Rate My Professor Minh Do

Minh Viet Do is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Banking and Finance at Monash Business School, Monash University, a position he has held since joining the institution in 2008. He completed his PhD, with research focused on alternative investment funds, hedge funds, and asset pricing, prior to which he earned a Bachelor of Business with Honours from Monash University.

Do's academic interests and research specializations span bank lending, syndicated loans, loan contract design, asymmetric information, asset pricing, alternative investment funds, and hedge funds. He has made substantial contributions to the finance literature through publications in high-impact journals. Select key works include 'Risk management and private debt contracts: the role of weather derivatives' (Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, 2024), 'Equity analysts' recommendation revisions and corporate bond price reactions' (International Review of Finance, 2022), 'Options listings and loan contract terms: information versus risk-shifting' (Journal of Financial Markets, 2022), 'The effect of lenders’ dual holding on loan contract design: evidence from performance pricing provisions' (Journal of Banking and Finance, 2022), and 'Is drought risk priced in private debt contracts?' (International Review of Finance, 2021). His research also features in the Journal of Multinational Financial Management, Applied Financial Economics, Journal of International Finance and Economics, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, and Accounting and Finance. Do has obtained research grants such as the Faculty Research Grant and AFAANZ research grant, including funding for projects on hedging in loan contracts using weather derivatives and bank lending relationships. He has co-supervised Honours students and a PhD student, with work aligning to UN Sustainable Development Goal 13 (Climate Action), particularly regarding Australian syndicated loans and hedging effects on contract design. Additionally, he teaches core finance units including financial institutions and markets, commercial banking and finance, and foundations of finance.