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.

[2] 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),[3] together with Arnold Zellner.

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