Franklin Allen

Who is Franklin Allen?

Franklin Allen is the Nippon Life Professor of Finance and Economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is most active in the research areas of financial innovations, asset price bubbles, the comparison of financial systems, and financial crises.

Allen was Associate Professor of Finance and Associate Professor of Finance and Economics at the Wharton School from 1980 to 1990, when he became Vice Dean and Director of the Wharton Doctoral Programs and Professor of Finance and Economics. In 1994 he was assigned to the chair of Nippon Life Professor of Finance and Economics as professor. Additionally, he took the position of co-director of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center. He has also visited diverse universities and research centers in the context of visiting professorships, academic fellowships and scientific advisory such as the University of Tokyo, the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität of Francfort, the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, the Stockholm School of Economics and Gothenburg University in Sweden.