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Professor Jeffrey Frankel
James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth, Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University
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Prof. Jeffrey Frankel
James W. Harpel Professor of Capital
Formation and Growth
Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
Tel: +1 617 4963834
Fax: +1 617 4965747
E-mail: Jeffrey_frankel@harvard.edu
Url: http://www.tesoro.it/
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Jeffrey Frankel occupies the James W. Harpel Chair for Capital Formation
and Growth at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He
is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research,
where he is director of the program in International Finance and Macroeconomics
and a member of the Business Cycle Dating Committee, which officially
declared the 2001 recession.
Professor Frankel was appointed to the Council of Economic Advisers
by President Clinton in 1996, and subsequently confirmed by the Senate.
His responsibilities as Member included international economics, macroeconomics,
and the environment. He left the White House for Harvard in 1999.
Before moving East, Jeff Frankel was Professor of Economics at the
University of California, Berkeley, having joined the faculty in 1979.
He has spent time at the Brookings Institution, Institute for International
Economics, International Monetary Fund, Federal Reserve Board, University
of Michigan, Yale University, and World Bank, among other places.
Professor Frankel's research interests include globalization, international
finance, monetary policy, regional blocs, Asia, and international environmental
issues. He has written, co-authored, or edited 13 books, including in
2002 the textbook World Trade and Payments and American Economic Policy
in the 1990s (MIT Press). His most recent articles is "Is Trade
Good or Bad for the Environment? Sorting Out the Causality," Rev.Econ.Stats.,
2004.
He was born in San Francisco in 1952, graduated from Swarthmore College
in 1974, and received his Ph.D. from M.I.T. in 1978.
