Willem Buiter

Citigroup and Centre for Economic Policy Research

Willem Buiter is Chief Economist of Citigroup. Prior to his appointment at Citigroup, he was professor of European Political Economy at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England (1997-2000) and Chief Economist and Special Adviser to the President at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) (2000-2005). He has held academic appointments at Princeton University, the University of Bristol, Yale University and the University of Cambridge and has been a consultant and advisor to the International Monetary Fund, The World Bank, The Inter-American Development Bank, the EBRD, the European Communities and a number of national governments and government agencies. Since 2005, he is an Advisor to Goldman Sachs International. He has published widely on subjects such as open economy macroeconomics, monetary and exchange rate theory, fiscal policy, social security, economic development and transition economies. He obtained his PhD in Economics from Yale in 1975. He is a CEPR Research Fellow.

Articles by Willem Buiter:

Greece and the Eurozone: Political leaders should get off their high horses
20 February 2012, 11101 reads
Making sense of TARGET imbalances
6 September 2011, 20031 reads
The ‘strong-dollar’ policy of the US
28 June 2011, 14816 reads
Global growth generators: Moving beyond emerging markets and BRICs
22 April 2011, 14656 reads
The European fiscal vacuum makes the ECB timid on quantitative and credit easing
8 May 2010, 18465 reads
The wonderful world of negative nominal interest rates
4 June 2009, 39824 reads
The global recession has not turned the corner
29 April 2009, 35528 reads
How much fiscal backing do the key central banks have?
25 March 2009, 10934 reads
The fiscal hole at the heart of the Eurosystem
25 March 2009, 9678 reads
Why no quantitative or credit easing in the Eurozone?
24 March 2009, 12013 reads
Zombie solutions: The Good Bank vs Bad Bank approaches
14 March 2009, 26249 reads
Regulate financial markets while we still can
9 March 2009, 42096 reads
Macroeconomics’ crisis of irrelevance
6 March 2009, 48841 reads
The return of capital controls
20 February 2009, 14513 reads
Iceland’s banking collapse: Predicable end and lessons for other vulnerable nations
30 October 2008, 80522 reads
Open Letter to European leaders on Europe’s banking crisis: A call to action
1 October 2008, 78611 reads
The Paulson Plan: A useful first step but nowhere near enough
25 September 2008, 12998 reads
Central banks, the financial crisis and the threat of inflation
18 July 2008, 12441 reads
Subprime winners
13 March 2008, 11113 reads
Lessons from Northern Rock: How to handle failure
5 March 2008, 13635 reads
Lessons from Northern Rock: Banking and shadow banking
4 March 2008, 14406 reads
The dangerous protectionism of Barack Obama
26 February 2008, 57287 reads
Lessons from the North Atlantic financial crisis
19 December 2007, 13573 reads
Subprime crisis: What to think about the Bush and Bernake performance
3 September 2007, 11615 reads
Subprime crisis unfolds: What the Fed should have done instead
18 August 2007, 17988 reads
Subprime 'crisis': What Central Bankers should do and why
13 August 2007, 49242 reads
The euro’s inflation test
3 May 2006, 38136 reads

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