Economics Professor Receives Research Grant for Lifetime Achievement in the Sciences
June 7, 2004
Professor Francis X. Diebold has received a Humboldt Research Award from Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in recognition of lifetime achievement in the sciences. The award will provide funding for Professor Diebold to travel to Germany to conduct research there with scholars in his field.
Dr. Diebold is the W.P. Carey Term Professor in Economics in the School of Arts and Sciences and a professor of finance and statistics in the Wharton School. His scholarly interests include econometrics, forecasting, finance, and macroeconomics. He has published extensively and has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals, including Econometrica and Review of Economics and Statistics. He is an elected Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Statistical Association, and he has received several prizes for outstanding teaching. From 1986 to 1989, he served as an economist under Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C. Professor Diebold received his B.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981 and 1986, respectively. In addition to his appointment at Penn, he is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts.