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...recession for months—Poterba said he thought that the psychological consequences of the official declaration would be modest. Though there was a broad selloff in the stock market yesterday, including a nearly 700 point decline in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Harvard Kennedy School professor Jeffrey A. Frankel, who is also on the committee, said that he does not think the announcement was responsible. Though the committee does not recommend steps to pull the nation out of the recession, Poterba, Frankel, and committee member Robert E. Hall of Stanford said that policies should be aimed at creating...
...charged with leading a staff of professional economists that provides expert advice to Obama. In addition to Mankiw, past CEA chairs include Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke ’75 and economics professor Martin S. Feldstein ’61. Harvard Kennedy School professor Jeffrey A. Frankel said that Romer, a highly-regarded scholar of monetary and tax policy, will bring more skills to the job than just her intellectual firepower. “Not all academics make good policy makers,” Frankel said. “But she’s got—besides...
...Diekema said. “We swam pretty well. [Cornell was] faster than maybe we thought they’d be.”In the 400-yard freestyle relay, Tan, Jones, Heyburn, and Guernsey finished in second place in 3:06.60, and the team of Diekema, freshman Graham Frankel, sophomore Eric Taylor, and freshman Nicholas DuCille placed third in the event with a time of 3:09.09.The Crimson will look to carry its momentum over to its meet against Columbia on Friday at Blodgett Pool.“I think today we rose to the challenge pretty well...
...strength,” Zeckhauser said, and his penchant for blunt criticism did him no favors with the cadre of faculty members who had opposed his presidency from the start.But Summers was able to weather his time in the Clinton administration without instigating conflicts, Kennedy School professor Jeffrey A. Frankel said. The fact that Summers had trouble leading the University, Frankel said, “says more about Harvard than it does about him.”FIGHTING THE FACULTYFrom the outset of his presidency, several professors criticized what they saw as Summers’ heavy-handed involvement in Faculty...
Only border measures established by multilateral agreement and targeted toward fossil fuels and energy-intensive methods of production should be allowable, according to Frankel. These measures would either impose tariffs or require an exchange of carbon permits, and create a uniform method to evaluate the actual environmental impacts of production...