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  • Leadership team

      Susan Thorp
      Professor
      Head of Department

      E: Susan.Thorp@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 4193
      Caulfield

      • Household Finance
      • Pensions and Superannuation
      • Financial Decision Making
      • Financial Econometrics

      Huu Duong
      Professor
      Director of Research

      E: Huu.Duong@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 2032
      Clayton

      • Market microstructure (market quality, market design)
      • Empirical corporate finance (seasoned equity offerings, debt markets)
      • Derivatives markets (trading in futures and options market)

      John Watson
      Associate Professor
      Deputy Head of Department,
      Director of Education

      E: JR.Watson@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 2171
      Caulfield

      • Funds management
      • Superannuation and pension finance
      • Operations research
      • Behavioural and household finance
  • Academic staff

      Christine Brown
      Emeritus Professor

      E: Christine.Brown@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9905 2186
      Clayton

      • Capital management
      • Share repurchases
      • Buybacks
      • Infrastructure financing
      • Imputation tax
      • Institutional ownership

      Stephen Brown
      Emeritus Professor

      E: Stephen.Brown@monash.edu

      Caulfield

      • Empirical Finance
      • Asset Pricing Theory
      • Performance Measurement
      • Hedge Funds

      Michael Skully
      Emeritus Professor

      E: Michael.Skully@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 2407
      Caulfield

      • Banks and financial institutions
      • Superannuation
      • Islamic finance
      • Financial development
      • Corporate governance

      Abe de Jong
      Professor

      E: Abe.deJong@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 2049
      Caulfield

      • Corporate finance
      • Financial history

      Neal Galpin
      Professor
      PhD Milestone Coordinator, Banking and Finance

      E: Neal.Galpin@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 2386
      Caulfield

      • Corporate finance
      • Industrial organization
      • Fintech
      • Blockchain

      Yulia Merkoulova
      Professor

      E: Yulia.Merkoulova@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 4080
      Caulfield

      • Executive compensation
      • Mergers and acquisitions
      • Bankruptcy prediction
      • Household finance

      Lyndon Moore
      Professor

      E: Lyndon.Moore@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 2110
      Caulfield

      • Financial history
      • Corporate finance
      • Banking

      Chris Veld
      Professor
      PhD Director, Banking and Finance

      E: Chris.Veld@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 4142
      Caulfield

      • Corporate finance
      • Behavioural finance

      Ying Xia
      Professor
      Course Director, Master of Commerce, Honours Coordinator, Banking and Finance

      E: Ying.Xia@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 1257
      Caulfield

      • Empirical corporate finance
      • Corporate governance
      • Stock market liquidity
      • Corporate culture
      • Institutional investors
      • Default risk

      John Chu
      Associate Professor

      E: john.chu@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 4546
      Clayton

      • Large financial institutions
      • Corporate liquidity management
      • Household finance

      Silvio Contessi
      Associate Professor

      E: Silvio.Contessi@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 4946
      Caulfield

      • Banking
      • Macro-finance
      • International finance

      Ying Dou
      Associate Professor
      Course Director, Master of Commerce
      Honours Coordinator, Banking and Finance

      E: Ying.Dou@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9902 0799
      Caulfield

      • Corporate finance
      • Corporate governance
      • Boards of directors
      • Managerial incentives
      • Mergers and acquisitions

      Philip Gharghori
      Associate Professor
      Course Coordinator, Bachelor of Commerce

      E: Philip.Gharghori@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9905 9247
      Caulfield

      • Asset pricing
      • Default risk analysis
      • Funds management
      • Informed trading around events
      • Socially responsible investments

      Thanh Huynh
      Associate Professor
      Director of Impact

      E: Thanh.Huynh@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 1474
      Caulfield

      • Asset pricing
      • Disaster risk
      • Institutional investors
      • The role of media in finance
      • Earnings management

      Paul Lajbcygier
      Associate Professor

      E: Paul.Lajbcygier@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9905 9694
      Clayton

      • High-frequency trading
      • Market impact
      • Hedge funds
      • Alternative indexation

      Hassan Naqvi
      Associate Professor
      Course Director, Master of Banking and Finance, International Study Program Coordinator

      E: Hassan.Naqvi@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9905 8736
      Clayton

      • Corporate finance
      • Financial crises
      • Financial intermediation
      • International finance
      • Macro finance

