Rate My Professor Robert Durand

Professor Robert Durand serves as Professor of Finance in the School of Accounting, Economics and Finance within Curtin Business School at Curtin University, where he was appointed in 2011. He earned a BA (Hons) from the University of Sydney, an MBA from the University of Edinburgh, and a PhD from Murdoch University. Durand's research centers on behavioral finance and empirical investigations of asset pricing models, exploring topics such as investor personality traits, overconfidence, financial distress, ESG factors, and their impacts on stock returns and corporate decisions.

His influential publications include 'An intimate portrait of the individual investor' (The Journal of Behavioral Finance, 2008), 'Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Profiles, Stock Returns, and Financial Policy: Australian Evidence' (International Review of Finance, 2017), 'Financial distress: Lifecycle and corporate restructuring' (Journal of Corporate Finance, 2015), 'The value relevance and reliability of reported goodwill and identifiable intangible assets' (The British Accounting Review, 2009), and 'Overconfidence, overreaction and personality' (Review of Behavioral Finance, 2013). Additional key works encompass 'Fear and the Fama-French Factors' (Financial Management, 2011), 'Saints versus Sinners. Does Morality Matter?' (Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 2013), and 'The Price of Sin in the Pacific-Basin' (Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2012). Durand contributes to the field as an editorial board member for Global Finance Journal and Review of Behavioral Finance. He has held academic governance roles, including election to Curtin University's Academic Board as the professor representative for Curtin Business School from 2015 to 2017.