Lubos Pastor

Company: University of Chicago

Area of Expertise: finance, economics

Website: https://www.chicagobooth.edu/faculty/directory/p/lubos-pastor

Email: lubos.pastor@chicagobooth.edu

Biography:

Lubos Pastor is Charles P. McQuaid Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. At Chicago Booth, he also serves as co-director of the Fama-Miller Center for Research in Finance, director of the Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) and a member of the CRSP Indexes Advisory Council. Outside Chicago Booth, he is a member of the Bank Board of the National Bank of Slovakia, research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy and Research. He has served as president of the Western Finance Association and director of the American Finance Association. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Financial Economics and a former associate dditor of the Journal of Finance and the Review of Financial Studies.

Pastor’s research focuses mostly on financial markets and asset management. He has written on a broad range of topics such as liquidity risk, political uncertainty, stock price bubbles, stock volatility, return predictability, technological revolutions, income inequality, populism, portfolio choice, performance evaluation, returns to scale in active management, indexing, learning and IPOs. He has been teaching at Chicago Booth since 1999 when he obtained a Ph.D. in finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.