Kingdom wide basis, the regional dispersion of the various groupings of financial markets and intermediaries. Although London dominates there is, however, evidence of significant pockets of autonomous financial intermediaries in certain of the regio…

  • Regional Financial Sector Models: An Application to the Northern Ireland Financial Sector

    R W Hutchinson, Robert Hutchinson et al.ARTICLERegional Studies1990Cited by: 1

    HUTCHINSON R. W. and McKILLOP D. G. (1990) Regional financial sector models: an application to the Northern Ireland financial sector, Reg. Studies 24, 421–431. This paper presents an analysis of recent theoretical developments in the treatment of regional financial markets. It starts from a position where regional financial markets are fully integrated in a national system, with regional financial institutions having a neutral effect on their reg…