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Sheridan Titman

Walter W. McAllister Centennial Chair in Financial Services

Department:     Finance

Sheridan Titman Headshot
Sheridan Titman Headshot

Dr. Sheridan Titman holds the Walter W. McAllister Centennial Chair in Financial Services in the Department of Finance at the McCombs School of Business. Dr. Titman’s research focuses on the banking, capital markets, energy and investment banking industries. In addition to UT Austin, Dr. Titman has taught at the University of California, Los Angeles; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; and Boston College.

Dr. Titman’s academic publications include both theoretical and empirical articles on asset pricing, corporate finance and real estate and energy finance. Sheridan won the Smith-Breeden Prize for the best finance research paper published in the Journal of Finance, the GSAM best paper award for the Review of Finance and was a recipient of the Batterymarch Fellowship. Sheridan served on the editorial boards of leading academic journals, including the Journal of Finance and the Review of Financial Studies. He is the current President of the American Finance Association and was formerly the President and Director of the Western Finance Association and a former Director of the Asia Pacific Finance Association. He has also co-authored three finance textbooks, "Financial Markets and Corporate Strategy," "Valuation: The Art and Science of Corporate Investment Decisions," and “Financial Management: Principles and Applications.