Shasta Shakya

Shasta Shakya is a Clinical Assistant Professor of finance at Arizona State University. She joined ASU in 2021. Prior to ASU, she worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor of finance at Tulane University for three years after completing her PhD in finance at Pennsylvania State University.

Her primary areas of research are banking, corporate governance, and empirical corporate finance. Her recent work studies banking networks and their implications for spillover effects on bank lending behavior. Her recent work also studies professional networks amongst board directors, their role in director learning and performance, and their implications for the career of directors. Her work has been published in Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and Journal of Corporate Finance.

At ASU, she teaches courses in Managerial Finance, Advanced Managerial Finance, and Principles of Entrepreneurship. Previously, she has taught courses in Security Analysis and Portfolio Management, and Analysis of Fixed Income Securities.

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