CURRENT PUBLICATIONS or SPEECHES (2000-2011)

World Trade and Payments:  An Introduction by Richard Caves, Ronald Jones and Jeffrey Frankel   10th edition 2007,  Addison Wesley Longman: Boston.  International edition, 2006.      9th edition, 2002, including video interview.                                                                Translations of World Trade and Payments: Chinese, 2005, 2009;  Polish, 2004;  Japanese, 2003;  French, 2003.

On the American Economy

NEW "The Little Economy That Could," Foreign Policy, Feb.2, 2012.

NEW    “Escaping the Oil Curse,” Project Syndicate,  Dec. 9, 2011.  "Barrels, Bushels and Bonds,"  Project Syndicate, Oct.17, 2011.

NEW  “The Natural Resource Curse: A Survey of Diagnoses and Some Prescriptions,” forthcoming 2012, Commodity Price Volatility and Inclusive Growth in Low-Income Countries (IMF), R.Arezki & Z.Min, eds. Slides for  High Level Seminar, IMF, Sept.21, 2011;  Videoclip.   IMF Podcasts on the Curse: June 30 and July 6, 2011.

NEW  "The Curse: Why Natural Resources Are Not Always a Good Thing,”  Milken Institute Review, vol.13, no.4, 4^th quarter 2011: 28-39.

NEW “On Graduation from Procyclicality,” with Carlos Végh & Guillermo Vuletin, Sept.2011.  NBER WP 17619, Nov. 2011.  Summarized in "Fiscal Policy in Developing Countries: Escape from Procyclicality," Vox.eu, June 23, 2011.

NEW  "How Can Commodity Producers Make Fiscal and Monetary Policy Less Procyclical?” Beyond the Curse: Policies to Harness the Power of Natural Resources, R.Arezki, T.Gylfason & A.Sy, eds. (IMF, 2011).   HKS RWP 11-015, Feb.2011.  Keynote address,  High Level Seminar, IMF Institute & Central Bank of Algeria, Algiers 2010.

NEW  “A Solution to Fiscal Procyclicality:  The Structural Budget Institutions Pioneered by Chile,” forthcoming, Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomic Performance,  Series on Central Banking Analysis, and Economic Policies , vol.17, 2012 .   NBER WP 16945, April 2011.    "Looking to Chile for Fiscal Sanity" HKS, Feb.2011.   Central Bank of Chile  Working Paper 604,  Jan.2011.  CID WP 216,  Jan.2011.  Slides, 14th Annual Conference of the Central Bank of Chile, 2010, Santiago. 


“The Natural Resource Curse: A Survey,” 2012, Chapter 2 in  Beyond the Resource Curse, B.Shaffer & T.Ziyadov, ed. (U.Penn.Press); proofs & notes.  Summary.  NBER WP 15836, 2010.    WP 195, 2010, CID.   Presented, ADA 2010 [quote].


"Mauritius: African Success Story," forthcoming in a volume edited by S.Edwards, S.Johnson, & D.Weil, expected 2012.  NBER WP 16569, Dec.2010; featured in NBER Digest, May 2011.  NBER's African Successes Project.   Slides, Accra, Ghana, 2010.

"Are Bilateral Remittances Countercyclical?"   Open Economies Review vol.22, No.1, 2011, p.1.  Harvard Migration & Integration Program, Slides, 2010.  NBER WP 15419, 2009.  CID WP No.185.   Presented, 2009, Immigration &Global Development, CGD, slides.

LESSONS FROM SMALL COUNTRIES "Big Ideas from Small Countries,"in Project Syndicate newspapers, Oct.2010. copyright: Project Syndicate Reprinted in Business & Management Journal, vol.2, no.1, Jan. 2012. "Big Ideas from Small Countries" (with links to references), 8/15/10 blogpost;  Grandes idées en provenance des petits pays "What Small Countries Can Teach the World,” NBER Session, National Association of Business Economists Annual Meeting, Dallas, Sept.11, 2011 . [TV interview, BNN, 8/16/10.  ]    "A Lesson from the South for Fiscal Policy in the US & Other Advanced Countries," Comparative Economic Studies 53, no.3, Sept.2011, pp.407-430.    Slides, NYU, 2010.    ["What the United States could learn from Chile," FT.com, July 25, 2011; “The blame for the crisis lies with the ‘optimistic’,”Diario Financiero, Chile, Aug.12, 2011;  “How Intelligent Budget Rules Help Chile Prosper: Lessons For The US,” Business Insider, Jul.25, 2011; "Emerging Lessons," Business Standard, Nov.19, 2010.]

