Olivier Blanchard
IMF, on leave from MIT
Olivier Blanchard is the IMF's Chief Economist (Economic Counsellor and Director, Research Department) and Professor of Economics at MIT, having taught previously at Harvard. His research interests are in macroeconomics, including a wide set of issues that range from the role of monetary policy to the nature of speculative bubbles, to the nature of the labour market and the determinants of unemployment, to transition in former communist countries. He is the author of many books and articles, including two textbooks in macroeconomics, one at the graduate level with Stanley Fischer and one at the undergraduate level. He is a Fellow and Council member of the Econometric Society, a past vice president of the American Economic Association, a member of the American Academy of Sciences, and a member of the French Economic Advisory Council to the French Prime Minister. He obtained his PhD in Economics from MIT in 1977.
Articles by Olivier Blanchard:
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Rethinking macroeconomic policy
9 May 2013, 17010 reads
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Fiscal consolidation: At what speed?
3 May 2013, 33436 reads
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The world economy: Cliffs avoided, mountains ahead
13 February 2013, 19639 reads
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The multilateral approach to capital controls
11 December 2012, 14809 reads
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Lessons from Latvia
15 June 2012, 13016 reads
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The logic and fairness of Greece’s programme
23 March 2012, 10846 reads
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Blanchard on 2011’s four hard truths
23 December 2011, 21521 reads
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The future of macroeconomic policy: Nine tentative conclusions
23 March 2011, 19243 reads
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The state of the world economy
5 November 2010, 10302 reads
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The two rebalancing acts
12 October 2010, 11267 reads
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Ten commandments for fiscal adjustment in advanced economies
28 June 2010, 15991 reads
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Rethinking macro policy
16 February 2010, 25933 reads
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The price of oil and the macroeconomy
7 December 2009, 37768 reads
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Fiscal Policy for the Crisis
12 February 2009, 54988 reads
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Fixing France’s job market
20 September 2007, 14704 reads
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The ECB’s path not taken
1 December 2005, 12116 reads
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The divergent paths of the US and Europe
10 June 2003, 13061 reads
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