Wolfgang Franz

Prof.
Dr. Wolfgang Franz is a Chief Executive Officer at Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH.
After his studies he worked as a research associate at the University of Mannheim As a research fellow he spent two years at Harvard University and at the National Bureau of Economic Research, USA. In 1981 he habilitated on the problem of youth unemployment.
He accepted a professorship at the University of Mainz and then a chair at the University of Stuttgart in 1984.
In 1988 he accepted a chair at the University of Konstanz.
Although he was offered a chair at the University of Zürich and Berlin and he stayed in Konstanz until April 1st, 1997 when he became the President of the Center for European Economic Research, Mannheim and accepted a chair for economics at the University of Mannheim.
He is a member of various international research institutes and a member of the German Council of Economic Experts.
He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology.
His main research areas are macroeconomics, labour economics, and empirical methods in economics.
Professor Franz has published numerous books and scientific articles on these topics.
Dr. Franz studied economics at the University of Mannheim.
He got a doctoral degree in 1974 on a macroeconometric analysis of the German labour market.