“Some Big Ideas from Small Countries,”  European Financial Review, April-May, 2011, pp. 4-5.       copyright: European Financial Financial Review

"South Africa: Macroeconomic Challenges after a Decade of Success" , with B.Smit & F.Sturzenegger,  Economics of  Transition 16, no. 4, pp. 639-77, Oct. 2008.      Other Frankel papers/presentations on South Africa.

Jeffrey Frankel and Amartya Sen debate in the Forum "Is the Language of Rights Useful in the Fight Against Poverty?"

"Slow Passthrough Around the World: A New Import for Developing Countries?" with David Parsley and Shang-Jin Wei, forthcoming, Open Economies Review, 2011.  NBER WP 11199.  KSG RWP05-016  

Comments on Bosworth and Collins, “The Empirics of Growth: An Update” Brookings Panel on Economic Activity 2, 2003, pp. 189-99.

"Promoting Better National Institutions: The Role of the IMF,"  IMF Staff Papers, 50, 2003. RWP03-010.   [Video of the 4 speakers: Guillermo Ortiz, Jeffrey Sachs, Frankel, and Nancy Birdsall.]

On Emerging Markets     

NEW  “Are Leading Indicators Useful for Assessing Country Vulnerability?  Evidence from the 2008-09 Global Financial Crisis,” 2011, with George Saravelos.  Forthcoming, Journal of International Economics.  HKS RWP 11-024;  Summary in HKS Impact, Autumn 2011.   NBER WP 16047.  Summary, VoxEU. [TV interview]

"Will Emerging Markets Fall in 2012?" Project Syndicate Jan.20, 2012; including Bangkok Post, Jan.26.
“Coping with Asia’s Large Capital Inflows in a Multi-speed Global Economy,” slides, IMF / Bank of Indonesia conference, Bali, March 11, 2011.    Without appendices. 
"Currency Wars" slides, MAS Sponsored Public Lecture, Singapore, March 2011.  Without appendices.   Appendices.
“Emerging Market Countries in the Global Financial Crisis,” slides, Insights in Development Thinking, with COMFAMA, May 20, 2010. 
"The Global Financial Crisis," slides, Cutting Edge of Development Thinking , CID, Harvard, May 12, 2010.

"Monetary Policy in Emerging Markets: A Survey,” published in Handbook of Monetary Economics, edited by Benjamin.Friedman & Michael Woodford (North Holland), 2011.   HKS RWP 11-003; press release. CID WP No. 215.   NBER WP No.16125. Presented at the ECB, Oct.2009;  Slides.   

"The Forward Market in Emerging Currencies: Less Biased than in Major Currencies," with Jumana Poonawala. Proofs. Published in Journal of International Money and Finance, April 2010, 29, no.3, 585-98. Abstract. With appendices: HKS RWP09-023.   NBER WP 12496. 

"Carried Away: Everything You Wanted to Know About the Carry Trade,"  Milken Institute Review, 1st Quarter, 2008. Revised from: “Getting Carried Away:  How the Carry Trade and Its Potential Unwinding Can Explain Movements in International Financial Markets,” with footnotes & references, Nov.2007.

"Fiscal and Monetary Policy in a Commodity Based Economy," with B.Smit & F.Sturzenegger,  Economics of  Transition 16, no.4, 2008, 679-713 (Blackwell).   South Africa Growth Initiative,  Center for International Development.   

"Does Openness to Trade Make Countries Less Vulnerable to Sudden Stops? Using Gravity to Establish Causality," with Eduardo Cavallo, Journal of International Money and Finance 27, no.8, Dec.2008, 1430-52.  KSG RWP 04-038.  NBER WP No.10957.  

On Exchange Rate Regimes            

“Choosing an Exchange Rate Regime,” 2011; forthcoming, The Handbook of Exchange Rates, edited by Jessica James, Ian W. Marsh and Lucio Sarno (John Wiley).

“Estimation of De Facto Flexibility Parameter and Basket Weights in Evolving Exchange Rate Regimes” with Daniel Xie, proofs;  in American Economic Review, 100, no. 2, May 2010.   Presented at De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, June 2010.   Atlanta, Presentation, Jan. 2010.    HKS RWP 10-005.   NBER WP No. 15620.   Peterson Institute for International Economics WP 10-1. 

"Currency Wars," MAS Sponsored Public Lecture, Singapore, March 8, 2011. Slides:  Without appendices.   Appendices.         "Currency Wars," Macquarie Securities, Dec.8, 2010.       "What's Hot and What's Not in Global Money" State Street Institute, Oct. 2010
"What’s 'In' and What’s 'Out' in Global Money,"  in Finance and Development, 46, no.3, September 2009, 13-17.    Abridged, from “On Global Currencies,” speech for Exchange Rates: The Global Perspective,  ECB, June 2009.   RWP09-026.  

"Exchange Rate Regimes: Current Issues in Research & Policy," Lecture slides & Appendices, IMF Institute, April 2011.   Lecture slides & Appendices, May 2010.  2009.    2007.

