Jeffrey Frankel's activities in conjunction with the
 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Business Cycle Dating Committee  Highlights of Research in International Finance and Macroeconomics NBER Project on Exchange Rate Crises in Emerging Market Countries International Seminar on Macroeconomics

 

BUSINESS CYCLE DATING COMMITEE

   NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee  

Recession watch, 2008:
"Recession Uncertain, Says NBER Economist,MoneyNews, Aug. 28, 2008
"Jobs data, GDP, Stoke doubt over recession -- The 'official' recession call," MSNBC, Aug.1

"Why so long to call a recession?"  Business Week, May 19, 2008
"If it feels like a recession..."  All Things Considered, NPR, Feb.15, 2008 
"NBER BCDC members weigh in"  Wall Street Journal, Jan.24, 2008

Official BCDC Announcements:

Chronology of US Business Cycle Expansions/Contractions

NBER's Recession Dating Procedures, Jan. 7, 2008

Committee declares end of 2001 recession, July 17, 2003
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Nov. 26, 2001, announcement of start of the last recession

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The committee in photos.
Fortune magazine


Some media reports on NBER BCDC decisions regarding the dating of the 2001 recession:
bullet "Out of Depth: Can Greg Mankiw Survive Politics?" The New Republic, April 12, 2004
bullet"Experts Date It to Bush; Bush Says It Was Clinton's" Washington Post, March 5, 2004
bullet Business Week article on CEA declaration that 2001 recession started earlier than NBER says, Feb. 23, 2004

 


 

HIGHLIGHTS OF RESEARCH IN iNTERNATIONAL  FINANCE AND MACROECONOMICS

“Research in the IFM Program,” NBER Board of Directors Meeting, NYC, Apr. 2006. Slides.

Highlights of Research in NBER International Finance and Macroeconomics Program, 1999-2003      updated April 4, 2006

Highlights of Research in NBER International Finance and Macroeconomics Program, 1996-1999

 

 

 

NBER Project on Exchange Rate Crises in Emerging Market Countries

Project on Exchange Rate Crises in Emerging Market Countries
Project Directors, Martin Feldstein and Jeffrey Frankel

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From University of Chicago Press, Chicago:

Managing Currency Crises in Emerging Markets (with Michael Dooley), 2003.

Preventing Currency Crises in Emerging Markets (with Sebastian Edwards), 2002.
NBER Project Country Conferences on: 
Argentina, July 17, 2002  Turkey, July 18, 2001     Malaysia, February 16, 2001 
Indonesia, Sept. 15, 2000   Brazil, April 14-15, 2000   Korea, February 1, 2000  

 

 

International Seminar on Macroeconomics   

      RECENT MEETINGS     

The 31st Annual ISoM met in Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 26-27  , 2008, hosted by the Central Bank of Slovenia.   The  program was organized by Jeff Frankel and Chris Pissarides.   (Introduction and summary Summary.)  Selected papers and discussants comments to be published in NBER International Seminar in Macroeconomics 2008, forthcoming, University of Chicago Press.

The 30th Annual ISoM met in Istanbul, Turkey, June 15-16 , 2007,  hosted by Erdem Basci, Vice Governor, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey.  The program was organized by Richard Clarida and Francesco Giavazzi.    Selected papers and discussants comments to be published in NBER International Seminar in Macroeconomics 2007, forthcoming, University of Chicago Press.

The 29th Annual ISoM met in Tallinn, Estonia, June 16-17 , 2006, hosted by Märten Ross, Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Estonia.  The program was organized by Lucrezia Reichlin and Ken West.   Selected papers and discussants' comments have been published in NBER International Seminar in Macroeconomics 2006University of Chicago Press, 2008,  in a companion volume to the NBER Macro Annual 2006 .

The 28th Annual ISoM met in Budapest, Hungary, June 17-18 , 2005, hosted by György Szapáry, Deputy Governor, Magyar Nemzeti Bank (the Central Bank of Hungary).  The program was organized by Jeffrey Frankel and Chris Pissarides.   Selected papers and discussants' comments are published in NBER International Seminar in Macroeconomics 2005, MIT Press, 2007.    Introduction.

The 27th Annual ISoM met in Reykjavik, Iceland, June 18-19, 2004, hosted by Thor Gylfason at the University of Iceland, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. The program was organized by Richard Clarida and Francesco Giavazzi.    Selected papers  and discussants' comments  appear in a companion volume to the NBER Macro Annual:  NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2004, edited by Richard Clarida, Jeffrey Frankel, Francesco Giavazzi and Kenneth West, 2006,  The MIT Press; Table of Contents, Summary of theme, and ordering information Summary.    Introduction.     Cover.

The 26th Annual ISoM met in Barcelona, Spain, June 13-14, 2003, hosted by Jordi Gali at the Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional, of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. The program was organized by Zvi Eckstein and Ken West.  Selected papers were published in the Journal of the European Economic Association  vol. 3, no. 5, Sept. 2005;  and others have been published in:   NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2004, edited by Richard Clarida, Jeffrey Frankel, Francesco Giavazzi and Kenneth West, 2006,  The MIT Press, Table of Contents, Summary and ordering information.

The 25th Annual ISoM met in Frankfurt, Germany, June 14-15, 2002, hosted by Otmar Issing and Frank Smets, the European Central Bank. The program was organized by Jim Stock and Lars Svensson. Selected papers were published in the Journal of the European Economic Association vol. 1, no. 5, Sept. 2003.  Table of Contents.

24th Annual International Seminar on Macroeconomics, organized by Jeffrey Frankel and Francesco Giavazzi, was held in Dublin, Ireland, June 8-9, 2001, hosted by Vincent Hogan, University College, Dublin.      Papers are published in the European Economic Review, vol. 46, no. 7, June 2002.  Table of Contents.

 

ISOM Co-Chairs are Jeff Frankel and Francesco Giavazzi

From 1990 to 2003, ISOM was organized jointly by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the European Economic Association. The sponsoring parties decided that the collaboration has accomplished its mission. Starting with Volume 27, the NBER  became the sole sponsor of ISoM.   We continue to work with a local host in a different European country each year. Selected proceedings are now published as the NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics, a companion volume to the NBER Macroeconomics Annual.

Historical list of ISoM hosts and organizers, 1978-2002


Ten classic ISoM papers
IsoM Greatest Hits: Top Fifteen Highly Cited Papers of the First Twenty-Five Years (1978-2002)

 

 

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