Jeffrey A. Frankel

James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth
Harvard Kennedy School,
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Office Address
Littauer-217
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 83
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-496-3834
Fax: 617-496-5747
Email: Jeffrey_Frankel@harvard.edu
Assistant
Minoo Ghoreishi (617-384-7329)
Jeffrey Frankel

Profile

Jeffrey A. Frankel is James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth. He directs the Program in International Finance and Macroeconomics at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he is also on the Business Cycle Dating Committee, which officially declares recessions. He served at the Council of Economic Advisers in 1983-84 and 1996-99;as CEA Member in the Clinton Administration, Frankel's responsibilities included international economics, macroeconomics, and the environment. Before coming to Harvard in 1999, he was Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. He currently serves on advisory panels for the Federal Reserve Banks of New York and Boston, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Peterson Institute for International Economics. His research interests include international finance, commodities, currencies, crises, monetary policy, fiscal policy, regional blocs, and international environmental issues. Born in San Francisco, he graduated from Swarthmore College, and received his economics PhD from MIT.

Courses

Fall

  • API-120 Advanced Macroeconomics for the Open Economy I

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Research

For a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Academic Journal/Scholarly Articles
    • Frankel, Jeffrey A., and Jesse Schreger. "Over-optimistic Official Forecasts and Fiscal Rules in the Eurozone." Review of World Economics (published online, February 14, 2013).
    • Frankel, Jeffrey A., Carlos A Vegh, and Guillermo Vulentin. "On Graduation from Fiscal Procyclicality." Journal of Development Economics 100.1 (January 2013): 32–47.
    • Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Internationalization of the RMB and Historical Precedents." Journal of Economic Integration 27.3 (September 2012): 329-365.
    • Frankel, Jeffrey A., and George Saravelos. "Can Leading Indicators Assess Country Vulnerability? Evidence from the 2008–09 Global Financial Crisis." Journal of International Economics 87.2 (July 2012): 216–231.
    • Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Economic Shocks and International Politics." Survival: Global Politics and Strategy 54.3 (June/July 2012): 29–46.
    • Frankel, Jeffrey A., David Parsley, and Shang-Jin Wei. "Slow Pass-through Around the World: A New Import for Developing Countries?" Open Economies Review 23.2 (April 2012): 213-251.
    • Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Product Price Targeting -- A New Improved Way of Inflation Targeting." Macroeconomic Review XI.1 (April 2012): 78-81.
    • Frankel, Jeffrey A. "What Small Countries Can Teach the World." Business Economics 47 (2012): 97–103.
  • Book Chapters
    • Frankel, Jeffrey A. "The Natural Resource Curse: A Survey of Diagnoses and Some Prescriptions." Commodity Price Volatility and Inclusive Growth in Low-Income Countries. Ed. Rabah Arezki, Catherine A Pattillo, Marc Quintyn, and Min Zhu. International Monetary Fund, October 2012.
    • Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Choosing an Exchange Rate Regime." Handbook of Exchange Rates. Ed. Jessica James, Ian Marsh, and Lucio Sarno. Wiley, 2012, 767.
  • Commentary
    • Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Will Europe’s Fiscal Compact Work?" Project Syndicate, January 18, 2013.
    • Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Cuban Time Travel." Project Syndicate, November 22, 2012.
    • Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Four Magic Tricks for Fiscal Conservatives." Project Syndicate, October 22, 2012.
    • Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Mitt Romney Rejects His Natural Voters." Project Syndicate, September 24, 2012.
    • Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Obamacare Champions Personal Responsibility. The States that Hate it Don't." Christian Science Monitor, September 6, 2012.
    • Frankel, Jeffrey A. "A Flock of Black Swans." Project Syndicate, August 20, 2012.
    • Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Fiscal Follies of First World Governments." Business Times, August 7, 2012.
    • Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Could Eurobonds Be the Answer to the Eurozone Crisis?" Voxeu.org, June 27, 2012.
    • Frankel, Jeffrey A. "The Death of Inflation Targeting." Voxeu.org, June 19, 2012.
    • Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Budgetary Wishful Thinking." Project Syndicate, April 12, 2012.
  • Edited Volumes
    • Frankel, Jeffrey A., and Christopher Pissarides, eds. NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2011, Volume 8. University of Chicago Press, 2012.
  • HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series
    • Frankel, Jeffrey A. "The Future of the Currency Union." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP13-015, May 2013.
    • Frankel, Jeffrey A., and Jesse Schreger. "Over-Optimistic Official Forecasts in the Eurozone and Fiscal Rules." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP12-041, September 2012.