"Estimation of De Facto Exchange Rate Regimes:  Synthesis of The Techniques for Inferring Flexibility and Basket Weights,"  Condensed for publication, May 2008;  IMF Staff Papers 2008, vol.55.   Replication files.    slides.   Complete version with all appendix tables: NBER WP No. 14016, May 2008, March 2008.    Or, with selection of appendix tables: HKS RWP08-026, May 2008.   Replication files.      Slides incl. update of China and other weekly-frequency estimates, ASSA meetings, San Francisco, Jan. 2009.   Slides, U.Mass.Amherst, May 2009.
         For China                               

NEW  “Historical precedents for the internationalization of the RMB,” October 2011.  Written for a workshop in Beijing of the Council on Foreign Relations & the China Development Research Foundation, Nov.1.  
Summary: "Internationalization of the Renminbi: What Does History Tell us About the Precedents?" Oct.5. Versions at RIETI & Vox, Oct.10, 2011. 
"The RMB as an International Currency," slides, Club de CEPII, Paris, 12 Jan., 2011.   [“China Stumbles in Yuan Grand Plan,” WSJ, July 15, 2011.]

"China-US Currency Issues," CFL, January17, 2011.  

"The Renminbi Since 2005,"  in The US-Sino Currency Dispute: New Insights from Economics, Politics and Law, edited by Simon Evenett (Centre for Economic Policy Research: London) 2010, 51-60.

"China-US Currency Issues," CLD, Ash Center, June 8, 2010.    "The Renminbi-Dollar Issue," slides, Spring Exercise, HKS, April 23, 2010.

Blogpost: The RMB Has Now Moved Back to the Dollar --  Tables.       ["China Resumes Dollar Pegging On The Sly," Forbes.com, March 2009.]

“New Estimation of China’s Exchange Rate Regime,”  in Pacific Economic Review 14, no.3, August 2009 (Wiley InterScience, Blackwell Publ.), pp. 346-360.     Final draft, June 2009; proofs.    NBER WP no. 14700.   Data.
"New Estimation of the RMB Regime" (incl. appendix tables) in China’s Emerging Financial Markets: Challenges and Opportunities, J.Tatom, G.Yago, and J. Barth, eds. (Springer).    RWP08-077, Harvard University.    

“Comment on ‘China’s Current Account and Exchange Rate,’ by Yin-Wong Cheung, Menzie Chinn and Eiji Fuji,” in China’s Growing Role in World Trade,   NBER, edited by Rob Feenstra and Shang-Jin Wei (University of Chicago Press, 2010).

"The RMB: China's Exchange Rate Policy," Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations," April 4, 2008.  slides.

“Comments on Cline and Williamson’s ‘Estimates of the Equilibrium Exchange Rate of the Renminbi?’,”   in Debating China's Exchange Rate Policy, edited by M. Goldstein and N. Lardy  Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington DC), 2008, 155-165.   From 2007 conference.

"Assessing China's Exchange Rate Regime," (with Shang-Jin Wei),  Economic Policy 51, July 2007, pp. 575-614.  Panel meeting, Feb. 2007.  Video interview.   Vox summary.   Earlier working paper versions contain more extensive tables: CEPR DP No. 6264, April 2007, and NBER WP 13100, May 2007.    Zipped programs and datasets.

“The Balassa-Samuelson Relationship and the Renminbi,” KSG, Dec. 2006.   [Cited in "Push to tap into EM currency returns," Financial Times, Feb.27, 2011.]

"On the Yuan: The Choice Between Adjustment Under a Fixed Exchange Rate and Adjustment under a Flexible Rate,"  in Understanding the Chinese Economy, edited by Gerhard Illing.(Oxford University Press), 2006.  (With abstract), CESifo Economic Studies, Munich.  RWP04-037.   NBER WP 11274.



“On the Renminbi,”  CESifo Forum, vol 6, no.3, Autumn 2005, pp.16-21 (Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich).

[China's Announcement of de-linking from RMB to the $ -- Segment on On Point radio show July 21, 2005]

        Exchange Rates For Other Emerging Markets     

CID  projects, Harvard University:      
        CID South Africa Growth Initiative, including recent working papers and news. 
         Project on South Africa: Performance and Prospects,  Center for International Development : 
      "On the Rand: Determinants of the South African Exchange Rate,"   South African Journal of Economics, 75, no.3, September 2007.
      Other Frankel papers/presentations on South Africa.               ["Dutch Disease Returns to South Africa," Business Day, Oct.5, 2009.]
             


          "On the Tenge: Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy for Kazakhstan" Consultancy for government of Kazakhstan, CID, Apr.11, 2005.  Russian translation, ADB, 2009.

