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Executive Education

Professional Experience

John is the Senior Tutor of the Oxford University Business Economics Programme. This is the University’s oldest executive education offering established in 1953. John delivers a number of full days and half day courses which form part of the Programme. John is the Director of the University’s Masters in Economics and Finance.

Courses Taught

Private Information: Market Effects and Responses

The impact of asymmetric information on markets: Lemons markets; screening in credit markets; credit rationing; signalling; pecking order theory of capital; contracting, moral hazard and worker incentives.

Corporate Governance, Executive Pay and Financial Policy

Capital Structure, Executive Remuneration and Firm Behaviour: Theories of optimal debt to equity ratios; leverage and firm behaviour; corporate governance in response to industrial structure; executive pay structure and level.

Innovations in Pricing

Optimal pricing for multiple goods: bundling and price linkages; sales force bargaining discretion; competitive impact of pricing; strategic response to negotiating customers.

Masters in Finance and Economics Elective

Financial Crises and Remedies

Causes of financial crises and wider systemic failure; what problem regulations are meant to solve and under what circumstances their use is desirable.