Franz Prante is a researcher at Chemnitz University of Technology, where he is working on meta-analyses of the effects of monetary policy and energy prices and on the social-ecological effects of green public expenditures in Europe. His other work focuses on macroeconomic regimes and growth models, economic policy, and financial systems (see his Google Scholar profile and other projects).

He holds a PhD in Economics and is an associate member of the Institute for International Political Economy (IPE Berlin).