Gustavo Franco

Quick Facts

Full Name	Gustavo Franco
Occupation	Brazilian economist
Date Of Birth	Apr 10, 1956(1956-04-10)
Age	68
Birthplace	Rio de Janeiro
Country	Brazil
Birth City	Rio de Janeiro
Horoscope	Aries

Gustavo Franco Biography

Gustavo Franco is one of the most popular and richest Brazilian economist who was born on April 10, 1956 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Winston Fritsch was his advisor in his M. A. thesis on the topic of financial euphoria and crash in the early years of the Brazilian Republic (1889-1890) and the attempts at monetary reform in connection either adhering to the gold standard or, alternatively to experience with fiat currency models, as proposed by Ruy Barbosa. His M. A. thesis was approved cum landae in 1982 and in 1983 won the prestigious “Prêmio BNDES de Economia” for the M. A. thesis in Brazil. This work was published as a book titled Monetary reform and instability during the republican transition (“Reforma monetária e instabilidade durante a transição republicana””) and became a reference to the period it covers.

Franco was born in Rio de Janeiro on April 10, 1956. His mother Maria Isabel Barbosa de Barroso Franco, was from Teófilo Otoni, province of Minas Gerais, and his father, Guilherme Arinos Lima Verde de Barroso Franco, was born in Itacoatiara, at the backlands of the state of Amazonas. Guilherme Arinos made a career at Banco do Brasil and during the war started a lifelong friendship and association to President Getúlio Vargas. Arinos was a member of the first board of directors of the Brazilian National Development Bank, BNDES, and later, at the private sector, was a high ranked executive of Volkswagen do Brasil and one of the founders of Banco Garantia.

Gustavo Franco Net Worth

Gustavo Franco is one of the richest Brazilian economist from Brazil. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gustavo Franco 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In sequence to the work on monetary reforms in the early years of the Republic, Franco published several pieces on the Brazilian monetary experience in the years prior to the Great Depression. All this work is in Portuguese except “Aspects of the Brazilian Experience with the Gold Standard”, in Pablo Matín Aceña and Jaime Reis (orgs.) Monetary standards in the periphery: paper, silver and gold, 1854-1933 (London, Macmillan Press. 2000). Later, his research on the early years of the Republic would communicate well with his work of Machado de Assis newspapers articles as per his selection of chronicles under the title “O olhar obliquo do acionista” ( “Shareholders oblique look”, as literal translation).

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Sachs and Eichengreen were his supervisors, and along with MIT professor Lance Taylor, formed his thesis committee. Franco earned his Ph.D Degree at Harvard in 1986, with a dissertation titled Aspects of the Economics of Hyperinflations: Theoretical Issues and Historical Studies of Four European Hyperinflations of the 1920s. His original thesis had four theoretical chapters on topics as the adoption of indexation in contracts, inflation (stabilization) as public good problem, plagued by free rider issues, the inflation tax as motivation to the process and the dynamics of dollarization, distributive tensions and external balance. The applied chapters were case studies for Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Poland, also including some common themes like the relation between external imbalances, dollarization and fiscal reforms in the context of specific stabilization experiences.

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Guy Ranked on the list of most popular Brazilian economist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Brazil. Gustavo Franco celebrates birthday on April 10 of every year.

This work was nominated to the David Wells Prize in Harvard and was awarded a national prize (“Prêmio Haralambos Simionides”) in 1987, for the best Ph.D thesis or book in economics, given by the National Association of Graduate Studies in Economics (ANPEC, Associação Nacional de Centros de Pós Graduação em Economia).