"Experience of and Lessons from Exchange Rate Regimes in Emerging Economies,"    in Monetary and Financial Integration in East Asia: The Way Ahead, edited by Asian Development Bank, 2004 (Palgrave Macmillan Press, NY), vol.2,  91-138.  Also RWP03-011; and NBER WP no.10032 .

"Global Transmission of Interest Rates: Monetary Independence and Currency Regimes," with Sergio L. Schmukler and Luis Servén,  NBER WP no. 8828.  Journal of International Money and Finance, 23, no. 5, Sept. 2004, 701-34.
[After Argentina: "No Right Answer?"  The Economist Global Agenda, January 21, 2002.]
"Verifiability and the Vanishing Intermediate Exchange Rate Regime,"  with Sergio Schmukler and Luis Servén;  Brookings Trade Forum 2000, edited by S.Collins and D.Rodrik (Brookings Institution, Washington DC).

"No Single Currency Regime is Right for All Countries or at All Times," Graham Lecture, Princeton University.   Essays in International Finance No. 215, Princeton University Press.   NBER WP No.7338, 1999.
        The Euro and other Currency Unions  

NEW  "Over-optimism in Forecasts by Official Budget Agencies and Its Implications," June 2011. Forthcoming, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2011.  NBER WP 17239.  Summary in NBER Digest, Nov.2011.   ["Should governments be more pessimistic?" Washington Post wonkblog, 10/27/2011.  "Decade of Stimulus" Bloomberg, Aug.4.]


NEW "The Euro Crisis and Greece: 5 Mistakes," slides, Dec.2, MIT;  Harvard, Dec.6, 2011.   "The Greek Debt Crisis: The ECB's 3 Big Mistakes," Vox, May 16, 2011;  Part I & Part II.    Also May 21 at Emerging Markets.   ["If only the EU had listened to Strauss-Kahn’s rescue plan," Globe & Mail, Toronto, May 18.]

 “Optimal Currency Areas & Governance", slides session on the Challenge of Europe at the Annual Conference of George Soros’ INET, April 10, 2011; video available, including my presentation. ["Troubles in Euro Zone Offer Chance to Fix Its Flaws,"  WSJ June 6  ]
"Let Greece Go to the IMF," February 11, 2010.

“The Estimated Effects of the Euro on Trade:  Why are They Below Historical Evidence on Effects of Monetary Unions Among Smaller Countries?” in Europe and the Euro, edited by Alberto Alesina & Francesco Giavazzi (University of Chicago Press), 2010.    WCFIA WP 2009-008;   Dataset.   NBER WP 14542. RWP08-076, HKS.   Slides, NBER conference, 2008.   Slides, ASSA meetings, San Francisco, 2009.

"Comments on 'The euro: It can’t happen, It’s a bad idea, It won’t last. U.S. economists on the EMU, 1989-2002,' by Lars Jonung & Eoin Drea,"  slides. Euro at 10: Reflections on American Views, ASSA meetings, San Francisco, Jan.2009.

“Should Eastern European Countries Join the Euro? A Review & Update of Trade Estimates and Consideration of Endogenous OCA Criteria,” for Dubrovnik Economic Conference XIV, hosted by Central Bank of Croatia.  RWP08-059, Harvard Univ. 

“Should Central European Countries Join the Euro? A Review and Update of Trade Estimates and Consideration of Endogenous OCA Criteria,” for  Report on Poland's Full Membership in the 3rd Stage of the Economic and Monetary Union, Oct.2008, National Bank of Poland, Warsaw.  
    
Press coverage: 
["No Wonder They're Falling Out of Love With the Euro,”  Wall Street Journal, Nov.25, 2011.] 
["Emu's second 10 years may be tougher than its first," Martin Wolf,  Financial Times, May 28, 2008 p. 9.]
[ "Dollar chilled by rise of euro," The Guardian Weekly, 4/4/08, p. 43.]
["This crisis could bring the euro centre-stage," Wolfgang Münchau,  Financial Times,  March 23 2008.]

 "The Euro Could Surpass the Dollar Within 10 Years,"  Vox, March 18, 2008.        HKS video.

 “Why the Euro Will Rival the Dollar,” with Menzie Chinn, International Finance (Blackwill Publishers), 11, no.1, 49-73.  Revised from “The Euro May Over the Next 15 Years Surpass the Dollar as Leading International Currency." Page proofs.  RWP08-016  and  NBER WP 13909, .

"Will the Euro Eventually Surpass the Dollar as Leading International Reserve Currency?" with Menzie Chinn.   In G7 Current Account Imbalances: Sustainability and Adjustment, edited by Richard Clarida (Univ.of Chicago Press, 2007).     
NBER conference, Newport, RI, June 1-2, 2005,  NBER WP 11510.    At AEI Sept.2005 .   
At Conference on Global Imbalances & Asian Financial Markets, UC Berkeley, Sept. 2005 [slides].  
Chinese translation forthcoming, International Finance, Taipei. 

