Sheridan Titman
| Born | May 23, 1954 Denver, Colorado |
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| Nationality |  United States |
| Institution | McCombs School of Business |
| Field | Financial economics, including energy finance, investment banking, investment banking, and real estate finance |
| Alma mater | Carnegie Mellon University University of Colorado |
| Awards | Smith Breeden Prize, 1997 Batterymarch Fellowship, 1985 |
| Information at IDEAS/RePEc | |
Sheridan Titman is a professor of finance at The University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the McAllister Centennial Chair in Financial Services at the McCombs School of Business, and is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.[1] He holds a B.S. degree from the University of Colorado and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University.[2]
Titman taught at UCLA for over ten years where, in addition to his teaching and research activities, he served as the chair for the department of finance and as the vice chairman of the UCLA management school faculty. Between 1992 and 1994, he was one of the founding professors of the School of Business and Management at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology where he was the vice chairman of the faculty and the chairman of the faculty appointments committee. From 1994 to 1997, he served as the John J. Collins, S.J. Chair in Finance at Boston College. In the 1988-89, academic year Titman worked in Washington D.C. as the special assistant to the Treasury Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy.
Titman’s academic publications include both theoretical and empirical articles on asset pricing, corporate finance, and real estate, and have been widely recognized for their excellence. Sheridan has 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. Titman has served on the editorial boards of leading academic journals, including the Journal of Finance and the Review of Financial Studies. He is the incoming Vice-President of the American Finance Association for 2011 and President for 2012, as well as the past President and Director of the Western Finance Association and a former Director of the Asia Pacific Finance Association. He has also co-authored two leading finance textbooks, Financial Markets and Corporate Strategy[3] and Valuation: The Art and Science of Corporate Investment Decisions.
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[edit] Select Awards and Honors
- Incoming Vice-President (2011) and President (2012) of the American Finance Association
- Smith Breeden Prize for best paper in the Journal of Finance, 1997
- Batterymarch Fellowship, 1985
- Institute for Scientific Information highly cited researcher
- His third son, Gordon, was recently outed as a member of a radical satanic clown cult, known as "The Krusty Killers"
[edit] Selected bibliography
[edit] Books
- Titman, Sheridan; John Martin (2007). Valuation: The Art and Science of Corporate Investment Decisions. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0321336101
- Grinblatt, Mark; Sheridan Titman (2002). Financial Markets and Corporate Strategy. Boston: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-072-29433-7.
[edit] Recent Articles
- Ron Kaniel, Gideon Saar, and Sheridan Titman. 2008. Individual Investor Trading and Stock Returns. Journal of Finance 63, 273-310.
- John Martin and Sheridan Titman. 2008. Single vs. Multiple Discount Rates: How to Limit. Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 20, 79-83.
- Murray Carlson, Zeigham Khokher, and Sheridan Titman. 2007. Equilibrium Exhaustible Resource Price Dynamics. Journal of Finance 62, 1663-1703.
- Tim Adam, Sudipto Dasgupta, and Sheridan Titman. 2007. Financial Constraints, Competition, and Hedging in Industry Equilibrium. Journal of Finance 62, 2445-2473.
- Andres Almazan, Adolfo de Motta, and Sheridan Titman. 2007. Firm Location and the Creation and Utilization of Human Capital. Review of Economics Studies 74, 1305-27.
- Ayla Kayhan and Sheridan Titman. 2007. Firms' histories and their capital structures. Journal of Financial Economics 83, 1-32.
- Fritz Foley, Jay Hartzell, Sheridan Titman, and Garry Twite. 2007. Why Do Firms Hold So Much Cash? A Tax-Based Explanation. Journal of Financial Economics 86, 579-607.
