Rate My Professor Emdad Islam

Emdad Islam is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Banking and Finance within Monash Business School at Monash University. He earned his Ph.D. from the UNSW Business School and joined Monash University as a Lecturer in July 2019, later advancing to Senior Lecturer. His research centers on corporate governance, corporate finance, entrepreneurship, corporate innovation, managerial compensation contracts, corporate social responsibility, and family businesses. He also specializes in areas such as technological innovation, law and finance, executive compensation, climate finance, family firms, and the market for corporate control. Islam's scholarship has been presented at leading conferences, including the European Finance Association, American Economic Association, SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific, Finance Down Under, Northern Finance Association, China International Conference in Finance, American Law and Economics Association, Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Financial Management Association, and FMA Asia-Pacific.

Islam's publications appear in top-tier journals, including the Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, as well as The Harvard Business Review (Online). Notable works include 'Geographic diversification, climate risk, and bank lending: evidence from farm loans' (2025, Journal of Financial Intermediation, with M. Singh), 'Incentive contracting in the shadow of litigation risk: evidence from universal demand laws' (2025, Journal of Banking and Finance, with M. Humphery-Jenner, V. Nanda, L. Rahman), 'The impact of product market competition on workplace safety' (2025, Journal of Corporate Finance, with B. Loriot, L. Rahman), 'Shades of grey: risk-related agency conflicts and corporate innovation' (2023, Journal of Corporate Finance, with L. Rahman), and 'Eyes on the prize: do industry tournament incentives shape the structure of executive compensation?' (2022, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, with L. Rahman, R. Sen, J. Zein). His research has garnered recognition through Best Paper Awards at the 2018 Financial Markets and Corporate Governance Conference and the 2017 New Zealand Finance Meeting, semi-finalist honors at the FMA Annual Meeting (2017, 2019) and FMA Asia-Pacific (2018), and the 2020 UNSW Business School Dean's Research Award for HDR Collaboration. Contributions have featured in The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulations and BusinessThink, underscoring his impact in finance and governance.