      Abu Zafar Shahriar
      Associate Professor

      E: Shahriar.AbuZafar@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 2652
      Clayton

      • Microfinance
      • Entrepreneurship
      • Crowdfunding

      Barry Williams
      Associate Professor

      E: Barry.Williams@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 1786
      Caulfield

      • Multinational banking
      • Banking performance, regulation, revenue and governance

      Jin Yu
      Associate Professor
      PhD Milestone Coordinator, Banking and Finance

      E: Jin.Yu@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 4590
      Caulfield

      • Capital structure
      • Ownership structure
      • Managerial compensation
      • International corporate finance (law and finance)
      • Dynamic models in corporate finance

      Zhe An
      Senior Lecturer

      E: Zhe.An@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 4878
      Caulfield

      • International corporate finance
      • National culture
      • Capital structure
      • Stock price crash risk
      • Mergers and acquisitions

      Hue Hwa Au Yong
      Senior Lecturer
      Deputy Director of Education

      E: HueHwa.AuYong@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 2024
      Caulfield

      • Corporate finance
      • Capital management
      • Foreign exchange exposure
      • Derivatives and hedging
      • Asian and emerging markets
      • Financial crisis

      Zhenyang (Leo) Bao
      Senior Lecturer

      E: leo.bao@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 1392
      Caulfield

      • Behavioural and Experimental Finance

      Hoa Briscoe-Tran
      Senior Lecturer

      E: Hoa.Briscoe-Tran@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 1086
      Caulfield

      • Corporate Finance
      • Corporate Governance
      • Sustainable Finance

      Kym Brown
      Senior Lecturer

      E: Kym.Brown@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 1053
      Caulfield

      • Islamic finance
      • Inequality
      • Bank efficiency
      • Banking
      • Financial development

      Binh Do
      Senior Lecturer
      Course Director, Master of Advanced Finance

      E: Binh.Do@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 1399
      Caulfield

      • Short selling
      • Statistical arbitrage
      • Derivatives
      • Media and asset pricing
      • Empirical derivatives

      Minh Viet Do
      Senior Lecturer

      E: Minh.Do@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 4584
      Clayton

      • Bank lending
      • Syndicated loans
      • Loan contract design
      • Asymmetric information
      • Asset pricing
      • Financial intermediation with a focus on bank lending
      • The real effects of financial intermediation
      • House prices

      Jean-Pierre Fenech
      Senior Lecturer

      E: JeanPierre.Fenech@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 2140
      Caulfield

      • Archimedean Copulas
      • Credit Risk
      • Default Correlation
      • Credit Growth
      • Business Cycles
      • Markov Chains

      Toshinori Fukui
      Senior Lecturer

      E: Toshinori.Fukui@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 1055
      Caulfield

      • Capital Structure
      • Operating Leverage
      • Information Economics
      • Corporate Finance
      • Investment

      Li Ge
      Senior Lecturer

      E: Li.Ge@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 2123
      Clayton

      • Empirical asset pricing
      • Options
      • Informed trading
      • Corporate events
      • Corporate finance
      • Behavioural finance

      Abey Gunasekarage
      Senior Lecturer

      E: Abeyratna.Gunasekarage@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9904 7249
      Clayton

      • Mergers and acquisitions
      • CEO dominance and financial decisions
      • Bank performance and risk
      • Governance and carbon emissions management

      Idan Hodor
      Senior Lecturer

      E: Idan.Hodor@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 4581
      Caulfield

      • Asset Pricing with Frictions
      • Financial Institutions
      • Contract Theory
      • Entrepreneurship

      Wayne Huf
      Senior Lecturer (Practice)
      STARLab Director

      E: Wayne.Huf@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 4951
      Caulfield

      • Finance
      • Managed Funds
      • Superannuation
      • Efficiency
      • Data Envelopment Analysis
      • Operations Research

      Emdad Islam
      Senior Lecturer

      E: Emdad.Islam@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9905 1446
      Clayton

      • Corporate finance
      • Technological innovation
      • Law and finance
      • Executive compensation
      • Climate finance
      • Family firms
      • Market for corporate control

      Minsu Ko
      Senior Lecturer

      E: minsu.ko@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 4885
      Caulfield

      • Corporate finance
      • Corporate payouts
      • Household finance
      • Behavioural finance
      • Ageing of economic agents

