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Caroline Fohlin is Professor of Economics at Emory University, where she has taught since 2012. She earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley and her B.S. in Mathematics and Quantitative Economics from Tufts University.
Professor Fohlin is a leading scholar in financial and economic history, specializing in the political economy of banking systems, capital markets, and industrial development. Her research examines long-run patterns of financial development across nations, with particular expertise in German financial history and comparative financial systems.
She is the author of two highly cited monographs: Mobilizing Money: How the World’s Richest Nations Financed Industrial Growth (Cambridge University Press, 2012), which received the UFJ Bank Monograph Prize, and Finance Capitalism and Germany’s Rise to Industrial Power (Cambridge University Press, 2007). Her work has been published in top journals including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Economic History, Economic History Review, and Review of Finance.
Professor Fohlin is a Research Fellow at CEPR London, a SAFE Fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research, and a Fellow of the CESifo Network. She has received substantial funding from the National Science Foundation and other organizations. She serves as Co-Editor of Financial History Review and has held visiting professorships at Harvard Business School, Paris School of Economics, and the University of Frankfurt.
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