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Frenkel, Jacob Aharon was born on February 8, 1943 in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Came to United States, 1967. Son of Kalman H. and Lea (Zwibaum) Frenkel.
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Frenkel, Jacob Aharon was born on February 8, 1943 in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Came to United States, 1967. Son of Kalman H. and Lea (Zwibaum) Frenkel.
Bachelor in Economics and Political Science, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1966. Postgraduate (fellow), Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1967. Master of Arts (fellow), University Chicago, 1969.
Doctor of Philosophy in Economics (Lilly Honor fellow), University Chicago, 1970.
Member of Graduate School Business, University Chicago, 1973-1987, professor of international economics, 1982-1987. Economic counsellor, director of research International Monetary Fund, 1987-1991. Member of the Tel Aviv University faculty, 1991-1996, professor of economics, peace and international relations, 1994-1996.
Governor of bank of Israel, Jerusalem, 1991-1999. Chairman of the sovereign advisory group Merrill Lynch, London, 2000—2004. Chairman of Merrill Lynch International Inc., 2000—2004.
Chairman of the global economic strategies group America International Group, since 2004, vice chairman, since 2004. Member of G-7 Council, advisory committee of Institute for International Economics. Member group of 30, distinguished member of Korea Institute for Global Economicsadvisory committee.
Chairman of Inter-American Development Bank, 1995-1996. Co-chairman of Israeli delegate to multilateral peace talks on regional economic developers, since 1991.
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Studied the relation between economic growth and the balance of payments and contributed to the developments of the monetary approach to the balance of payments and the asset market theory of exchange-rate determination. Developed a methodology for estimating transactions costs in the market for foreign exchange and studied the operation of covered interest arbitrage. Studied the economics of hyperinflation and analysed the use of forward exchange rates as measures of expectations.
Studied the Purchasing Power Parity theory and the relation between spot and forward exchange rates. Contributed to the theory and the empirical research
on the demand for international reserves. Analysed the determinants of the optimal management of exchange rates and the interaction between wage indexation and exchange rate policy.
Most recently, studied the impact of government spending and budget deficits on world rates of interest and the international transmission of fiscal policies in the interdependent world economy.
Fellow of Econometric Society. Member of American Academy Arts and Sciences (foreign honorary), Japan Society Monetary Economics (honorary), Israel Association Graduates in Social Sciences and Humanities (honorary president).
Married Niza Yair, September 3, 1968. Children: Orli-Miriam, Tahl-Idaho.