Press coverage: 
[Interview on "International Currency Rankings," including video excerpt, Kennedy School Insight, May 2006.]

["Currency competition: How the dollar might lose its status as the world's main reserve currency,"   Economist, Sept. 29, 2005.]

["Euro may become top reserve currency by 2022 -- study,"  Reuters, Aug. 5, 2005.]

My comments on "The Euro's Trade Effects,"  March 2006, by Richard Baldwin . ECB WP 594, 2006.  For What Effects is EMU Having on the Euro Area and its Member Countries?  European Central Bank, Frankfurt, June 2005. 

Comments on: "The Euro, Stabilization Policy, and the Stability and Growth Pact or Can Rubinomics work in the Eurozone?" by Adam S. Posen.  In The Euro at Five: Ready for a Global Role? edited by Adam Posen, 2005; pp. 157-169.   Conference at the Institute for International Economics.

"Real Convergence and Euro Adoption in Central and Eastern Europe: Trade and Business Cycle Correlations as Endogenous Criteria for Joining EMU,"  in Euro Adoption in the Accession Countries – Opportunities and Challenges,  edited by Susan Schadler (IMF: Washington DC), 2005.   RWP04-039 .

"The Euro Area and World Interest Rates" with Menzie Chinn.  NY Fed conference on "Financial Globalization", 2004.   Summary in conference proceedings, Centre for Economic Policy Research, London.

"The UK Decision re EMU: Implications of Currency Blocs for Trade and Business Cycle Correlations," in Submissions on EMU from Leading Academics (H.M. Treasury: London), 2003, p.99-109. 

“Currency Blocs and Market Integration: Implications for Trade and Business Cycle Correlations,” A background report for the Commission on The UK Outside the Euro, October 30, 2002. 

"Comments on ‘Full Dollarization: The Case of Panama’ by Goldfajn and Olivares," LACEA, Rio de Janeiro, 2000; Economia Spring 2001, vol.1, no.2.

"An Estimate of the Effect of Common Currencies on Trade and Income," with Andrew Rose. Quarterly Journal of Economics. May 2002. SUMMARY published in Currency Unions, edited by Alberto Alesina and Robert Barro, Hoover Institution Press, Stanford, CA, 2001.  [Our data, some relevant op-ed and newspaper coverage, and a response to a comment by Dani Rodrik, are available at Andy Rose's website.] 
The Frankel-Romer-Rose gravity-based instrumental variable for trade openness, as updated in Frankel-Rose, 2002

"On the Euro: An American Perspective," for EMU Watch Series, DB Research, Frankfurt, June 21, 2000. 

   Proposals for Product Price Targeting (PPT) & Peg the Export Price (PEP)     

NEW  “A Comparison of Product Price Targeting and Other Monetary Anchor Options, for Commodity-Exporters in Latin America," forthcoming, Economia, vol.11 (Brookings Institution), 2011.  CID WP 225, Nov.2011.   NBER WP 16362, Sept.2010. 

"UAE & Other Gulf Countries Urged to Switch Currency Peg from the Dollar to a Basket That Includes Oil,"  Vox, , 9 July 2008.

“Peg the Export Price Index: A Proposed Monetary Regime for Small Countries,”   Journal of Policy Modeling vol.27, no.4, June 2005.  KSG  RWP03-003, Harvard University.

Iraq’s Currency Solution? Tie the Dinar to Oil," The International Economy, Fall 2003.

A Proposal to Tie Iraq’s Currency to Oil published as "A Crude Peg for the Iraqi Dinar," Financial Times, June 13, 2003.  

"A Proposed Monetary Regime for Small Commodity-Exporters: Peg the Export Price (‘PEP’)," (w. appendix) Yale, Apr.2003.  International Finance (Blackwill Publishers), vol.6, no.1, Spring 2003, 61-88.

"A Proposal to Anchor Monetary Policy by the Price of the Export Commodity,"  with Ayako Saiki, J. of Econ. Integration, Sept. 2002, vol.17, no.3, 417-48. 

"Should Gold-Exporters Peg Their Currencies to Gold?",  Research Study No. 29,  World Gold Council,  London, UK, 2002.      Tables and Charts

On Global Environmental Issues          
 

     Climate Change Policy: The Kyoto Protocol and Design of a Possible Successor     

NEW  "Sustainable Cooperation in Global Climate Policy: Specific Formulas and Emission Targets to Build on Copenhagen and Cancun," with Valentina Bosetti, 2011. NBER WP 17669, Dec.2012.  HPICA  Discussion Paper No.46; and FEEM Working Paper 66, Sept.2011.   Background study for  Human Development Report 2011: Sustaining Equitable Progress, UNDP.  3rd draft, Apr.2011; appendices.

