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Natural Resource Curse
" An Economic Perspective on the Natural Resource Curse and Its Implications for a Developing Country," Day of Ecuador at Harvard: Breaking the Natural Resources Dependence, April 21, 2014. " Resource Abundance: Pitfalls and Prescriptions," Frontiers in...

Commodity Prices: Macro Determinants
"Macroeconomic determinants of commodity prices." Ppt slides ( pdf), National Minerals Information Center Seminar Series, US Geological Survey, Reston, VA, August 23, 2018 "Macroeconomic determinants of international commodity prices," Ppt slides ( pdf)...

Official NBER BCDC links
BCDC meeting, April 8, 2010 Business Cycle Dating Committee members Chronology of recession dates "Announcement of June 2009 Business Cycle Trough / End of Last Recession" Sept.20, 2010. " No Trough Announced," April 12, 2010. " Determination of the...

Selected Press Coverage of BCDC (2001-11)
Double Dip watch, 2011: " Recession Gatekeepers: How a Economic Downturn is Determined," ABC News, Sept. 26, 2011. " Odds of U.S. Recession Seen Rising by Academic Panel Majority," Bloomberg, Aug 3, 2011. Recovery watch, 2010: " The Recession is Over,"...

Jeffrey Frankel

Jeffrey Frankel is James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard University's Kennedy School. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He served at the US President's Council of Economic Advisers in...

Publications on Regional Trading Arrangements
"Open Regionalism in a World of Continental Trade Blocs" (with Shang-Jin Wei), IMF Staff Papers, Vol. 45, No. 3, September 1998, 440-453. NBER WP No. 5272 . "Integrating Transportation Costs and Geography into Trade Analysis," in Technological Changes in...

Publications on International Trade
“ Globalization and Chinese Growth: Ends of Trends?” ( PDF), 2017, Il Grande Sconvolgimento, edited by Paolo Onofri (Il Mulino: Bologna). HKS RWP 16-029. “ The Natural Resource Curse: A Survey ,” forthcoming in Export Perils , edited by B. Shaffer...