Park, Andreas

Biography

Andreas Park is an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Toronto, where he has been a faculty member since 2003; his appointment is with the Department of Management at UTM, and he is cross-appointed at the Rotman School of Management and the Institute for Management and Innovation. His research covers empirical topics, such as the market impact of maker-taker pricing, dark orders, and high frequency trading, and theoretical topics, such as market design of trading with blockchain technology, herd behavior in financial markets and the impact of trading mechanisms. His work has been published at, e.g., Econometrica, the Journal of Finance, or the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. He has received and has been an affiliate on a number of research grants, including from the ESRC, SSHRC and the GRI. Andreas has served as Co-Director of the Master of Financial Economics program at University of Toronto, and he teaches courses on Market Microstructure, Trading, Investments, Asset Pricing, and Corporate Finance. Andreas currently works on a number of empirical research projects on Canadian equity markets, the results of which have been presented at major international academic conferences. He is a member of the Ontario Securities Commission's Market Structure Advisory Committee and of the TMX Market Impact Measurement Working Group. Andreas Park is an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Toronto, where he has been a faculty member since 2003; his appointment is with the Department of Management at UTM, and he is cross-appointed at the Rotman School of Management and the Institute for Management and Innovation. His research covers empirical topics, such as the market impact of maker-taker pricing, dark orders, and high frequency trading, and theoretical topics, such as market design of trading with blockchain technology, herd behavior in financial markets and the impact of trading mechanisms. His work has been published at, e.g., Econometrica, the Journal of Finance, or the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. He has received and has been an affiliate on a number of research grants, including from the ESRC, SSHRC and the GRI. Andreas has served as Co-Director of the Master of Financial Economics program at University of Toronto, and he teaches courses on Market Microstructure, Trading, Investments, Asset Pricing, and Corporate Finance. Andreas currently works on a number of empirical research projects on Canadian equity markets, the results of which have been presented at major international academic conferences. He is a member of the Ontario Securities Commission's Market Structure Advisory Committee and of the TMX Market Impact Measurement Working Group.

Research Interest

Trading mechanisms, Financial Markets, Aftermarket trading of IPOs