"After the Cancun Agreements: What is the Politically Feasible Path to Comprehensive Targets for Greenhouse Gas Emissions?" slides,  Boston College, March 28, 2011.  Without appendices.    "After Copenhagen & Cancun" slides, The Birger Lecture, Tufts University, March 16, 2011.

"The Copenhagen Accord: 2020 Emission Goals Submitted by 14 Countries," blog, March 16, 2010. "After Copenhagen: What is the Politically Feasible Path to Comprehensive Targets for Greenhouse Gas Emissions?" seminar, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, March 11, 2010. "After Copenhagen," short presentation at Harvard University Center for the Environment, March 2, 2010. "Copenhagen and Key Next Steps,"  Roundtable hosted by HPICA, Copenhagen, Denmark, Dec. 15, 2009.      "How to Solve the Copenhagen Impasse," Nov. 18, 2009. "Targets, Timetables and Trade: How to achieve a successful Copenhagen," East Asia Forum Quarterly, vol. I, no. 3, Oct.-Dec. 2009, pages 11-13. "A Post-Kyoto International Global Climate Agreement Proposal," Harvard Environmental Economics Program’s International Advisory Board meeting, Nov. 13, 2009.  Full slides.  Synopsis. "Last Exit Copenhagen? " Climate Governance Workshop, The Goethe-Institut Boston & Center for European Studies, Oct. 20, 2009.    "A Pragmatic Global Climate Policy Architecture," (with V. Bosetti), Weekly Policy Commentary, Oct. 12, 2009;  reprinted in Issues of the Day: 100 Commentaries on Climate, Energy, the Environment, Transportation, and Public Health Policy, edited by Ian Parry and Felicia Day  (Resources for the Future: Washington DC), 2010, p. 4-5. "Targets, Timetables and Trade," or "The Politically Possible: How to Achieve  Success in Copenhagen" op-ed for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, October 2009. "Politically Feasible Emission Target Formulas to Attain 460 ppm CO2 Concentrations," with Valentina Bosetti; Review of Environmental Economics and Policy (Oxford University Press) Winter 2011-12;  HKS RWP 11-016, Feb.2011. Condensed from   "Global Climate Policy Architecture and Political Feasibility:  Specific Formulas and Emission Targets to Attain 460PPM CO2 Concentrations" 2009.   FEEM Working Paper, Nov. 30.   NBER WP no. 15516, Nov. 2009.    HPICA Disc.Paper 09-30. "An Elaborated Proposal for Global Climate Policy Architecture: Specific Formulas and Emission Targets for All Countries in All Decades,”  in Post-Kyoto International Climate Policy, edited by Joe Aldy and Rob Stavins, Chapter 2, pp.31-87 (Cambridge University Press), 2009.   WP 08-08, for the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements.    NBER WP 14876 , includes 450 ppm case.       Slides, Apr.15, 2009, BCSIA, HKS.  Slides, RFF, April 23, 2009.   Policy summary.   "How to set greenhouse gas emission targets for all countries," Vox, July 18, 2009.    1-page blogpost July 21, 2009.    ["US academics call for GHG emission targets for all countries," LowCarbonEconomy, July 22, 2009.]

“Possible Impacts of Global Climate Change Policy on Mexico and other Developing Countries in Coming Years,” memo to Mexican President Felipe Calderón, Jan.2009.  Chapter 2.2 of The Mexico Competitiveness Report 2009, released in June at a workshop in Mexico City.

 “How to Make Climate Change Research Relevant to Washington policymakers,” Workshop on Climate Change Impacts and Integrated Assessment, Energy Modeling Forum, Snowmass, Colorado, July 31-Aug 1, 2008, slides.

“Next Steps After the Kyoto Protocol:   Formulas for Quantitative Emission Targets (summary),” Vox , June 2007.

1-page comment on Martin Wolf's column "In spite of sceptics, it is worth reducing climate change."  For FT Forum, FT.com, Feb. 7, 2007.

1-page comment on “Curbs on emissions will take a change of political climate.”   For FT Forum, FT.com, Nov. 8, 2006.

“Formulas for Quantitative Emission Targets,” Chapter 2 in   Architectures for Agreement: Addressing Global Climate Change in the Post Kyoto World, Joe Aldy and Rob Stavins, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2007, p. 32-56.     KSG RWP07-011, Feb. 2007.    [Press release, March 2007: "After Kyoto, Then What?" Kennedy School professor outlines plan to confront challenges posed by greenhouse gas emissions.]        Summary slides version, for New Directions in Regulatory Policy, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government Oct. 24, 2007.