      Hannah Nguyen
      Senior Lecturer

      E: Hannah.Nguyen@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 1107
      Caulfield

      • Empirical asset pricing
      • Environmental finance
      • Risk management
      • Financial institutions

      Lubna Rahman
      Senior Lecturer

      E: Lubna.Rahman@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 1410
      Clayton

      • Corporate finance
      • Agency conflicts
      • Labour and finance
      • Corporate social responsibility

      Joshua Shemesh
      Senior Lecturer
      Course Coordinator, Bachelor of Business

      E: Joshua.Shemesh@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 4920
      Caulfield

      • Behavioural finance
      • Empirical corporate finance
      • Analysts

      Yushui Shi
      Senior Lecturer

      E: Yushui.Shi@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 1442
      Caulfield

      • Empirical asset pricing
      • Household finance
      • Social network
      • Machine learning

      Davide Sinno
      Senior Lecturer

      E: davide.sinno@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 2871
      Caulfield

      • Empirical corporate finance
      • Institutional investors
      • Financial intermediation

      Tram Vu
      Senior Lecturer

      E: Tram.Vu@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 4544
      Caulfield

      • Debt contracting
      • Loan syndications
      • Financial intermediation
      • Climate finance
      • Corporate governance

      Yongxin Xu
      Senior Lecturer

      E: Yongxin.xu@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 4185
      Caulfield

      • Corporate finance
      • Corporate governance
      • Behavioural finance
      • Financial market regulation

      Wayne Xinwei Wan
      Senior Lecturer

      E: Wayne.Wan@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9905 2484
      Clayton

      • Real Estate Finance
      • Behavioural Finance
      • Household Finance
      • Urban Economics
      • Machine Learning

      Adina Yelekenova
      Senior Lecturer

      E: Adina.Yelekenova@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9905 9313
      Caulfield

      • Empirical Asset Pricing
      • Institutional Investors
      • Hedge Funds
      • Exchange Traded Funds
      • Sustainable Finance

      Eden Zhang
      Senior Lecturer

      E: Eden.Zhang@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 1259
      Caulfield

      • Corporate finance
      • Political economy of finance
      • Capital structure
      • Credit risk
      • Corporate governance
      • Mergers and acquisitions
      • Empirical banking

      Emma Zhang
      Senior Lecturer

      E: Emma.Zhang@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9902 0798
      Caulfield

      • Corporate governance
      • Board of directors
      • Corporate restructuring
      • Corporate finance

      Jodie Zhang
      Senior Lecturer

      E: jodie.zhang@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 4185
      Caulfield

      • Corporate Finance
      • Mergers and Acquisitions,
      • Financial Intermediation
      • International Finance

      Viet Nga Cao
      Lecturer

      E: Viet.Cao@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 2431
      Caulfield

      • Empirical asset pricing
      • Market anomalies
      • Investment-based asset pricing

      Jason Choo
      Lecturer

      E: Jason.Choo@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9905 8628
      Clayton

      • Clustering
      • Property Investment
      • Clustering

      Arseny Gorbenko
      Lecturer

      E: arseny.gorbenko@monash.edu
      P: +61 9903 2139
      Caulfield

      • Asset Pricing
      • Investment Management
      • Short Selling
      • Market Microstructure
      • International Finance

      Sergio de Holanda Rocha
      Lecturer

      E: Sergio.HR@monash.edu
      P: +61 9903 2226
      Caulfield

      • Corporate Finance
      • Firm Networks
      • Applied Finance Theory
      • Regulatory Diffusion

      Manapon Limkriangkrai
      Lecturer

      E: Manapon.Limkriangkrai@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9905 8436
      Clayton

      • Empirical asset pricing
      • Market efficiency
      • Market anomalies
      • Behavioural finance

      Zoltan Murgulov
      Lecturer

      E: Zoltan.Murgulov@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 4132
      Clayton

      • Equity financing
      • IPOs and SEOs
      • Emerging markets
      • Market regulation
      • Behavioural finance

      Raj (Bharat) Parajuli
      Lecturer

      E: Raj.parajuli@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 2403
      Caulfield

      • Empirical Asset Pricing
      • Government and Political Risks
      • Environmental, Social, Governance
      • Price Efficiency
      • Investment Based Asset Pricing

