Yener Altunbas

Professor of Economics, Bangor Business School at Bangor University

Yener Altunbas is a Professor of Economics at the Bangor Business School. He worked first as an analyst with Ziraat and then as an economist in Etibank Banking Inc. in Turkey and as a Research Officer within the Institute of European Finance in the UK. Author of many articles on the structure and efficiency of banking markets, his main fields of research interest include: empirical banking, electoral studies and regional economics. He holds a B.Sc. (Economics) degree from the University of Hacettepe, Ankara and a PhD from the University of Wales, Bangor. His papers have appeared in international refereed journals, such as European Economic Review, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Public Choice and Economica.