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Professor Jeffrey Frankel
Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University

Monetary Influences on Commodity Prices

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World Trade    
and Payments: 
An Introduction




by Richard Caves,
Ronald Jones and
Jeffrey Frankel
   

10th edition 2007,
Addison Wesley Longman: Boston. 
International edition, 2006.            
  

9th edition, 2002, including video interview

 


Translations of
World Trade and Payments:
Chinese, 2005;     Polish, 2004;  
French, 2003; 
Japanese, 2003.

 
On the American Economy  link to its own page      

On Economic Development    

[“Lessons from India and China,”  1-page comment for the FT.Forum on Martin Wolf column, “In the brave new world, Chindia’s uneven rise continues,” Financial Times, March 20, 2007.]

"South Africa: Macroeconomic Challenges after a Decade of Success"  (with B.Smit & F.Sturzenegger), KSG RWP07-021 April 2007.     Economics of  Transition  16, no. 4, 2008, 639-677 (Blackwell).    From Project on South Africa: Performance and Prospects, Center for International Development, Harvard University,  Jan. 2008.

Other Frankel papers/presentations on South Africa.

Jeffrey Frankel and Amartya Sen debate in the Forum "Is the Language of Rights Useful in the Fight Against Poverty?"

["What do developing countries take away from the September meetings in Dubai (IMF/World Bank) & Cancun (WTO)?" Latin America Advisor, Sept. 2003.]

Comments on Bosworth and Collins, “The Empirics of Growth: An Update”  Brookings Panel on Economic Activity Vol. 2, 2003, pp. 189-199.

[Interview on "Economic Development and Lessons from the Recent Experience of the US Economy," Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network, World Bank.]

"Promoting Better National Institutions: The Role of the IMF,"   KSG RWP03-010.  IMF Staff Papers, 50, 2003.
[Video of the four speakers: Guillermo Ortiz, Jeffrey Sachs, Frankel, and Nancy Birdsall.]

On Emerging Markets         

“Getting Carried Away:  How the Carry Trade and Its Potential Unwinding Can Explain Movements in International Financial Markets,”  Nov. 2007.  Version edited (no footnotes or references) for the Milken Institute Review, 1st Quarter, 2008 .

"Fiscal and Monetary Policy in a Commodity Based Economy" (with B. Smit & F.Sturzenegger),  Economics of  Transition 16, no. 4, 2008, 679-713 (Blackwell).      CID South Africa Project, South Africa Growth InitiativeCenter for International Development.   

"Does Openness to Trade Make Countries Less Vulnerable to Sudden Stops? Using Gravity to Establish Causality" (with Eduardo Cavallo), forthcoming Journal of International Money and Finance.   KSG RWP 04-038 NBER WP No. 10957.   Revised July 2007.

"Contractionary Currency Crashes in Developing Countries,
The Mundell Fleming Lecture, Nov. 5, 2004
IMF 5th Annual Research Conference.   
[slides, May 2005].
In IMF Staff Papers, 52, no. 2, 2005,
149-192.
KSG  RWP05-017, Feb. 2005.   NBER Working Paper No. 11508,  July  2005.

"The Forward Market in Emerging Currencies: Less Biased than in Major Currencies," Sept. 1, 2006, (with Jumana Poonawala)  NBER WP No. 12496, August 2006;  revised from Sept. 2004, version with full appendices.

"Slow Passthrough Around the World: A New Import for Developing Countries?" (with David Parsley and Shang-Jin Wei),  KSG RWP05-016   NBER WP no. 11199, March 2005.

“Managing Macroeconomic Crises: Policy Lessons” (with Shang-Jin Wei). Chapter 7 in Managing Economic Volatility and Crises: A Practitioner’s Guide edited by Joshua Aizenman and Brian Pinto (Cambridge University Press), 2005.   Video of presentation 2/27/04, World Bank.  NBER WP no. 10907.    Tables & Figures

"The Role of Industrial Country Policies in Emerging Market Crises," (with Nouriel Roubini) [Summary], NBER WP 8634.  In Economic and Financial Crises in Emerging Market Economies, edited by Martin Feldstein, 2003.