      Amale Scally
      Lecturer
      Master of Business Course Director

      E: Amale.Scally@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 1036
      Caulfield

      • Financial education and literacy
      • Gender and cultural diversity in Finance
      • Socially responsible and sustainable investments

      Long Pham
      Lecturer of Practice

      E: Long.Pham@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 4561
      Caulfield

      • Algorithmic trading
      • Open banking
      • Fintech
      • Asian and emerging markets
      • Derivatives

      Ali Sheikhbahaei
      Lecturer

      E: Ali.Sheikhbahaei@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9902 0609
      Clayton

      • Corporate Finance
      • Event Study
      • Seasoned Equity Offering
      • Informed Trading
      • Options

      Amanda Nguyen
      Scholarly Teaching Fellow

      E: Amanda.Nguyen@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 4160
      Caulfield

      • Corporate Finance

      Tony Nguyen
      Lecturer

      E: Tony.T.Nguyen@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 4896
      Caulfield

      • AI in Finance Education
      • Case Studies in Banking & Finance
      • Sustainable Finance

      Simon Yap
      Lecturer

      E: Simon.Yap@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 2056
      Caulfield

      • Survival analysis
      • Credit Risk Modeling
      • Credit ratings
      • Markov Chains
      • Non Parametric Methods
      • Bayesian Inference

      Nafisa Ovi
      Lecturer

      E: Nafisa.Ovi@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 4227
      Caulfield

      • Corporate finance
      • Banking
      • Technological innovation
      • Teaching and learning

      Xing Yan
      Lecturer

      E: Xing.Yan@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 4945
      Caulfield

      • Pedagogical Innovation
      • AI in Finance Education
      • Case Studies in Banking and Finance
      • Financial Intermediation
      • Market Discipline

      Sarah Allen
      Assistant Lecturer

      E: Sarah.Allen@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 4911
      Caulfield

      • Corporate Finance

      Ladshiya Atisoothanan
      Assistant Lecturer

      E: Ladshiya.Atisoothanan@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 4954
      Caulfield

      • Corporate Finance
      • International Finance
      • Asset Pricing

      Valli Batchelor
      Assistant Lecturer

      E: Valli.Batchelor@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 4952
      Caulfield

      • Bank Credit Analysis
      • Lending Management
      • Financial Intermediation
      • Case Studies in Finance
      • Ethics and Sustainability in Finance

      Michael Ciaravolo
      Assistant Lecturer

      E: Michael.Ciaravolo@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 4922
      Caulfield

      • Derivatives Analysis
      • Financial Engineering
      • Property Investment

      Anindita Dutta
      Assistant Lecturer

      E: Anindita.Dutta@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 4939
      Caulfield

      • Corporate Finance
      • Treasury Management
      • Investment and Portfolio Management

      Giang Hoang
      Assistant Lecturer

      E: Giang.Hoang@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 4963
      Caulfield

      • Corporate Governance
      • International Banking
      • Digital Assets and Real-World Assets

      Himali Palpita
      Assistant Lecturer

      E: Himali.Palpita@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 4923
      Caulfield

      • Investments and Portfolio Management
      • Fintech
      • Corporate Finance
      • Banking

      Hassan Shahzad
      Assistant Lecturer

      E: Hassan.Shahzad@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 2616
      Caulfield

      • Empirical Asset Pricing
      • ESG and Climate Finance
      • Event Studies
      • Political Economy

      Goran Torbakov
      Assistant Lecturer

      E: Goran.Torbakov@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 4955
      Caulfield

      • Corporate Finance
      • Investment and Portfolio Theory
      • Financial Markets and Institutions
      • Valuation and Investment Decisions
      • Risk and Return Analysis
      • Capital Markets and Funding Sources
      • Funding and Capital Structure Decisions
      • Entrepreneurship

      Alpana Trivedi
      Assistant Lecturer

      E: Alpana.Trivedi@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 4944
      Caulfield

      • Investments
      • Derivatives
      • Modelling in Finance

      Lin Wang
      Assistant Lecturer

      E: Lin.W.Wang@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 4953
      Caulfield

      • Funds Management
      • ESG

      Sean Zhu
      Assistant Lecturer

      E: Sean.Zhu@monash.edu
      P: +61 (3) 9903 4898
      Caulfield

      • Corporate Finance
      • Derivatives
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