Franz Palm

{{Short description|Dutch economist}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1948|5|15|mf=y}}

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| nationality = Belgian

| institution = Maastricht University

| field = Econometrics

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| alma_mater = Université catholique de Louvain

| influences = Jacques Drèze
Arnold Zellner

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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.{{cite web|url=http://www.merit.unu.edu/about-us/profile/?staff_id=1053 |title=UNU-MERIT » Prof. Dr. Franz Palm UNU-MERIT |website=Merit.unu.edu |date= |accessdate=2016-04-10}} He became a foreign member of the KNAW in 2000.{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/foreign-members/4632 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160419203434/https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/foreign-members/4632 |title=Franz Palm |publisher=Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |date= |archive-date=19 April 2016 |accessdate=19 April 2016}}

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),{{cite web|url=https://www.fh-aachen.de/hochschule/hochschulrat/prof-dr-dr-h-c-franz-c-palm/ |title=FH Aachen: Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Franz C. Palm |website=Fh-aachen.de |date= |accessdate=2016-04-10}} together with Arnold Zellner.{{cite journal |first=Arnold |last=Zellner |first2=Franz |last2=Palm |title=Time Series Analysis and Simultaneous Equation Econometric Models |journal=Journal of Econometrics |volume=2 |issue=1 |year=1974 |pages=17–54 |doi=10.1016/0304-4076(74)90028-1 }}