George Athanassakos is a Professor of Finance and the Ben Graham Chair in Value Investing at Ivey Business School. He has been ranked among the top 10 researchers and also among the top 10 professors in Canada.
He studied Economics and Business Administration at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He later received an MA, MBA and a PhD from York University in Toronto, an educational institution ranking among the top 100 universities in the world.
He has researched extensively the institutional attributes of the Canadian capital markets, the effect institutional trading and analysts” forecasts have on stock market performance, stock and bond market anomalies and bond and equity valuation issues.
He has prepared studies on the Canadian capital markets and industry analyses for Greece and Canada. His cases have been published in Canadian Cases in Financial Accounting, Cases in Hospitality Management and Case Research Journal.
