ROBERT CULL is a lead economist in the Finance and Private Sector Development Team of the Development Research Group of the World Bank. His most recent research is on the performance of microfinance institutions, African financial development, the effects of the global financial crisis on developing economies, and the design and use of household surveys to measure access to financial services. He has published more than twenty-five articles in peer-reviewed academic journals including the Economic Journal, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Law and Economics, and the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking. He is also co-editor of the Interest Bearing Notes, a bi-monthly newsletter reporting on financial and private sector research. Prior to joining the World Bank, Bob was an economist at the U.S. Dept. of Commerce and a visiting assistant professor of economics at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has a B.A. in applied mathematics and political science from Northwestern University and holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in social science from the California Institute of Technology.
Contact Information: Robert Cull, c/o research@worldbank.org
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