[Brazil contagion, The Connection radio show, August 7, 2002]

"Ten Lessons Learned from the Korean Crisis", NBER, Feb. 2000, Cambridge, MA.

"On Reports that Someone in Washington Has Mislaid Russia," The Future of Russia, Dec.1999, Harvard University.   Published as "Who Lost Russia?" in newspapers of Project Syndicate, Nov. 2000.

"The Balance Between Adjustment and Financing," in Key Issues in Reform of the International Monetary System, edited by P. Kenen and A. Swoboda, International Monetary Fund, 2002.

"International Lender of Last Resort," from Rethinking the International Monetary System, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 1999.

"The New Financial Architecture: Exchange Rate Regimes and Financial Integration," Policy Brief no. 51, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, June 1999.

"Soros' Split Personality," Foreign Affairs, 78, no. 2, 1999, 124-130.

On Exchange Rate Regimes            

“Exchange Rate Regimes: Current Issues in Research and Policy,” lecture slides,   IMF Institute, May 25, 2007.

"Estimation of De Facto Exchange Rate Regimes:  Synthesis of  The Techniques for Inferring Flexibility and Basket Weights,"  Condensed for publication, May 2008;  IMF Staff Papers 2008, vol.55.   Replication files.    slides.   Complete version with all appendix tables: NBER WP No. 14016, May 2008, March 2008.  Or, with selection of appendix tables: Harvard KS RWP08-026, May 2008.   Replication files  
  For China
                                 

NEW  "The RMB: China's Exchange Rate Policy," Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations," April 4, 2008.  slides.

NEW “Comments on Cline and Williamson’s ‘Estimates of the Equilibrium Exchange Rate of the Renminbi?’,”   in China’s Exchange Rate Policy, edited by M. Goldstein and N. Lardy, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington DC,
2008, 155-165.

Comment on ‘China’s Current Account and Exchange Rate,’ by Yin-Wong Cheung, Menzie Chinn and Eiji Fuji,” in China’s Growing Role in World Trade,  edited by R. Feenstra and S.J. Wei,  forthcoming, NBER, University of Chicago Press.

"Assessing China's Exchange Rate Regime," (with Shang-Jin Wei),  Economic Policy 51, July 2007
, pp. 575-614  Panel meeting, Feb.12, 2007.  Vox summary.   Earlier working paper versions contain more extensive tables: CEPR DP No. 6264, April 2007, and NBER WP 13100, May 2007.    Zipped programs and datasets.

"On the Yuan: The Choice Between Adjustment Under a Fixed Exchange Rate and Adjustment under a Flexible Rate,"  published 2006 by Oxford University Press  Understanding the Chinese Economy, 2005, edited by Gerhard Illing. (With abstract), CESifo Economic Studies, Munich.  KSG
RWP04-037.   NBER WP 11274.

“The Balassa-Samuelson Relationship and the Renminbi,” KSG, Dec. 2006.

“On the Renminbi,”  CESifo Forum, vol 6, no. 3, Autumn 2005, p. 16-21 Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich.

[China's Announcement of de-linking from RMB to the $ -- Segment on On Point radio show July 21, 2005]

   Exchange Rates For Other Emerging Market Countries       

CID  projects, Harvard University:      
       
CID South Africa Growth Initiative, including recent working papers and news. 

         Project on South Africa: Performance and Prospects
 Center for International Development
: 
      "On the Rand: Determinants of the South African Exchange Rate," 
 South African Journal of Economics, 75, no.3, September 2007.
      Other Frankel papers/presentations on South Africa.
             



          "On the Tenge: Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy for Kazakhstan" Short-term consultancy for government of Kazakhstan, CID, Apr.11, 2005.

