Andrey Pankratov is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Laval University (Faculty of Business Administration). Andrey obtained his PhD degree at the Swiss Finance Institute and the University of Lugano. In 2008, Andrey received his Master’s degree in Mathematics from the Lomonosov MSU.

Andrey’s expertise lies in the area of market microstructure (the organization of financial markets), with a focus on the role of asymmetric and/or incomplete information as well as other market frictions. His research interests also include corporate finance, fixed income, banking, risk management, operations research, and decision theory.

Andrey has teaching experience in Financial Engineering, Fixed Income, Corporate Finance—in English and French—and “Financial Markets and Incomplete Information”—in French.

Andrey has seven years of experience in the financial industry. He has worked for insurance companies as an underwriter, for large commercial banks as a model validation analyst and an asset-liability analyst, and for an asset management company as a risk manager.