Always positive, enthusiastic, and supportive.
Inspires confidence and independent thinking.
Passionate about student development.
A true inspiration to all who learn.
A role model for academic excellence.
Özlem Dursun-de Neef is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Banking and Finance at Monash Business School, Monash University, a position she assumed in 2023. Prior to this, she served as Junior Professor of Sustainable Banking at Goethe University Frankfurt. She holds a PhD in Finance from the Vienna Graduate School of Finance.
Dursun-de Neef's research specializes in financial intermediation, with a focus on bank lending, the real effects of financial intermediation, house prices, financial stability, banking regulation, and banks' role in sustainable financing. She has published in leading journals such as Review of Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Journal of Empirical Finance. Key publications include "Foreign bank lending during COVID-19" (2025, Journal of Banking and Finance, with Y. E. Akgündüz, S. M. Cılasun, Y. S. Hacıhasanoğlu, and I. Yarba); "Monetary policy, held-to-maturity securities, and uninsured deposit withdrawals" (2025, European Accounting Review, with S. Ongena and A. Schandlbauer); "Bank specialization, mortgage lending and house prices" (2023, Journal of Banking and Finance); "Cost of credit, mortgage demand and house prices" (2023, Journal of Banking and Finance, with Y. E. Akgündüz, Y. S. Hacihasanoğlu, and F. Yılmaz); "Countercyclical capital buffers and credit supply: evidence from the COVID-19 crisis" (2023, Journal of Banking and Finance, with A. Schandlbauer and C. Wittig); and "COVID-19 and lending responses of European banks" (2021, Journal of Banking and Finance, with A. Schandlbauer). At Monash, she teaches Financial Intermediation (BFC3170) and co-organizes events like the Monash Winter Finance Conference.
