Savva's research interests include but are not limited to asset pricing, financial econometrics, anomalies on financial markets, alternative investment, economics of cryptocurrencies, international finance, and econometrics of economic growth. 

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• Analyst herding – whether, why, and when? Two new tests for herding detection in target forecast prices, Reveley, C., Shanaev, S., Bin, Y., Panta, H., Ghimire, B. 28 Dec 2023, In: Economics and Business Review
• LGBT CEOs and Stock Returns: Diagnosing Rainbow Ceilings and Cliffs, Shanaev, S., Skorochodova, A., Vasenin, M. 1 Oct 2023, In: Research in International Business and Finance
• Turn-of-the-candle effect in bitcoin returns, Shanaev, S., Vasenin, M., Stepanov, R. Mar 2023, In: Heliyon
• A Generalised Seasonality Test and Applications for Cryptocurrency and Stock Market Seasonality, Shanaev, S., Ghimire, B. 1 Nov 2022, In: Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance
• Effects of official versus online review ratings, Ghimire, B., Shanaev, S., Lin, Z. 1 Jan 2022, In: Annals of Tourism Research
• The Groundhog Day stock market anomaly, Shanaev, S., Shuraeva, A., Fedorova, S. 1 Jun 2022, In: Finance Research Letters
• When ESG meets AAA: The effect of ESG rating changes on stock returns, Shanaev, S., Ghimire, B. 1 May 2022, In: Finance Research Letters
• Efficient scholars: academic attention and the disappearance of anomalies, Shanaev, S., Ghimire, B. 11 Feb 2021, In: The European Journal of Finance
• Children's toy or grown-ups' gamble? LEGO sets as an alternative investment, Shanaev, S., Shimkus, N., Ghimire, B., Sharma, S. 30 Nov 2020, In: Journal of Risk Finance
• New Evidence on the Institutional Causes of Economic Growth: Using Peer Pressure to Unbundle Institutions across Countries, Shanaev, S., Wanjiru, R. 6 Jul 2020, AIB 2020 Online

• Accounting and Finance PhD July 19 2021
• Financial Management BA (Hons) July 31 2017
• Associate Fellow, Advance HE UK AFHEA 2019