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Jeffrey Frankel

Professor, Harvard Kennedy School
Verified email at hks.harvard.edu
Cited by 78175

Currency crashes in emerging markets: An empirical treatment

JA Frankel, AK Rose - Journal of international Economics, 1996 - Elsevier
We use a panel of annual data for over 100 developing countries from 1971 through 1992
to characterize currency crashes. We define a currency crash as a large change of the …

Does trade cause growth?

JA Frankel, D Romer - Global trade, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
Examining the correlation between trade and income cannot identify the direction of causation
between the two. Countries’ geographic characteristics, however, have important effects …

The natural resource curse: A survey of diagnoses and some prescriptions

JA Frankel - Commodity price volatility and inclusive growth in …, 2012 - books.google.com
Oil, minerals, and agricultural resources can bring great riches to those who possess them.
Yet countries that are abundantly endowed with such natural resources often encounter …

The endogenity of the optimum currency area criteria

JA Frankel, AK Rose - The economic journal, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
A country' suitability for entry into a currency union depends on a number of economic
conditions. These include, inter alia, the intensity of trade with other potential members of the …

[BOOK][B] Regional trading blocs in the world economic system

JA Frankel, E Stein, SJ Wei - 1997 - books.google.com
This book explores whether the world economy is breaking up into regional trading and
currency blocs centred on the European Community, Japan and the United States. Frankel uses …

No single currency regime is right for all countries or at all times

JA Frankel - 1999 - nber.org
This essay considers some prescriptions that are currently popular regarding exchange rate
regimes: a general movement toward floating, a general movement toward fixing, or a …

Is trade good or bad for the environment? Sorting out the causality

JA Frankel, AK Rose - Review of economics and statistics, 2005 - direct.mit.edu
We seek to contribute to the debate over globalization and the environment by asking: What
is the effect of trade on a country's environment, for a given level of GDP? We take specific …

[BOOK][B] The natural resource curse: a survey

JA Frankel - 2010 - degruyter.com
It is striking how often countries with oil or other natural resource wealth have failed to show
better economic per for mance than those without. This is the phenomenon known as the “…

Using survey data to test some standard propositions regarding exchange rate expectations

JA Frankel, KA Froot - 1985 - nber.org
Survey data provide a measure of exchange rate expectations that is superior to the
commonly-used forward exchange rate in the respect that it does notinclude a risk premium. We use …

A panel project on purchasing power parity: mean reversion within and between countries

JA Frankel, AK Rose - Journal of International Economics, 1996 - Elsevier
Previous time-series studies have shown evidence of mean-reversion in real exchange rates.
Deviations from purchasing power parity (PPP) appear to have half-lives of approximately …