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 **Recent:**

 [Discussion of “Unveiling the Dance of Commodity Prices and the Global Financial Cycle,”](/file_url/1187) by Luciana Juvenal and Ivan Petrella, 46th ISoM, EC JRC, Ispra, Italy, June 22, 2023.

 “The Resource Curse” [slides](/). ANU Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis 10th Annual Workshop on the Global Economy: Commodity Prices and Inflation, Georgetown, May 16, 2023.

 "[Restructuring the Debt of African Commodity-Exporters](https://www.jeffrey-frankel.com/2023/04/28/restructuring-debt-of-african-commodity-exporters/)," *[Project Syndicate](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/commodity-bonds-help-indebted-countries-hedge-against-price-volatility-by-jeffrey-frankel-2023-04?barrier=accesspay)*, April 25, 2023.

 "[Why Commodity Prices are Likely to Fall](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/slower-growth-higher-interest-rates-lower-commodity-prices-by-jeffrey-frankel-2022-08?barrier=accesspay)," *Project Syndicat*e, August 23, 2022.  
  
[Comment](/file_url/877) at G-20 High-Level Ministerial Conference on, Tackling the Covid-19 crisis – Restoring Sustainable Flows of Capital and Robust Financing for Development, July 8, 2020.

 "The Currency-plus-Commodity Basket Peg: A Proposed Monetary Regime for Commodity-Exporting Countries" [Ppt](/file_url/637) or [pdf presentation](/file_url/638), for LACEA, Guayaquil, Ecuador, Nov.9-10, 2018.

 "Macroeconomic determinants of commodity prices." [Ppt slides](/file_url/595) ([pdf](/file_url/596)), National Minerals Information Center Seminar Series, US Geological Survey, Reston, VA, August 23, 2018

 "Macroeconomic determinants of international commodity prices," [Ppt slides](/file_url/597) ([pdf](/file_url/598)), Keynote Address ([photo](/file_url/712)), [JPMCC](https://business-news.ucdenver.edu/2018/08/23/international-commodities-symposium-focuses-on-real-world-application/) [International Commodities Symposium](http://www.jpmcc-gcard.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Page-11_17-Winter-2018-GCARD-Yang.pdf), Univ. of Colorado Denver Business School, August 13-15, 2018.

 "[Coping with commodity price volatility: an idea for exporting countries](http://globaldev.blog/blog/coping-commodity-price-volatility-idea-exporting-countries)," *GlobalDev,* Feb. 8, 2018.  
  
“Four Policy Proposals for Commodity Exporters,” MENA Seminar Series, World Bank, DC, Jan. 10, 2018. [Ppt slides.](/file_url/501)   
  
"[Four Proposals to Help Commodity-Exporters Cope with Price Volatility](http://voxeu.org/article/four-proposals-help-commodity-exporters-cope-price-volatility)," *VoxEU*, Oct.19, 2017.  
  
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 “Policies for Managing External Shocks in Commodity-Exporting Countries,“ [ppt](/file_url/279), Conference on Current Account Sustainability, InterAmerican Development Bank, Apr.18, 2017.  
  
"[How Commodity Exporters Can Cope with Price Volatility: Four Proposals](/file_url/430),”[(pdf).](/file_url/429) High Level Seminar, *Natural Resources, Finance & Growth*, sponsored by Bank of Algeria, Algiers, May 28-29, 2016, [ppt](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/jfrankel/CommoditiesAlgiers2016May.pptx), [pdf](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/jfrankel/CommoditiesAlgiers2016May.pdf). OCP, Casablanca, June 3, [ppt](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/jfrankel/Commodities4OCP-2016Casablanca.pptx), [pdf](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/jfrankel/Commodities4OCP-2016Casablanca.pdf). AAEA, Boston, Aug. 1, 2016; [ppt](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/jfrankel/Commodities-2016AugAAEA.pptx) [pdf](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/jfrankel/Commodities-2016AugAAEA.pdf).