Jeffrey Frankel

James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth
Harvard Kennedy School
Office Address
Littauer-217
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 22
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-496-3834
Fax: 617-496-5747
Email: Jeffrey_Frankel@ksg.harvard.edu
Assistant
Greg Dorchak (617-496-8304)
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. 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

  • API-120 Advanced Macroeconomics for the Open Economy I

Spring

  • ITF-220 Economics of International Financial Policy

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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
    • 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.
    • 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
    • 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.
    • Frankel, Jeffrey A. "On Global Currencies." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP09-026, September 1, 2009.
    • Frankel, Jeffrey A. "The Natural Resource Curse: A Survey." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP10-005, February 2010.
    • 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
    • Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Changing the Political Climate." Business Spectator. July 20, 2009.
    • Frankel, Jeffrey A. "What's In and Out in Global Money." Finance and Development. September 2009.
  • Research Papers/Reports
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Addressing the Leakage/Competitiveness Issue In Climate Change Policy Proposals." WCFIA Working Paper 4792, April 2009.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.