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George Malikov is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Ivey Business School, Western University. His research interests broadly lie in asset pricing with an emphasis on market microstructure, information economics, and asset management. He specifically explores the process of price formation in capital markets and seeks to understand the information acquisition and trading behavior of investors with differential objectives to access information. Malikov is particularly interested in the effects of technological innovations in the asset management sector and their implications for financial market quality and portfolio allocation. His projects theoretically document and provide empirical evidence on novel drivers of passive investing, highlighting the role of declining costs of fundamental information. Malikov's ongoing work includes studying the implications of quantitative mutual funds and exchange-traded products on market quality. Before pursuing his Ph.D., he spent six years as a fundamental equity investor at Citadel Millennium, focusing on the energy industry. In his free time, he enjoys watching and playing soccer, traveling, and spending time with family.
Streams include Archaeology and Bioarchaeology, and Sociocultural Anthropology.