Prof. Dr. Franz Palm




Franz C. Palm was appointed Academy Professor in Econometrics by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005. He has been a professor of econometrics at Maastricht University (since 1985) and at the Free University, Amsterdam, 1980-1985. He served three terms as Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Maastricht University between 1986 and 2006. He holds a PhD. degree in economics/econometrics from the University of Louvain. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Louvain and at the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, and a visiting fellow at Harvard University and at Université de Montréal. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, the European Economic Association and CESifo, and a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Franz C. Palm is founding co-editor of the Journal of Empirical Finance, member of the editorial board of De Economist, and associate editor of the Journal of Econometrics.



Selected publications by Franz Palm


Articles (journal, professional, popular)
Raymond, Wladimir, Jacques Mairesse, Pierre Mohnen & Franz Palm, 2015, Dynamic models of R & D, innovation and productivity: Panel data evidence for Dutch and French manufacturing, European Economic Review, 78: 285-306, DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2015.06.002, More information


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