Franklin Allen

Franklin Allen ( born March 6, 1956 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom) is a British economist.

Career, teaching and research

Allen studied economics and computer science to 1977 at the University of East Anglia. Then he made up his 1979 Master of Philosophy at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Joseph E. Stiglitz, before 1980 PhD supervisor James Mirrlees as Ph.D. graduated.

Since 1980, Allen is at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. As of September of the year until the summer of 1986 as an assistant professor, then with changing responsibilities as an Associate Professor. In 1990 he was appointed a full professor and associate dean at the same time as well as director of the doctoral program. In January 1994 he was appointed to the Nihon Seimei Hoken sponsored by Nippon -Life - Chair of the Wharton School. In parallel, he was a guest lecturer on various continents, among others worked at the Stockholm School of Economics, Indian School of Business, Princeton University, Johann Wolfgang Goethe- University Frankfurt am Main.

In addition to his research and teaching activities held various senior positions at all national and international research institutions. So it was between 1996 and 1997 and director in 2000 president of the American Finance Association. In parallel he led between 1996 and 1999, the Society for Financial Studies. Between 2007 and 2008 he was serving as the president of the International Atlantic Economic Society.

The focus of Allen's are corporate finance, business valuation, and information economics. Since 2007, he has published several books on the financial crisis from 2007. Moreover, he has been published in 2005, the eighth edition of Principles of Corporate Finance, a standard work of Corporate Finance, one of the main authors Richard A. Brealey and Stewart next to C. Myers.

Allen 's Advisory Board of Fair Observer.