His specific research interests, as described on his Berkeley Web page, include "the globalization of financial markets, the workings of the foreign exchange market, international macroeconomic policy coordination, regional trading blocs, trade and growth in East Asia, and monetary influences on prices of agricultural and mineral commodities."
Frankel said his wife, Jessica Stern, will become a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School when he assumes his professorship.
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Stern, a specialist in national security, is a staff member of the president's National Security Council.