Raphael Franck

Raphaël Franck is Visiting Professor at the University of Stuttgart (Germany) as well as a CEPR Research Fellow, a CESIfo Research Associate and a GLO Fellow. He held visiting positions at George Mason University (USA) and at Brown University (USA) where he was a Marie Curie EU Fellow. He holds a B.A. and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Paris (France). His primary research interests lie in the areas of political economy and economic growth with regional foci on Western Europe and sub-Saharan Africa from 1800 to the present. His research has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as the American Political Science Review, Econometrica, the Economic Journal, the Journal of Monetary Economics and the Review of Economics and Statistics.