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Jeffrey Frankel

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Jeffrey Frankel is Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He directs the program in International Finance and Macroeconomics at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he is also a member of the Business Cycle Dating Committee, which officially declares recessions. Appointed to the Council of Economic Advisers by President Clinton in 1996 and subsequently confirmed by the Senate, he served until 1999. His responsibilities as Member included international economics, macroeconomics, and the environment. Before moving East, he had been professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, having joined the faculty in 1979. Other past appointments include the Federal Reserve Board, Institute for International Economics, International Monetary Fund, and Yale. His research interests include international finance, currencies, monetary and fiscal policy, commodity prices, regional blocs, and global environmental issues. He graduated from Swarthmore College and received his PhD from MIT.

Recent Articles by Jeffrey Frankel

Counting "Jobs Saved" by Obama Fiscal Stimulus
November 13th, 2009

Why Did Economists Get It So Wrong? Krugman is Right
September 9th, 2009

Top UK Regulator Supports Transactions Tax to Shrink Financial Sector
August 31st, 2009

Good News, Finally, In the "Hours Worked" Statistic
August 10th, 2009

Americans Save Their Tax Cuts => Federal Spending Gives More Bang-for-Buck Stimulus
August 4th, 2009

An Answer for the Roadblock to an International Climate Change Agreement
July 22nd, 2009

A Return to Saving
July 13th, 2009

The Labor Market is Still Down — “Master Your Statistics, So They Don’t Master You”
July 3rd, 2009

How to Set Greenhouse Gas Emission Targets for all Countries
June 29th, 2009

The Labor Market Has NOT Yet Signaled a Turning Point
June 9th, 2009

Telling China to Stop Buying Dollars Now Would Be Even More Foolish Than Before
June 3rd, 2009

Slipping Out of the Political Handcuffs on Energy Taxes
May 19th, 2009

Recession is Now Tied for Longest Since the Great Depression
April 30th, 2009

Why the G-20 Summit in London April 2 Mattered
April 7th, 2009

Reactions to Geithner’s Public-Private Investment Program
March 24th, 2009

The RMB Has Now Moved Back to the Dollar
March 12th, 2009

America to China - “Stop Buying Our Dollars! And Another Thing: Please Buy Our Dollars.”
March 10th, 2009

Fiscal Responsibility: Obama Puts Away the Childish Things He Found in the White House
February 25th, 2009

A New Depression? The Lessons of the 1930s
February 23rd, 2009

TIPS tips
February 22nd, 2009

Is $800 Billion Too Big or Too Small? Yes.
February 14th, 2009

Needed in Treasury Plan: Price-discovery, write-down, & taxpayer protection
February 11th, 2009

Stop Distorting Spending Priorities into Tax Cuts
February 6th, 2009

US Tax Policy Will Be in Intensive Care This Year
January 21st, 2009

Advice for the New Administration: Spend Green Today Tax Green in the Future
January 21st, 2009

The Euro at Ten Why Do Effects on Trade Among Members Fall Short of Historical Estimates in Smaller Monetary Unions?
December 29th, 2008

The Euro at Ten: Time to Assess
December 26th, 2008

The Tenth-Ranked Quotation of 2008?
December 18th, 2008

Origins of the Economic Crisis - In One Chart!
December 7th, 2008

NBER Eggheads Finally Proclaim Recession
December 1st, 2008

The Best, the Brightest, and the Least Arrogant
November 26th, 2008

Tim Geithner As Treasury Secretary: A Man Who Doesn’t Lose his Cool
November 24th, 2008

My Bet: Larry Summers will be Chosen Treasury Secretary
November 17th, 2008

A Few Tax Policy Suggestions for Our New President
November 5th, 2008

The Unwinding of the Carry Trade Has Finally Hit Currencies
October 31st, 2008

NOW Are We In A Recession?
October 30th, 2008

Restructuring the International Financial System: A New Bretton Woods?
October 25th, 2008

How to Make TARP Politically Acceptable: Add a Tax on Securities Transactions
October 2nd, 2008

The Revised Troubled Asset Relief Plan Should Have Passed
October 1st, 2008

An Emerging Consensus Against the Paulson Plan: Government Should Force Bank Capital Up, Not Just Socialize the Bad Loans
September 23rd, 2008

Supply-Side Economics Contradictions Live on in Washington
September 12th, 2008

Anti-Shirking Import Penalties in US Climate Change Bills Could Backfire
September 4th, 2008

Commercial Banks, River Banks, and Moral Hazard
August 18th, 2008

Commercial Banks, River Banks, and Moral Hazard
August 13th, 2008

Commodity Prices, Again: Are Speculators to Blame?
August 5th, 2008

Good International Exposure for Obama and McCain
July 21st, 2008

“No Atheists in Foxholes.” No Libertarians in Financial Crises
July 21st, 2008

Offshoring is a More Dubious Policy, When the Question is Oil Drilling
July 17th, 2008

UAE and Other Gulf Countries Urged to Switch Currency Peg from the Dollar to a Basket That Includes Oil
July 8th, 2008

Did GDP Fall Within the 1st Quarter or Not?
June 20th, 2008

Are Either Low Interest Rates or Speculation Raising Holdings of Oil and Other Minerals?
June 17th, 2008