Jeffrey Frankel

Jeffrey Alexander "Jeff" Frankel (born November 5, 1952 in San Francisco, California) is the James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. A member of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton, Frankel is a noted international macroeconomist. Frankel's contributions include showing econometrically that openness is good for economic growth, by means of a gravity model of trade (with David Romer).

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.

References

• American Economic Policy in the 1990s, Jeffrey Frankel and Peter Orszag, The MIT Press, 2002. ISBN 0-262-06230-5
• World Trade and Payments: An Introduction, Richard Caves, Jeffrey Frankel and Ronald W. Jones, Addison Wesley Longman; 8th edition, 1999. ISBN 0-321-03142-3
• Regional Trading Blocs in the World Economic System, Jeffrey Frankel, Ernesto Stein and Shang-Jin Wei, Institute for International Economics, 1997. ISBN 0-88132-202-4
• Does Foreign Exchange Intervention Work?, Kathryn Mary Dominguez and Jeffrey Frankel, Institute for International Economics, 1993. ISBN 0-88132-104-4
• Frankel, Jeffrey A. (2008). "Foreign Exchange". In David R. Henderson (ed.). Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (2nd ed.). Indianapolis: Library of Economics and Liberty. ISBN 978-0865976658. OCLC 237794267.

External links

• Jeffrey Frankel's Home Page
• List of publications