Educational Background

Dr. Malkova received a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in Applied Math and Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (2011), a M.A. in Economics from New Economic School (2015), and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2020).

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor, Florida Institute of Technology since August 2021

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Missouri-Columbia 2020-2021

Teaching Fellow, UNC Chapel Hill 2015-2020

Current Courses

BUS 1301 Basic Economics

BUS 2304 Microeconomics

BUS 3305 Sport Economics

BUS 3704 Quantitative Methods

BUS 4304 Sport Finance

BUS 5421 Managerial Economics

Selected Publications

1. "Knockin' on the bank's door: The impact of U.S. bank branch closures on self-employment dynamics", Southern Economic Association Journal, June 2024, DOI: 10.1002/soej.12708
2. "The Impact of Formal and Informal Credit Institutions on Entrepreneurship", Journal of Financial Economic Policy, July 2024, DOI: 10.1108/JFEP-01-2024-0014 
3. Alina Malkova, Klara Peter,
   The journey to formality: How credit market access shapes informal workers' choices, Journal of Comparative Economics,
   2025
4. Alina Malkova, Alex Weng,
   Beyond banks: Navigating the shift to peer-to-peer lending for small enterprises, Research in Economics, Volume 78, Issue 4,
   2024