Comments on Barrett, Nordhaus, Pizer, & Stavins, Kyoto and Beyond: Alternative Approaches to Global Warming, AEA meetings, Jan 6, 2006,  Boston.

"Designing a Regime of Emission Commitments for Developing Countries that is Cost-Effective and Equitable" (with Joseph Aldy), written for G20 Leaders and Climate Change, Council on Foreign Relations, Sept. 20-21, 2004.

"The Impact of a Revised Kyoto Protocol on Developing Countries," August 2004, written for Business and Economy, India.

"You're Getting Warmer:  The Most Feasible Path for Addressing Global Climate Change Does Run Through Kyoto," Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Milan, 2001.  In Trade and Environment: Theory and Policy in the Context of EU Enlargement and Transition Economies, edited by John Maxwell and Rafael Reuveny (Edward Elgar Publishers, Ltd., UK), 2005; pp. 37-55.

"The Economics of the Kyoto Protocol and Global Climate Change Policy," Kennedy School Forum, March 15, 2000.

"Greenhouse Gas Emissions," Policy Brief no. 52, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, June 1999.

     Trade and the Environment   

“Trade, Growth, and the Environment,” slides for guest lecture, April 2010,  R.Stavins’ class in Environmental & Resource Economics and Policy, 2008 . “Trade, Growth, & the Environment,” Graduate Consortium on Energy and Environment, March 26, 2010. "Trade and the Environment," slides, Thinking Ahead on International Trade, Geneva, June 2009. "The Global Climate Regime & the Global Trade Regime," slides;  for Regulatory Policy Program  Seminar, March 2008. Harvard Univ.  [HKS News.] “Environmental Effects of International Trade,” A Report for the Swedish Globalisation Council, Government of Sweden;  presented Jan. 2009, Stockholm.  Proofs .    RWP 09-006, Harvard KS, 2009.     "Global Environment and Trade Policy," March 2009,  for the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements.    Proofs;  in Post-Kyoto International Climate Policy, edited by Joe Aldy and Rob Stavins (Cambridge University Press, 2009);    Revised version of “Global Environmental Policy and Global Trade Policy,”   RWP08-058.  HPICA paper no.08-14.   Policy summary.           “Addressing the Leakage/Competitiveness Issue In Climate Change Policy Proposals,” Proofs  in Climate Change, Trade and Investment: Is a Collision Inevitable?  (Brookings Institution Press: Washington, DC), 2009, edited by Lael Brainard and Isaac Sorkin, p. 69-91.    2008 conference, Brookings.   WCFIA WP 4792, April 2009. "Climate and Trade: Links Between the Kyoto Protocol and WTO,"  in Environment, vol. 47, no. 7, September 2005: 8-19.  Revised from  "Kyoto and Geneva: Linkage of the Climate Change Regime and the Trade Regime" a speech for Broadening Climate Discussion, FEEM/MIT conference, Venice, 2004.    RWP04-042.  Press coverage:  "U.S. tariffs would chill climate pact and trade," Reuters, Nov. 24, 2009 "International Trade and the Environment: Ever the Twain Shall Meet?" Impact, HKS, Spring 2009 "Trade Offs: When Climate Policy Clashes With Trade  Polilcy," Wall Street Journal, Jan.30, 2009. “Study: Kyoto Protocol, Free Trade Compatible -- Harvard professor reconciles free trade and ecological responsibility,”  Harvard Crimson, Nov. 5, 2008. "Kyoto Protocol and World Trade Organization on a “collision course.”  HKS news,  Nov.3, 2008.

"Is Trade Good or Bad for the Environment?  Sorting out the Causality" with Andrew Rose, Review of Economics and Statistics, 87, no. 1, 2005.  NBER WP 9201  NBER digest. Condensed version, RWP03-038.   [Data available (in Stata).]

"The Environment and Globalization" in Globalization: What's New edited by Michael Weinstein, Council on Foreign Relations (Columbia University Press: NY), 2005, pp.129-169.   NBER WP 10090.  At Neemrana, India, 2003.  Reprinted in Economics of the Environment: Selected Readings, Fifth Edition, edited by R.Stavins (W.W.Norton: NY), 2005.

     Energy and the Environment

NEW  "Real Energy Security: Drill, Baby, Drill—But Not Now,"  Dec.3, 2010, Weekly Policy Commentary, Resources for the Future.  "Gulfs in Our Energy Security, and the Louisiana Blowout," blog, May 23,2010

"Energy and the Environment: Policy Advice for the New Administration:   The Matrix";  AEA/AERE meetings, San Francisco, Jan. 2009.

"Achieving Environmental Goals at Minimum Economic Cost," Edison Electric Institute Advisory Panel on Fuel Diversity, EEI Chief Executives Conference, Palm Springs, 2000.

