Professor Jane Binner

The Department of Finance

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 6642
Email: j.m.binner@bham.ac.uk

Address: University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Jane Binner is currently Chair of Finance within the Department of Finance.

Her research centres on the application of advanced multivariate techniques to a range of data types, particularly the application of state-of-the-art techniques such as big data analytics and artificial intelligence methods. The work, which is multidisciplinary in nature involving both international and national collaborators, is concerned with commercial applications and more academic approaches. As such, it sits at the interface between economics, finance, industry and government.

She has published 56 journal papers with 10 are currently under review in top ranking journals in her field or are in the process of being written. She has also co-edited two books with MT Belongia and a book of seminal papers with the world’s leading monetary economist and Nobel Prize nominee (2001), Professor William Barnett. She also edited the ‘Corporate Health Check Report and Macroeconomic Commentary’ for Experian, a quarterly bulletin assessing UK business performance and economic prospects, from 1998 – 2004.

Biography

Jane Binner joined the Accounting and Finance Department at Birmingham Business School as Chair of Finance on 1 August 2013. Prior to this she worked as Head of the Accounting and Finance Division at Sheffield Management School and as Reader in Economics at Aston Business School for 7 years. Jane has a PhD, MSc, PGCE and BA Hons in Economics from the University of Leeds. She has worked with a number of stakeholder groups such as the Home Office, Experian, the Boots Group plc and Wright Patterson Airforce Base.

She brings expertise in analyzing the strategic investment decisions of large enterprises through econometric modelling. Jane has conducted research in econometrics for over twenty years and has extensive academic and commercial experience. Binner has attracted over £1,000,000 in external research funding, including awards from the EPSRC/ESRC, the Leverhulme Trust, the National Science Foundation, the Jan Wallander Foundation as well as industrial funding from Boots and Experian. Binner has achieved international recognition for her work on the econometric performance of monetary aggregates and is world leading in her field of financial innovation in the construction of money.

Jane has recently been recently been appointed as the impact lead in the Department of Finance at Birmingham Business School, as a visiting professor at the College of Business and Economics Research Centre at the University of Wisconsin, USA and as an INDI Fellow at the Institute for Nonlinear Dynamical Inference. She has four books and over seventy publications in the area of Computational Finance and Economics.

Research

Research Interests

Financial Resilience
Financial Services Indices
Financial Innovation
Big Data

Other activities

Fellow of the Institute for Nonlinear Dynamical Inference (INDI)

Served as Impact Lead for the Department of Finance in Birmingham Business School and as the Director of the Financial Resilience Cluster which spans multidisciplinary research interests in Finance across the University of Birmingham.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Binner, JM, Fleissig, AR & Swofford, JL 2025, 'Are green, climate-change and corporate bonds substitutes or complements? Evidence from a fourier specification', Economics Letters, vol. 251, 112316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2025.112316

Binner, J, Bissoondeeal, RK, Jones, BE & Valcarcel, V 2025, 'Identifying monetary policy shocks with Divisia money in the United Kingdom', Macroeconomic Dynamics, vol. 29, e86. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1365100524000749

Binner, J, Kelly, L & Tepper, J 2025, 'Professional Forecasters vs. Shallow Neural Network Ensembles: Assessing Inflation Prediction Accuracy', Journal of Risk and Financial Management, vol. 18, no. 4, 173. https://doi.org/10.3390/jrfm18040173

Fry, J & Binner, JM 2025, 'Quantifying speculative-bubble effects in major European soccer leagues', Economics Letters, vol. 248, 112208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2025.112208

Fry, J, Hastings, T & Binner, J 2024, 'An options-pricing approach to forecasting the French presidential election', Journal of the Operational Research Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2024.2334339

Kelly, L, Binner, J & Tepper, JA 2024, 'Do Monetary Aggregates Improve Inflation Forecasting in Switzerland?', Journal of Management Policy and Practice, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 124-133. https://doi.org/10.33423/jmpp.v25i1.6922

Bissoondeeal, RK, Binner, J & Milas, C 2023, 'Brexit and Coronavirus: Financial Perspectives and Future Prospects', European Journal of Finance, vol. 29, no. 16, pp. 1825-1834. https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847X.2023.2249961

Binner, J, Bissoondeeal, R & Karaglou, M 2023, 'The Impact of Uncertainty on Money Demand in the UK, US and Euro area', European Journal of Finance. https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847X.2023.2204194

Binner, J, Chaudhry, S & Swofford, JL 2023, 'UK or the Eurozone: Which Common Currency Area Can Work for Northern Ireland After Brexit?', European Journal of Finance. https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847X.2023.2216240

Molinas, L, Binner, J & Tong, M 2022, 'Do Divisia monetary aggregates help forecast exchange rates in a negative interest rate environment?', European Journal of Finance. https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847X.2022.2124120

Moreira Barreto de Oliveira, A, Binner, J, Mandal, A, Kelly, L & J. Power, G 2021, 'Using GAM functions and Markov-Switching models in an evaluation framework to assess countries’ performance in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic', BMC Public Health, vol. 21, no. 1, 2173 , pp. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11891-6

Chapter

Kelly, L, Tepper, J, Binner, J, Dixon, H & Jones, BE 2025, Box A: An Alternative UK Economic Forecast. in National Institute Economic Outlook Winter 2025. National Institute UK economic outlook. Series A, no. 17, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, pp. 11-16. <https://niesr.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/NIESR-UK-Economic-Outlook-Winter-2025.pdf>

Binner, J, Dixon, H, Tepper, J & Jones, B 2024, A Neural Network Approach to Forecasting Inflation. in National Institute UK Economic Outlook: Spring 2024: A Pre-Election Gloom. National Institute UK Economic Outlook, no. 14, vol. Series A, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, London, pp. 8-32. <https://www.niesr.ac.uk/publications/neural-network-approach-forecasting-inflation?type=uk-economic-outlook-box-analysis>

Other contribution

Dixon, H, Binner, J, Jones, B & Tepper, J 2025, Inflation to Remain Close to 4% Well Into 2026. National Institute of Economic and Social Research. <https://niesr.ac.uk/blog/inflation-remain-close-4-well-2026>

Paper

Binner, J, Molinas, L & Tong, M 2022, 'Do Divisia monetary aggregates help forecast exchange rates in a negative interest rate environment?'.

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