"Experience of and Lessons from Exchange Rate Regimes in Emerging Economies,"
   in Monetary and Financial Integration in East Asia: The Way Ahead, edited by Asian Development Bank, 2004 (Palgrave Macmillan Press, NY), vol. 2,  91-138Also KSG Working Paper: RWP03-011; and NBER WP no.10032 .

"Global Transmission of Interest Rates: Monetary Independence and Currency Regimes," (with Sergio L. Schmukler and Luis Servén),  NBER WP no. 8828.  Journal of International Money and Finance, 23, no. 5, Sept. 2004, 701-734.
[After Argentina: "No Right Answer?"  The Economist Global Agenda, January 21, 2002.]

"Verifiability and the Vanishing Intermediate Exchange Rate Regime,"
  with Sergio Schmukler and Luis Servén;  Brookings Trade Forum 2000, edited by S. Collins and D. Rodrik; Brookings Institution, Washington DC.

"No Single Currency Regime is Right for All Countries or at All Times," Graham Lecture, Princeton University.   Essays in International Finance No. 215, Princeton University Press.   NBER Working Paper No. 7338,  1999.
   The Euro and other Currency Unions  

NEW “The Estimated Effects of the Euro on Trade:  Why are They Below Historical Evidence on Effects of Monetary Unions Among Smaller Countries?”  NBER conference on Europe and the Euro, organized by Alberto Alesina & Francesco Giavazzi, Oct. 17-18, 2008..  Earlier version, “The estimated effects of the euro on trade” presented July 2008, for 14th Dubrovnik Economic Conference, sponsored by Croatian National Bank.    Data set will soon be posted.

 “Should Central European Countries Join the Euro? A Review and Update of Trade Estimates and Consideration of Endogenous OCA Criteria,” July 21, 2008; for Common Currency and Its Future Lesson for the New Member States, National Bank of Poland, Warsaw, October 15, 2008.

["Emu's second 10 years may be tougher than its first," Martin Wolf Financial Times, May 28, p. 9.]
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"Dollar chilled by rise of euro," The Guardian Weekly, 4/4/08, p. 43.]
["This crisis could bring the euro centre-stage," Wolfgang Münchau,  Financial TimesMarch 23 2008.]

NEW "The Euro Could Surpass the Dollar Within 10 Years,"  Vox, March 18, 2008.

NEW  Why the Euro Will Rival the Dollar?” (with Menzie Chinn),  International Finance (Blackwill Publishers), 11, no. 1, 49-73.  Revised version of “The Euro May Over the Next 15 Years Surpass the Dollar as Leading International Currency."    Page proofs   RWP08-016, HKSG, and  NBER WP 13909,  April 2008, .

Shortly before Slovenia joined the euro in January 2007, its interest rates converged to Euro interest rates -- Graph .

"Will the Euro Eventually Surpass the Dollar as Leading International Reserve Currency?" (with Menzie Chinn).   In G7 Current Account Imbalances: Sustainability and Adjustment, edited by Richard Clarida, Univ.of Chicago Press, 2007.     
NBER conference, Newport, RI, June 1-2, 2005, 
NBER WP 11510.   
At AEI Sept.2005 .   
At Conference on Global Imbalances & Asian Financial Markets, UC Berkeley, Sept. 2005 [slides].  
Chinese translation forthcoming, International Finance, Taipei. 

[Interview on "International Currency Rankings," including video excerpt, Kennedy School Insight, May 2006.]

["Currency competition: How the dollar might lose its status as the world's main reserve currency,"   Economist, Sept. 29, 2005.]

["Euro may become top reserve currency by 2022 -- study,"  Reuters, Aug. 5, 2005.]

My comments on "The Euro's Trade Effects,"  March 2006, by Richard Baldwin ECB WP 594, March 2006.  For What Effects is EMU Having on the Euro Area and its Member Countries?  European Central Bank, Frankfurt, June 2005.   Forthcoming.

