Marcel Fafchamps (Stanford University)

Submitted: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 06:39:16 -0700 (PDT)


Marcel Fafchamps
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Stanford University
Stanford, California  94305  USA

phone:   415-723-3251 (to be changed soon)
fax:     415-725-7007 (to be changed soon)
e-mail:  fafchamp@leland.stanford.edu

Home page:
http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~fafchamp

I am an economist.  I have a PhD in agricultural economics from UC
Berkeley and Licences in Law and in Economics from the Catholic University
of Louvain-la-Neuve.  I teach economics at Stanford since 1989, first at
the Food Research Institute, now in the Department of Economics.  I have
lived in Africa for several years and visited over half of African
countries.  My wife is Ethiopian. 

I have taught at Stanford an MA/undergraduate course on economic
development in Africa entitled: Development Theory at Work: Can Africa
Succeed?  For that course I have developed a CD ROM courseware entitled
"Welcome to Africa".  The CD contains over 450 pictures of everyday life
in Africa and a simulation game inviting the player to become an African
farmer.  It can be purchased directly from the publisher, Walnut Creek CD
ROM.  I also teach econometrics and development economics. 

My current research focuses on microeconomic and institutional issues such
as market emergence, trust and reputation, and on risk coping mechanisms.