Franz Palm

Franz Christian Palm (born May 15, 1948) is a Belgian economist. He is a Professor of Econometrics at Maastricht University. He was also appointed Academy Professor in Econometrics by Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in 2005. He became a foreign member of the KNAW in 2000.

Palm earned his doctorate from the Université catholique de Louvain in 1975, with a dissertation on “Time Series Analysis and Simultaneous Equation Systems with Macroeconomic Applications.” He conducted most of the research that went into this thesis at the University of Chicago (1972–74), together with Arnold Zellner.