Comments on: "The Euro, Stabilization Policy, and the Stability and Growth Pact or Can Rubinomics work in the Eurozone?" by Adam S. Posen.  In The Euro at Five: Ready for a Global Role? edited by Adam Posen, 2005; pp. 157-169.  Originally presented at conference at the Institute for International Economics.

"Real Convergence and Euro Adoption in Central and Eastern Europe: Trade and Business Cycle Correlations as Endogenous Criteria for Joining EMU,"    in  Euro Adoption in the Accession Countries – Opportunities and Challenges  edited by Susan Schadler (IMF: Washington DC), 2005.    Conference, Prague, Feb. 2004.    KSG RWP04-039, Aug. 2004 

"The Euro Area and World Interest Rates" with Menzie Chinn.   Presented at NY Fed conference on "Financial Globalization", Dec. 2004 Summary in conference proceedings, Centre for Economic Policy Research, London.

"The UK Decision re EMU: Implications of Currency Blocs for Trade and Business Cycle Correlations," in Submissions on EMU from Leading Academics (H.M. Treasury: London), 2003, p.99-109. 

“Currency Blocs and Market Integration: Implications for Trade and Business Cycle Correlations,” A background report for the Commission on The UK Outside the Euro, October 30, 2002. 

"Comments on ‘Full Dollarization: The Case of Panama’ by Goldfajn and Olivares," LACEA, Rio de Janeiro, 2000; Economia Spring 2001, vol.1, no.2.

"An Estimate of the Effect of Common Currencies on Trade and Income," with Andrew Rose. Quarterly Journal of Economics. May 2002. SUMMARY published in Currency Unions, edited by Alberto Alesina and Robert Barro, Hoover Institution Press, Stanford, CA, 2001.  [Our data, some relevant op-ed and newspaper coverage, and a response to a comment by Dani Rodrik, are available at Andy Rose's website.] The Frankel-Romer-Rose gravity-based instrumental variable for trade openness, as updated in Frankel-Rose, 2002

"On the Euro: An American Perspective," for EMU Watch Series, DB Research, Frankfurt, June 21, 2000. 

   Proposal to Peg the Export Price (PEP)     

“Peg the Export Price Index: A Proposed Monetary Regime for Small Countries,”    Journal of Policy Modeling vol. 27, no. 4, June 2005.

"Iraq’s Currency Solution? Tie the Dinar to Oil," The International Economy, Fall 2003.

A Proposal to Tie Iraq’s Currency to Oil published as "A Crude Peg for the Iraqi Dinar," Financial Times, June 13, 2003.  

"A Proposed Monetary Regime for Small Commodity-Exporters: Peg the Export Price (‘PEP’)," KSG Research Working Paper No. RWP03-003, Harvard University.  International Finance (Blackwill Publishers), vol. 6, no. 1, Spring 2003, 61-88.

"A Proposal to Anchor Monetary Policy by the Price of the Export Commodity"  (with Ayako Saiki), J. of Econ. Integration, Sept. 2002, vol.17, no.3, 417-48. 

    "Should Gold-Exporters Peg Their Currencies to Gold?",
 
Research Study No. 29,  World Gold Council,  London, UK, 2002.     

Tables and Charts  

On Global Environmental Issues          

NEW Global Environmental Policy and Global Trade Policy,” for the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements, directed by Joe Aldy and Rob Stavins, September 1, 2008.    Slides.

NEW "An Elaborated Proposal for Global Climate Policy Architecture: Specific Formulas and Emission Targets for All Countries in All Decades,” for the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements, directed by Joe Aldy and Rob Stavins, October 2008.  Revised version of "Specific Formulas and Emission Targets for All Countries in All Decades," Aug. 2008.   Slides.

