Professor Alminas Žaldokas is currently Associate Professor of Finance at the HKUST. He received his Ph.D. in Finance from INSEAD (France) and has worked as the Visiting Assistant Professor at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas in Austin. 

His research focuses on the interaction between firm decisions in the financial and in the product markets. In particular, he studies corporate finance decisions that relate to the firm investment in innovation and the formation of collusive arrangements between firms. Professor Žaldokas’s research papers have been published in the leading academic journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, Journal of Accounting Research, RAND Journal of Economics, Journal of International Economics, and Journal of Financial Intermediation. 

Professor Žaldokas’s recent work has looked at how higher corporate taxes affect firm investment into innovative activities, and how firm financial disclosure such as conference calls with equity analysts might aid price-fixing in product markets. His work on international antitrust laws and M&A transactions was awarded Jerry S. Cohen Award for Antitrust Scholarship for the best antitrust work in 2019. Professor Žaldokas currently serves as a pro bono advisor for Lithuanian Competition Authority.