Professor Pastor’s research focuses mostly on financial markets and asset management, and he has written on a broad range of topics such as liquidity risk, political risk, sustainable investing, stock price bubbles, return predictability, portfolio choice, performance evaluation, returns to scale in asset management, indexing, learning, technological revolutions, income inequality, populism, quantitative easing, and IPOs. Beyond the university, Professor Pastor serves as a member of the Bank Board of the National Bank of Slovakia, director of the European Finance Association, research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy and Research. He has also served as president of the Western Finance Association, director of the American Finance Association, co-director of the Fama-Miller Center for Research in Finance and associate editor of the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies.