Franklin ALLEN is Professor of Finance and Economics and Executive Director of the Brevan Howard Centre at Imperial College London since 2014. Prior to joining Imperial College London, he was Professor at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he now has Emeritus status. He was formerly Vice Dean and Director of Wharton Doctoral Programs, Co-Director of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center, Executive Editor of the Review of Financial Studies and Managing Editor of the Review of Finance. He is a past President of the American Finance Association, the Western Finance Association, the Society for Financial Studies, the Financial Intermediation Research Society and the Financial Management Association, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society.

His main areas of interest are corporate finance, asset pricing, financial innovation, comparative financial systems, and financial crises. He is a co-author with Richard Brealey and Stewart Myers of the textbook Principles of Corporate Finance (8th-12th editions).

Franklin ALLEN will present a paper, joint with Gadi BARLEVY and Douglas GALE, at the next Departmental Seminar via Zoom on the theme:

Asset Price Booms and Macroeconomic Policy: a Risk-Shifting Approach (read paper, PDF 558.19 KB)

More about Franklin ALLEN an his research

Date: Monday, May 10th - 2:45 PM
Location: Zoom