Mr. Sheehan has 40 years of teaching experience, 33 years as a Professor of Finance at the University of Notre Dame. Prior, he was an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Mr. Sheehan started McGuire Performance Solutions with William McGuire, Ph.D. in 1997 and developed the patented Advanced Assessment Methodology for analyzing core deposits and loan prepayments. His primary research areas are money and banking, quantitative methods, and the economics of sports.
Mr. Sheehan has published in some of the leading journals in economics, including American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, European Economic Review, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Economic Inquiry, and International Journal of Forecasting.
At MVRA his responsibility is to ensure that the analytical background of every deposit and loan study follows best practices both in terms of statistical analysis and economic theory. He also works in model validation services analyzing financial and statistical models for financial risk. Mr. Sheehan holds a Bachelor of Science in Math and Economics from College of the Holy Cross and a PH.D. degree in Economics from Boston College.