Sheridan Titman*
2019-2021

Sheridan Titman holds the McAllister Centennial Chair in Financial Services at the University of Texas at Austin and is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Texas, Sheridan was a Professor at UCLA, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Boston College and spent the 1988-89 academic year in Washington D.C. as the special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy. Sheridan’s academic publications include both theoretical and empirical articles on asset pricing, corporate finance, and energy finance as well as real estate and urban economics. His real estate research includes work on housing prices, real options, commercial mortgages and real estate investment trusts. His urban economics research includes work on industrial clustering, the link between the urban environment and contracting, and the link between urban vibrancy and corporate investment choices.

He won the Smith-Breeden best paper award for the Journal of Finance, the GSAM best paper award for the Review of Finance and was a recipient of the Batterymarch Fellowship. Sheridan has served on the editorial boards of leading academic journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies and Real Estate Economics. He has served as President of both the Western Finance Association and the American Finance Association and has served as a Director of the American Finance Association, the Western Finance Association, the Financial Management Association and the Asia Pacific Finance Association. He has also co-authored three finance textbooks, Financial Markets and Corporate StrategyValuation: The Art and Science of Corporate Investment Decisions, and Financial Management: Principles and Applications.

Sheridan has a B.S. from the University of Colorado and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University.