Denis Sosyura is the James and Elizabeth Robertson Professor of Finance at Arizona State University (ASU). His research focuses on corporate finance and governance, financial institutions, and financial media. His most recent projects study the role of non-pecuniary incentives in executive contracting and the inner workings of corporate governance at private banks and startup firms.
His work has been published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies and received over a dozen best paper awards. He serves as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and holds the Distinguished Referee Award from the Review of Financial Studies. His teaching has also been recognized by several awards, such as the Most Impactful Finance Professor, the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, and the John W. Teets Graduate Teaching Award.
Before joining ASU, he served on the finance faculty at the University of Michigan. He holds a PhD in Finance from Yale University and an MBA in Finance from Vanderbilt University.
Education
Ph.D. Finance, Yale University, New Haven, CT 2008
M.B.A. Finance and Accounting, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 2003
B.A. Finance, Kharkiv National University of Economics, Kharkiv, Ukraine 2001
