Professor of Economics

Harvard University

Kennedy School of Government
79 J.F. Kennedy St., L217
Cambridge, MA

TEL: (617) 496-3834
FAX: (617) 496-5747
E-MAIL: jeffrey_frankel@harvard.edu

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• BUSINESS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS
  capital markets; exchange rates, currency markets; finance, financial services; general economics; international economics; international trade; international trade and finance; macroeconomics; monetary theory; savings rate; trade relations

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Director for International Finance and Macroeconomics, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1991-present; Member, President's Council of Economic Advisors, Executive Office of the President, 1997-99; Chief Economist, CEA 1996-97; Visiting Fellow, Institute for International Economics, 1990-92; Visiting Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1988-89; Acting Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, University of California-Berkeley, 1979-83, 1984-87, 1988-94; Senior Staff Economist, Council of Economic Advisors, Executive Office of the President, 1983-84; Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, 1978-79.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

Regionalism and Rivalry: Japan and the US in Pacific Asia (ed.) (University of Chicago Press, 1993); "The Yen/Dollar Agreement: Liberalizing Japanese Capital Markets," Policy Analyses In International Economics (Dec., 1984); "The Japanese Cost of Finance: A Survey," Financial Management (Spring, 1991); "The Structural Impediments Initiative: Japan Again Agrees to Make Its Economy More Efficient," The International Economy (Oct., 1990).