NEW  “How to Make Climate Change Research Relevant to Washington policymakers,” Energy Modeling Forum Workshop on Climate Change Impacts and Integrated Assessment, Snowmass, Colorado, July 31-Aug 1, 2008, pwrpt.slides.

NEW   Addressing the Leakage/Competitiveness Issue In Climate Change Policy Proposals,” panel  on Proposals to Deal with Leakages, conference on Climate Change, Trade and Investment: Is a Collision Inevitable?, June 9, 2008, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, organized by Lael Brainard.   Revised, August 2008.

“Trade, Growth, and the Environment,” slides for guest lecture in Rob Stavins’ class in Environmental & Resource Economics and Policy, April 28, 2008.

"The Global Climate Regime and the Global Trade Regime," slides;  and "Formulas for Quantitative Emissions," Powerpoint.  Both for Harvard Projects on International Climate Agreements Research Workshop, March 13-14, 2008, and Regulatory Policy Program  Seminar, March 20, 2008. Harvard University.

Next Steps After the Kyoto Protocol:   Formulas for Quantitative Emission Targets (summary),” Vox , June 2007.

1-page comment on Martin Wolf's column "In spite of sceptics, it is worth reducing climate change."  For FT Forum, FT.com, Feb. 7, 2007.

1-page comment on “Curbs on emissions will take a change of political climate.”   For FT Forum, FT.com, Nov. 8, 2006.

“Formulas for Quantitative Emission Targets,” Chapter 2 in   Architectures for Agreement: Addressing Global Climate Change in the Post Kyoto World, edited by Joe Aldy and Robert Stavins, Cambridge University Press, 2007, p. 32-56.     KSG RWP07-011, Feb. 2007.    [Press release, March 2007: "After Kyoto, Then What?" Kennedy School professor outlines plan to confront challenges posed by greenhouse gas emissions.]        Summary slides version, for
New Directions in Regulatory Policy, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government Oct. 24, 2007.

Comments on Barrett, Nordhaus, Pizer, & Stavins, Kyoto and Beyond: Alternative Approaches to Global Warming, AEA meetings, Jan 6, 2006,  Boston.

"Designing a Regime of Emission Commitments for Developing Countries that is Cost-Effective and Equitable" (with Joseph Aldy), written for G20 Leaders and Climate Change, Council on Foreign Relations, Sept. 20-21, 2004.

"The Impact of a Revised Kyoto Protocol on Developing Countries," August 2004, written for Business and Economy, India.

"Kyoto and Geneva: Linkage of the Climate Change Regime and the Trade Regime" a speech for Broadening Climate Discussion: The Linkage of Climate Change to Other Policy Areas, FEEM/MIT conference, Venice, Italy, June 2004.    KSG RWP04-042 Published as "Climate and Trade: Links Between the Kyoto Protocol and WTO,"  in Environment, vol. 47, no. 7, September 2005: 8-19.

"Is Trade Good or Bad for the Environment?  Sorting out the Causality" with Andrew Rose, Review of Economics and Statistics, 87, no. 1, 2005.  NBER WP no. 9201  NBER digest. Condensed version, KSG RWP03-038.   [Data available (in Stata).]

"The Environment and Globalization" in Globalization: What's New edited by Michael Weinstein, Council on Foreign Relations (Columbia University Press: New York), 2005, pp. 129-169.   NBER WP no. 10090.  At Neemrana, India, Jan. 2003.  Reprinted in Economics of the Environment: Selected Readings, Fifth Edition, edited by R.Stavins (W.W.Norton: New York), 2005.

"You're Getting Warmer:  The Most Feasible Path for Addressing Global Climate Change Does Run Through Kyoto," Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Milan, Italy, May 17, 2001.  In Trade and Environment: Theory and Policy in the Context of EU Enlargement and Transition Economies, edited John Maxwell and Rafael Reuveny, (Edward Elgar Publishers, Ltd., UK), 2005; pp. 37-55.

