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, 15423 reads
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Fiscal consolidation: At what speed?
3 May 2013, 31590 reads
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The world economy: Cliffs avoided, mountains ahead
13 February 2013, 19589 reads
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The multilateral approach to capital controls
11 December 2012, 14734 reads
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Lessons from Latvia
15 June 2012, 12975 reads
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The logic and fairness of Greece’s programme
23 March 2012, 10828 reads
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Blanchard on 2011’s four hard truths
23 December 2011, 21479 reads
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The future of macroeconomic policy: Nine tentative conclusions
23 March 2011, 19180 reads
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The state of the world economy
5 November 2010, 10282 reads
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The two rebalancing acts
12 October 2010, 11247 reads
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Ten commandments for fiscal adjustment in advanced economies
28 June 2010, 15957 reads
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Rethinking macro policy
16 February 2010, 25878 reads
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The price of oil and the macroeconomy
7 December 2009, 37719 reads
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Fiscal Policy for the Crisis
12 February 2009, 54945 reads
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Fixing France’s job market
20 September 2007, 14688 reads
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The ECB’s path not taken
1 December 2005, 12106 reads
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The divergent paths of the US and Europe
10 June 2003, 13004 reads
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