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Lubos Pastor
Ľuboš Pástor
Born (1974-03-19) 19 March 1974 (age 50)
Košice, Czechoslovakia
CitizenshipSlovakia, U.S. Permanent Resident
Alma materWharton School
Wichita State University
Comenius University in Bratislava
Known forPastor-Stambaugh liquidity factors
AwardsSmith Breeden Prize
Fama-DFA Prize
Barclays Global Investors Prize
BlackRock Award
Goldman Sachs Asset Management Award
NASDAQ Award
Scientific career
FieldsFinancial economics
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago Booth School of Business

Lubos Pastor (born 19 March 1974) is a Slovakian-American financial economist, currently the Charles P. McQuaid Professor of Finance and Robert King Steel Faculty Fellow at Booth School of Business, University of Chicago.[1][2][3] He earned his Ph.D. in finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Academic work

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Pastor's research focuses on financial markets and asset management. His most cited paper, “Liquidity risk and expected stock returns” has been cited over 7,000 times according to Google Scholar.[4] The paper introduces the concept of a liquidity risk factor and constructs the Pastor-Stambaugh liquidity factors.[5][6][7] His other work addresses topics such as sustainable investing,[8] political uncertainty,[9] stock price bubbles, technological revolutions, the size of the active management industry, and portfolio choice.[10]

Pastor's research has been awarded numerous best paper prizes including two Smith Breeden Prizes (2003, 2012) and three Fama-DFA Prizes (2002, 2006, 2015).

Since 1 January 2021 he has been a director of the European Finance Association, in 2024 he served as its Vice President.[11] From 2016 to 2019 he was on the board of directors of the American Finance Association. He was on the board of directors of the Western Finance Association from 2010 to 2017 and served as its president from 2016 to 2017.

He is a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a research fellow with the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Pastor has served as an associate editor of the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies. [12]

In 2016, Pastor was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Economics in Bratislava.[13]

Non-academic work

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In 2015, Pastor was appointed by the Government of the Slovak Republic to the Bank Board of the National Bank of Slovakia.[14] In 2021, he was reappointed to serve on the Board for another term until 2027.[15] On 19 December 2023, Pastor resigned from the board due to increasing work commitments in the United States.[16]

From 2008 to 2012, he co-designed the investable CRSP Indexes in cooperation with the Center for Research in Security Prices and Vanguard.[17][18][19]

References

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  1. ^ "Faculty Directory: Lubos Pastor".
  2. ^ "Community Fellows". upenn.edu. Archived from the original on October 2, 2016. Retrieved February 12, 2017.
  3. ^ "Pástor, Lubos̆". worldcat.org. Retrieved February 12, 2017.
  4. ^ "Google Scholar Citations: Lubos Pastor".
  5. ^ "Fama-French Portfolios & Factors". Wharton School of Business. 2011-08-25.
  6. ^ "Liquidity Factor of Pastor and Stambaugh (JPE 2003) Updated Through Dec 2022". Chicago Booth.
  7. ^ "Data". Chicago Booth, Fama-Miller Center.
  8. ^ Pastor, Lubos; Stambaugh, Robert; Taylor, Lucian A. (2021). "Sustainable investing in equilibrium". Journal of Financial Economics. 142 (2): 550–571. doi:10.1016/j.jfineco.2020.12.011.
  9. ^ Pastor, Lubos; Veronesi, Pietro (2017-02-01). Political Cycles and Stock Returns (Report). Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. doi:10.3386/w23184.
  10. ^ Pastor, Lubos. "Research". Chicago Booth. Archived from the original on 2023-06-02. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
  11. ^ "EFA Executive Committee 2024 | EFA - European Finance Association". european-finance.org. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  12. ^ "Board Member Profile at the National Bank of Slovakia website". Retrieved May 19, 2022.
  13. ^ "Doctor honoris causa EU v Bratislave prof. Ľuboš Pástor, PhD".
  14. ^ Solčányiová, Martina (2015-02-11). "Ľuboš Pástor to be new member of NBS Bank Board". National Bank of Slovakia. Archived from the original on 2024-02-21.
  15. ^ "Professor Ľuboš Pástor reappointed as an NBS Bank Board member". National Bank of Slovakia. 12 March 2021. Archived from the original on 2023-10-04. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
  16. ^ Peter, Majer (20 December 2023). "Ukončenie pôsobenia Ľuboša Pástora v Bankovej rade NBS". Národná banka Slovenska (in Slovak).
  17. ^ "New Investable Indexes from The Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) selected by Vanguard for U.S. Stock Index Funds" (PDF). Chicago Booth, Center for Research in Security Prices. October 2, 2012. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2023-09-01.
  18. ^ "Vanguard to Change Target Benchmarks for 22 Index Funds" (PDF). Chicago Booth. October 2, 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-09-01 – via The Vanguard Group.
  19. ^ "CRSP Launches Investable Indexes". Chicago Booth Review. 2012-05-01. Archived from the original on 2023-12-04.


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