Michael Frenkel, Ph.D.

Michael Frenkel, Ph.D.

Visiting Faculty

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  • Visiting Professor, Sasin School of Management
  • Associate Dean for International Relations and Diversity & Professor of Macroeconomics and International Economics, WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management

  • Associate Dean for International Relations and Diversity, WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management
  • Professor of Macroeconomics and International Economics, WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management

  • Frenkel, M., J.-C. Rülke and L. Zimmermann, Do Private Sector Forecasters Chase after IMF or OECD Forecasts?, forthcoming in Journal of Macroeconomics.
  • Frenkel, M., J.-C. Rülke and L. Zimmermann,, Do Current Account Forecasters Herd? – Evidence from the Euro Area and the G7 Countries”, Review of International Economics, Vol. 20 (2012), pp. 221–236.
  • Fendel, R., M. Frenkel, and J.-C. Rülke, “Ex-ante Taylor Rules and Expectation Forming in Emerging Markets”, Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 39 (2011), pp. 230-244.
  • Frenkel, M., E. Lis, and J.-C. Rülke, Has the Economic Crisis of 2007-2009 Changed the Expectation Formation Process in the Euro Area?”, Economic Modeling, Vol. 28 (2011), pp. 1808-1814.
  • Frenkel, M. and R. Fendel, Inflation Differentials in the Euro Area: Did the ECB Care?”, Applied Economics, Vol. 41 (2009), pp. 1293-1302.
  • Frenkel, M., C. Pierdzioch and G. Stadtmann, Modeling the Intensity of Foreign Exchange Intervention Activity”, Economics Letters, Vol. 85 (2004), pp. 347-351.

Professional Experience:
  • Dean of WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany – 2005 – 2014
  • Professor of macroeconomics and international economics, WHU – 1993 – present
  • Various visiting professorships 1990 – 2013:
    • Harvard University Summer School, Cambridge (Boston)
    • Emory University, Atlanta
    •  Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
    • Ross School of Business, Michigan University, Ann Arbor
    • Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
    • Sasin School of Management, Bangkok, Thailand
  • Assistant Professor, University of Mainz, Germany – 1988 – 1993
  • Economist, International Monetary Fund; Washington, D.C., USA – 1985 – 1988

  • Habilitation (German post-doctoral degree), University of Mainz, Germany; Thesis topic: “Exchange Rate Volatility: Empirical Evidence and Forward Rate Bias”
  • Doctoral Degree in Economics (Summa cum laude);  Dissertation topic: “Macroeconomics of Protectionism under Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates”
  • Diploma Degree in Economics (Master equivalent), University of Mainz, Germany

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