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Franklin Allen
Nippon Life Professor of Finance; Professor of Economics


Education

DPhil, University of Oxford, 1980; MPhil, University of Oxford, 1979; BA, University of East Anglia, 1977

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards

The Class of 1984 Teaching Award, 1996, 1997; Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Award, 1993, 1999; Excellence in Teaching Award (Graduate Division), 1990, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002; Miller-Sherrerd MBA Core Teaching Award, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002; Undergraduate Division Excellence in Teaching Award, 1991; Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2001.

Academic Positions Held

Wharton: 1980-present (named Nippon Life Professor of Finance, 1994; Vice Dean and Director, Doctoral Programs, 1990-93; Associate Director, Doctoral Programs, 1988-90; Co-Director, Financial Institutions Center, 2000-present). Visiting appointments: University of Oxford; University of Tokyo; University of Frankurt; Princeton University. Adjunct Appointments: New York University.

Professional Leadership 2005-2009

President, American Finance Association, 2000; Associate Editor, Financial Management, 1991-present

Corporate and Public Sector Leadership 2005-2009

Director, The Glenmede Fund, 1991-present

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Publications
Franklin Allen, Elena Carletti, Robert Marquez (2009), Credit Market Competition and Capital Regulation, Forthcoming, Review of Financial Studies
Franklin Allen, Elena Carletti, Douglas Gale (2009), Interbank Market Liquidity and Central Bank Intervention, Journal of Monetary Economics, 56(5), July 2009, 639-652.
Franklin Allen, Ana Babus, Elena Carletti (2009), Financial Crises: Theory and Evidence, Annual Review of Financial Economics, December 2009.
Franklin Allen, Ana Babus (2009), Networks in Finance, The Network Challenge, Edited by Paul Kleindorfer and Jerry Wind, Wharton School Publishing, 367-382.
Franklin Allen, Elena Carletti (2008), Mark-to-Market Accounting and Liquidity Pricing, Journal of Accounting and Economics, 45(2-3), August 2008, 358-378.

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Current Research
Franklin Allen, The African Financial Development Gap (with E. Carletti, R. Cull, J. Qian and L. Senbet), Working Paper 10-18, Wharton Financial Institutions Center, University of Pennsylvania.
Franklin Allen, African Financial Systems: A Review (with I. Ochere and L. Sembet), Working Paper 10-11, Wharton Financial Institutions Center, University of Pennsylvania.
Franklin Allen, "Stakeholder Capitalism, Corporate Governance and Firm Value" (with E. Carletti and R. Marquez), Working Paper 09-28, Wharton Financial Institutions Center, University of Pennsylvania.
Franklin Allen, "Financing Firms in India" (with R. Chakrabarti, S. De, J. Qian and M. Qian), Working Paper 06-08, Wharton Financial Institutions Center, University of Pennsylvania.
Franklin Allen, "Financial Connections and Systemic Risk" (with A. Babus and E. Carletti), Working Paper 10-20, Wharton Financial Institutions Center, University of Pennsylvania.

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Allen Franklin
Franklin Allen
2253 Steinberg-Dietrich Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: (215) 898-3629
allenf@wharton.upenn.edu

Research Interests:
Corporate finance; asset pricing; economics of information