Franklin Allen

European-based economist of financial systems, contagion, and comparative finance

financial systemsfinancial contagioncomparative finance

Official Source Note

Imperial College Business School identifies Allen as Professor of Finance and Economics and Executive Director of the Brevan Howard Centre for Financial Analysis. His research spans comparative financial systems, crises, contagion, and corporate finance.

Allen is included because financial regulation depends on how different market and banking architectures allocate liquidity, information, and losses during ordinary conditions and systemic stress.

Source: Imperial College Business School

Relevance to the Archive

Allen helps the archive compare financial architectures and identify how interbank claims, market incompleteness, legal institutions, and crisis-management rules shape systemic resilience.

Representative Contributions

Financial Contagion (with Douglas Gale, 2000)
Comparing Financial Systems (with Douglas Gale, 2000)
Law, Finance, and Economic Growth in China (with Jun Qian and Meijun Qian, 2005)
Understanding Financial Crises (with Douglas Gale, 2007)