"The Economics of the Kyoto Protocol and Global Climate Change Policy," Kennedy School Forum, March 15, 2000.

"Achieving Environmental Goals at Minimum Economic Cost," Edison Electric Institute Advisory Panel on Fuel Diversity, EEI Chief Executives Conference, Palm Springs, CA, Jan. 2000.

"Greenhouse Gas Emissions," Policy Brief no. 52, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, June 1999.

“The Kyoto Agreement on Global Climate Change: The Administration Economic Analysis,” Luncheon Remarks to the NBER Conference on Tax Policy and the Economy, Hotel Washington, Oct. 20, 1998.    Appendix: Tables and Charts of Effects on Energy Prices..
 

On Globalization and Trade        

“What Do Economists Mean by Globalization?  Implications for Inflation and Monetary Policy,”  Oct.4 draft; for Academic Consultants Meeting, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Sept. 28, 2006.    Slides with graphs.   Forthcoming,  in Economic Integration - Global Experience, edited by  P. Pushkele, with S. Pathak,  Icfai University Press (Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India): Hyderbad, Dec. 2007.

"Pro-Trade Arguments in Answer to the Contrarians," Financial Times, July 11, 2005.

"The World Trading System and Implications of External Opening"; written for a panel of Fundacio CIDOB forum, Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 24-25, 2004.  Forthcoming in The Washington Consensus Reconsidered: Towards a New Global Governance, edited by Narcis Serra and Joseph Stiglitz (Oxford University Press), March 2008.  CFIA Discussion Paper 04-07.

 "The Flubbed Opportunity for the US to Exercise Global Economic Leadership"; The International Economy, XVIII, no. 2, Spring 2004.

"A Review of The Wind of the Hundred Days: How Washington Mismanaged Globalization by Jagdish Bhagwati," Foreign Affairs, March/April, 2001.

"Assessing the Efficiency Gains from Further Liberalization," Conference on Efficiency, Equity and Legitimacy: The Multilateral Trading System at the Millennium, in honor of Raymond Vernon. Edited by R.Porter, P.Sauve, A.Subramanian, and A.Zampetti,  Brookings Institution Press, Washington, D.C. 2001.  [Cited in Washington Post Editorial.]

"Globalization: Why and How It Should Continue," MacArthur Transnational Economic Security Workshop, MIT, May 2000.

"Globalization of the Economy,"  NBER Working Paper No 7858,  Governance in a Globalizing World, edited by Joseph Nye and John Donahue, Brookings Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 2000.    Reprinted in International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues, Robert Art and Robert Jervis, eds., Longman, 7th ed., 2005.

The Frankel-Romer-Rose gravity-based instrumental variable for trade openness, as updated in Frankel-Rose, 2002

On the US, Asia and the Global Monetary System      

NEW “The United States, China, and the Policy Choices,”  Conference on the Global Economy in Balance,  U. Wisconsin, Madison, May 1, 2008.  Slides.

["Have Financial Developments Made the International Monetary Fund Obsolete?" for The International Economy, March 1, 2007]

[“Can China Achieve a Soft Landing?” Sept.18, 2006, For The International Economy, Fall issue.]

["Outlook for the US Dollar" (in Korean), interview in Maeil Kyongje, Seoul, Jan. 10, 2006.]

Comments on Dooley and Garber, “Is it 1958 or 1968?   Three Notes on the Longevity of the Revived Bretton Woods System,” Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, issue I, 2005, 19 -204.

"Push the Euro Up and the Yen Down".  Osaka, April 17, 2002.       

"To What Extent is the US Following in Japan’s Footsteps?" Forum, The International Economy, Nov. 28, 2000.

Comments on N. Yoshino and E. Sakakibara's "The Current State of the Japanese Economy and Remedies,"  Asian Economic Papers vol.1, no.2, 2002.

China-US currency issues

Recent Developments in American International Economic Policy  

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