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John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 22
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
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. Nominated by President Clinton in
1996 to be a member of his Council of Economic Advisers, 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,
having joined the faculty in 1979. Past appointments also include
the Federal Reserve, Institute for International Economics,
International Monetary Fund, University of Michigan, and Yale
University. His research interests include international finance,
monetary policy, regional blocs, and international environmental
issues. Books include American Economic Policy in the 1990s
(2002). Born in San Francisco in 1952, he graduated from Swarthmore
College in 1974, and received his economics PhD from MIT in
1978.
Courses
Fall
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API-120
Advanced Macroeconomics for the Open Economy I
Spring
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ITF-220
Economics of International Financial Policy
Media Expertise
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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 Journals
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Cavallo, Eduardo, and Jeffrey A. Frankel. "Does Openness to Trade
Make Countries More Vulnerable to Sudden Stops, or Less? Using
Gravity to Establish Causality." Journal of International Money
and Finance 27.8 (December 2008): 1430-1452.
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Frankel, Jeffrey A. "The Symposium on 'China's Impact on the Global
Economy': New Estimation of China's Exchange Rate Regime."
Pacific Economic Review 14.3 (August 2009): 346-360.
- HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series
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Frankel, Jeffrey A., and Jumana Poonawala. "The Forward Market in
Emerging Currencies: Less Biased than in Major Currencies." HKS
Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP09-023, July 2009.
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Frankel, Jeffrey A. "On Global Currencies." HKS Faculty Research
Working Paper Series RWP09-026, September 1, 2009.
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Frankel, Jeffrey A. "The Natural Resource Curse: A Survey." HKS
Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP10-005, February 2010.
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Frankel, Jeffrey A., and Daniel Xie. "Estimation of De Facto
Flexibility Parameter and Basket Weights in Evolving Exchange Rate
Regimes." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP10-003,
February 2010.
- Magazine and Newspaper Articles
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Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Changing the Political Climate." Business
Spectator. July 20, 2009.
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Frankel, Jeffrey A. "What's In and Out in Global Money." Finance
and Development. September 2009.
- Research Papers/Reports
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Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Options for Addressing the
Leakage/Competitiveness Issue In Climate Change Policy Proposals."
Paper for Conference on Climate Change, Trade and Investment: Is a
Collusion Inevitable? Brookings Institution, Washington, D, June 9
2008.
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Frankel, Jeffrey A. "An Elaborated Proposal for Global Climate
Policy Architecture: Specific Formulas and Emission Targets for All
Countries in All Decades." Harvard Project on International Climate
Agreements Discussion Paper 08-08, October 2008.
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Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Addressing the Leakage/Competitiveness Issue
In Climate Change Policy Proposals." WCFIA Working Paper 4792,
April 2009.
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Frankel, Jeffrey A. "An Elaborated Global Climate Policy
Architecture: Specific Formulas and Emission Targets for All
Countries in All Decades." NBER Working Papers 14876, April 2009.
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Bosetti Valentina, and Jeffrey A. Frankel. "Global Climate Policy
Architecture and Political Feasibility: Specific Formulas and
Emission Targets to Attain 460 PPM CO2 Concentrations." The Harvard
Project on International Climate Agreements Discussion Paper Series
Discussion Paper 09-30 and NBER Working Papers 15516, November
2009.
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Frankel, Jeffrey A., and Daniel Xie. "Estimation of De Facto
Flexibility Parameter and Basket Weights in Evolving Exchange Rate
Regimes." NBER Working Papers 15620, December 2009.