On Globalization and Trade        

"The World Trading System and Implications of External Opening"; written for a panel of Fundacio CIDOB forum, Barcelona, Spain, Sept.24-25, 2004.  In The Washington Consensus Reconsidered: Towards a New Global Governance, edited by Narcis Serra and Joseph Stiglitz (Oxford University Press), 2008.  CFIA Disc Paper 04-07.

"The Flubbed Opportunity for the US to Exercise Global Economic Leadership"; The International Economy, XVIII, no. 2, Spring 2004.

"A Review of The Wind of the Hundred Days: How Washington Mismanaged Globalization by Jagdish Bhagwati," Foreign Affairs, March/April, 2001.

"Assessing the Efficiency Gains from Further Liberalization," in Efficiency, Equity and Legitimacy: The Multilateral Trading System at the Millennium, in honor of Raymond Vernon. Edited by R.Porter, P.Sauve, A.Subramanian, and A.Zampetti ( Brookings Institution Press, Washington, D.C.) 2001.  [Cited in Washington Post Editorial.]

"Globalization: Why and How It Should Continue," MacArthur Transnational Economic Security Workshop, MIT, 2000.

"Globalization of the Economy," in Governance in a Globalizing World, edited by Joseph Nye and John Donahue (Brookings Institution Press, Washington, D.C.), 2000.    Reprinted in International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues, Robert Art and Robert Jervis, eds., Longman, 7^th ed. 2005 - 9th ed. 2009.   And in International Political Economy, edited by Jeffry Frieden, David Lake and J. Lawrence Broz: (Norton: NY, 5th edition), 2009.    NBER WP 7858.   {Application of the "Frankel Index," by Rolf Langhammer, "Does International Trade Catch Up..." 2011.}

The Frankel-Romer-Rose gravity-based instrumental variable for trade openness, as updated in Frankel-Rose, 2002

On the US, Asia, and the Global Monetary System     

[ Press coverage:  “Nations Act to Put Brakes on Yen's Rise ,” Wall Street Journal, March 18, 2011.  “How To Help Japan: Sell Your Yen”  NPR, March 18.     "Japan's Effect on Recovery A Worry," Boston Globe, March 16, 2011.]

"G20 Guidelines for Persistently Large Imbalances," slides, Experts Panel, G20 Working Group on the Framework for Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth, Paris, 13 January, 2011.

"The RMB as an International Currency," Slides, Club de CEPII, Paris, 12 January, 2011.  [NEW  “It’s a Long Haul to the Top  The yuan as No. 1? History offers a cautionary note,”  WSJ,  June 2, 2011]

"G20: Leadership Need Not Come Only from the G7," Oct.28, 2010, East Asia Forum Quarterly.  [NEW Post-summit interview on G-20, Korea & Reserves, TBS-eFM radio, Seoul, May 2011.]

["Currency Wars and China," Al Jazeera broadcast, October 15, 2010.]

"Asia, the US, and the G20 in 2010," presentation, Harvard Project for Asian & International Relations,  Feb. 19, 2010, conference.

"China, the US, and Currency Issues," presentation, Chinese Future Leaders, Harvard, Jan. 29, 2010. 

"After  the Global Financial Crisis: Korea, the US, and the G-20", presentation, 25th anniversary of the Korea-America Economic Association, Atlanta, January 4, 2010.  [Interview, (in Korean) Maeil Newspaper, Jan. 2010]

“On Global Currencies,” keynote speech for workshop sponsored by the Bank of Canada and the European Central Bank, Frankfurt, June 2009.  Powerpoint.     [Condensed and translated into Chinese, for  International Herald Leader, Xinhua, Beijing, July 30, 2009.]
“The United States, China, and the Policy Choices,”  presentation. Conference on the Global Economy in Balance,  U. Wisconsin, Madison, May 2008.

Press coverage: 
["Have Financial Developments Made the International Monetary Fund Obsolete?" for The International Economy, March 1, 2007]

[“Can China Achieve a Soft Landing?” Sept.18, 2006, For The International Economy, Fall issue.]

[Interview on "International Currency Rankings," including video excerpt, Kennedy School Insight, May 2006.]

["Outlook for the US Dollar" (in Korean), interview in Maeil Kyongje, Jan. 10, 2006.]

"Push the Euro Up and the Yen Down".  Osaka, April 17, 2002.       

["To What Extent is the US Following in Japan’s Footsteps?" Forum, The International Economy,  2000.    Repeated, 2009, in answer to "Is America head for a 1990s Japan-style lost decade of stagnant growth?"]

Comments on N. Yoshino and E. Sakakibara's "The Current State of the Japanese Economy and Remedies,"  Asian Economic Papers, vol.1, no.2, 2002.

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