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Jeffrey Alexander "Jeff" Frankel (born November 5, 1952, in San Francisco, California) is an international macroeconomist. He works as the James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard Kennedy School.[1]

Education

Frankel graduated from Swarthmore College in 1974 with a B.A. in economics. He then received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1978.[2]

Career

Frankel began his career as an assistant professor at the University of Michigan (1978–1979).[2]

He then worked at UC Berkeley as an assistant professor (1979–1980), an associate professor (1980–1987) and a professor of economics (1987–1999). He also was a visiting professor at Yale in 1980.[2] He eventually joined Harvard in 1999.[3]

Frankel was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton,[4] Frankel's contributions include showing econometrically that openness is good for economic growth, by means of a gravity model of trade (with David Romer).[citation needed]

Frankel directs the Program in International Finance and Macroeconomics at the National Bureau of Economic Research and is also on the Business Cycle Dating Committee, which officially declares US recessions.[citation needed]

Opinions

According to The Market Oracle Frankel says no new monetary policy, after inflation targeting, has been decided on for offering financial stability.[5]

Publications

Frankel has co-authored a number of books and has written for The Guardian.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Harvard Kennedy School - Jeffrey Frankel". Archived from the original on 2017-07-03. Retrieved 2017-04-09.
  2. ^ a b c "CURRICULUM VITAE Jeffrey A. Frankel" (PDF). harvard.edu. 2017.
  3. ^ "Jeffrey Frankel". scholar.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
  4. ^ https://psmag.com/trump-vs-clinton-hillarys-murky-history-on-the-trans-pacific-partnership-f544d8251758[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ "From Inflation to Imflation, Agflation and Munflation :: The Market Oracle ::".
  6. ^ "Lower interest rates not the demon populists claim | Jeffrey Frankel". TheGuardian.com. 25 October 2016.
  7. ^ Does Foreign Exchange Intervention Work?. Peterson Institute for International Economics. September 1993. ISBN 9780881321043.
  8. ^ "Regional Trading Blocs in the World Economic System". 21 April 2016.

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