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Raphaёl Franck

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ACADEMIC POSITION Since 2003: Lecturer, Bar Ilan University, Dept. of Economics, Israel.
LONG-TERM VISITING POSITION 2006-2008: Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Economics, George Mason University, USA.
EDUCATION Ph.D. in Economics, ESSEC Business School & University of Paris Pantheon-Assas, 2003. MA in Economics, University of Paris Pantheon-Assas, 1999. BA in Economics and Finance, University of Paris-Dauphine, 1997.
RESEARCH INTERESTS Political Economy, Economic History, Macroeconomics.
PUBLICATIONS Book: Currency crises: a theoretical and empirical perspective, with Andre Fourcans, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2003. (A file listing the typos in the book is available from my SSRN page). Articles: Economic growth and the separation of Church and State: the French case, Economic Inquiry, forthcoming. What do macroeconomic and political-economy data tell us about economic freedom?, Applied Economics Letters, 17, 269-272, 2010. Institutional changes, wars and stock market risk: evidence from the Israeli stock market from 1945 to 1960, with Miriam Krausz, Cliometrica, 3 (2), 141-164, 2009. Judicial independence under a divided polity: a study of the rulings of the French Constitutional Court, 1959-2006, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 25 (1), 262-282, 2009. Why separate monetary policy from banking supervision?, with Miriam Krausz, Journal of Comparative Economics, 36 (3), 388-411, 2008. Using neural networks to assess the impact of institutional arrangements on economic outcomes: inflation and the separation of monetary policy from banking supervision, Fuzzy Economic Review, 12 (1), 57-70, 2008 Who votes for ecologist parties? Evidence from suburban France, with Y. Egal, N. Gertchev, B. Jerome, B. Lemennicier and N. Vaillant, Homo Oeconomicus, 25 (1), 1-16, 2008. Income and vote switching between state and national elections: evidence from New York State, with Samia C. Tavares, Economics Bulletin, 4 (10), 1-10, 2008. Campaign resources and electoral success: evidence from the 2002 French parliamentary elections, with Gil Epstein, Public Choice, 131 (3-4), 469-489, 2007. Forecasting exchange rates: a robust regression approach, with Arie Preminger, International Journal of Forecasting 23, 71-84, 2007. Liquidity risk and bank portfolio allocation with Miriam Krausz, International Review of Economics and Finance, 16 (1), 60-77, 2007. Public safety and the moral dilemma in the defence against terror, with Arye L. Hillman and Miriam Krausz, Defence and Peace Economics 16 (5), 347-364, 2005. Guest editor: Symposium on the political economy of the French referendum on the European Constitution: An introduction, European Journal of Political Economy 21 (4), 2005. Why did a majority of French voters reject the European Constitution?, European Journal of Political Economy, 21 (4), 1071-1076, 2005. Book Reviews: Gilles Grin, The Battle of the Single European Market: Achievements in Economic Thought, 1945-2000, Kegan Paul, 2003 & Free Trade Today, by Jagdish Bhagwati, Princeton University Press, 2002, European Journal of Political Economy, 20 (4), 1100-1101, 2004. Gunther G. Schulze, The Political Economy of Capital Controls, Cambridge University Press, 2000, European Journal of Political Economy, 20 (3), 825-828, 2004. Horst Siebert, The World Economy, 2nd edition, Routledge, 2002, European Journal of Political Economy, 20 (1), 286-287, 2004. Roger B. Porter, Pierre Sauve, Arvind Subramanian, Americo Beviglia Zampetti (editors), Efficiency, Equity, Legitimacy: The Multilateral Trading System at the Millennium, Brookings Institution Press, 2001, European Journal of Political Economy, 19 (4), 912-914, 2003. Kenneth Dam, The rules of the global game: a new look at US economic policymaking, The University of Chicago Press, 2001, European Journal of Political Economy, 18 (4), 797-799, 2002.
PEER REVIEW ACTIVITIES Journals Actualite Economique, Asia Pacific Management Review, Atlantic Economic Journal, B.E. Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics, European Journal of Political Economy, German Economic Review, International Review of Economics and Finance, Journal of Applied Statistics, Journal of Economic Inequality, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Macroeconomics, New Mathematics and Natural Computation Journal. Book proposals John Wiley & Sons.
CONFERENCES AND INVITED SEMINARS (SINCE 2005)
2009
NBER Economics of Religion Conference, Boston, USA.
24th Congress of the European Economic Association (EEA), Barcelona, Spain.
NBER Summer Institute - Political Economy Workshop, Boston, USA.
Israeli Economic Association Meeting, Jerusalem, Israel.
Association for the Study of Religion, Economics and Culture, Annual Meeting,
Washington DC, USA.
2008
Seminar at the Faculty of Agricultural Economics, Hebrew University - Rehovot.
European Association for Law and Economics, University of Haifa, Israel.
European Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, University of Jena, Germany.
2007
Workshop in Philosophy, Politics and Economy, George Mason University.
Association for the Study of Religion, Economics and Culture, Annual Meeting, Tampa, USA.
European Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
2006
Center for the Study of Public Choice, George Mason University .
European Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, University of Turku, Finland.
2005
14th Tor Vergata Conference on Debt, Money and Finance in Integrated Global Markets, Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy.
14th Silvaplana Workshop on Political Economy, Switzerland.
12th Forecasting Financial Markets Conference, Universite de la Mediterranee, France.
European Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, Durham University, UK.
TEACHING Bar Ilan University Undergraduate: Econometrics. Graduate: Econometrics, International Finance, International Trade, Monetary Theory. George Mason University Undergraduate: Econometrics, Intermediate Macroeconomics, International Economic Policy, International Finance, International Trade.
GRANTS Aharon Meir Center for Banking, 2004. ESSEC Ph.D. Fellowship 1999-2002. LANGUAGES French (mother tongue), English (fluent), Hebrew (fluent), German (intermediate).
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