{{short description|American economist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} {{BLP sources|date=March 2011}} '''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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/jeffrey-frankel |title=Harvard Kennedy School - Jeffrey Frankel |access-date=2017-04-09 |archive-date=2017-07-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170703140824/https://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/jeffrey-frankel |url-status=dead }}</ref>

== Education == Frankel graduated from Swarthmore College in 1974 with a B.A. in economics. He then received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1978.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/frankel/files/cvjefffrankel2017dec.pdf|title=CURRICULUM VITAE Jeffrey A. Frankel|date=2017|website=harvard.edu}}</ref>

==Career== Frankel began his career as an assistant professor at the University of Michigan (1978–1979).<ref name=":0" />

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.<ref name=":0" /> He eventually joined Harvard in 1999.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/frankel/home|title=Jeffrey Frankel|website=scholar.harvard.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-01-02}}</ref>

Frankel was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://psmag.com/trump-vs-clinton-hillarys-murky-history-on-the-trans-pacific-partnership-f544d8251758 |title=Archived copy |access-date=April 9, 2017 |archive-date=August 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200815043904/https://psmag.com/trump-vs-clinton-hillarys-murky-history-on-the-trans-pacific-partnership-f544d8251758/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> 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|date=April 2017}}

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|date=April 2017}}

==Opinions== According to ''The Market Oracle'' Frankel says no new monetary policy, after inflation targeting, has been decided on for offering financial stability.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article58686.html|title = From Inflation to Imflation, Agflation and Munflation :: The Market Oracle ::}}</ref>

==Publications== Frankel has co-authored a number of books and has written for The Guardian.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2016/oct/25/lower-interest-rates-not-demon-populist-claims-inequality-government|title=Lower interest rates not the demon populists claim &#124; Jeffrey Frankel|website=TheGuardian.com|date=25 October 2016}}</ref>

* ''Does Foreign Exchange Intervention Work?'', with Kathryn Mary Dominguez, Institute for International Economics (1993) {{ISBN|0-88132-104-4}}<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://cup.columbia.edu/book/does-foreign-exchange-intervention-work/9780881321043|isbn = 9780881321043|title = Does Foreign Exchange Intervention Work?|date = September 1993|publisher = Peterson Institute for International Economics}}</ref> * ''Regional Trading Blocs in the World Economic System'', with Ernesto Stein and Shang-Jin Wei, Institute for International Economics, (1997) {{ISBN|0-88132-202-4}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://piie.com/bookstore/regional-trading-blocs-world-economic-system|title = Regional Trading Blocs in the World Economic System|date = 21 April 2016}}</ref> * ''World Trade and Payments: An Introduction'', with Richard Caves and Ronald W. Jones, Addison Wesley Longman; (8th edition, 1999) {{ISBN|0-321-03142-3}} * ''American Economic Policy in the 1990s'', with Peter Orszag, The MIT Press (2002) {{ISBN|0-262-06230-5}} * ''Foreign Exchange'', with David R. Henderson, Library of Economics and Liberty (2008) {{ISBN|978-0865976658}}

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== External links == * [http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~jfrankel/index.htm Jeffrey Frankel's Home Page] * [http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~jfrankel/jfpubsindex.htm List of publications]

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