The professor of economics taught an economics of microfinance course at RWTH Aachen University.
Steve DeLoach, professor and chair of the Department of Economics, recently taught a graduate seminar at RWTH University in Aachen, Germany.
The three-week seminar focused on the economics of microfinance, an area in which DeLoach has been researching and publishing for the last 10 years. He teaches a similar undergraduate course at Elon.
RWTH is one of the top universities in Germany. Its School of Business and Economics is accredited by AACSB International.
DeLoach joined Elon in 1993. He earned both doctorate and master’s degrees in economics from Michigan State University. His most recent research on microfinance looked at the relative importance of access to formal savings and credit on the ability of families to insure themselves against income loss when faced with the illness of an adult family member.