Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund
In office 1 September 2008 – 8 September 2015
President
Dominique Strauss-Kahn Christine Lagarde
Preceded by
Simon Johnson
Succeeded by
Maurice Obstfeld
Personal details
Born
Olivier Jean Blanchard
(1948-12-27) 27 December 1948 (age 75) Amiens, France
Education
ESCP Business School (BA) Paris Dauphine University (MA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Academic career
Institution
Peterson Institute for International Economics (since 2015) International Monetary Fund (2008–2015) Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Field
Macroeconomics
School or tradition
New Keynesian economics
Doctoral advisor
Stanley Fischer[1]
Doctoral students
Fumio Hayashi Nobuhiro Kiyotaki Roland Bénabou[2] Michael C. Burda[3] Ricardo J. Caballero[4] Jordi Galí[5] Anil Kashyap[6] Gilles Saint-Paul[7] Janice Eberly[8] Charles I. Jones[9] David Laibson[10] Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas[11] Robert Shimer[12] Augustin Landier[13] Justin Wolfers[14][15] Thomas Philippon[16]
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
Olivier Jean Blanchard (French:[blɑ̃ʃaʁ]; born December 27, 1948)[17] is a French economist and professor who currently serves as the Robert M. Solow Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and as the C. Fred Bergsten Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.[18] He was the chief economist at the International Monetary Fund from September 1, 2008, to September 8, 2015.[19][20][21] Blanchard was appointed to the position under the tenure of Dominique Strauss-Kahn; he was succeeded by Maurice Obstfeld.[22] According to IDEAS/RePEc, he is one of the most cited economists in the world.[23]
Blanchard has also authored an undergraduate macroeconomics textbook, appearing so far in eight editions, which is one of the most widely used economics books at the undergraduate level, and in 1989 a graduate-level textbook (together with Stanley Fischer), which was prominent in its time.
^Blanchard, Olivier (1977). Two essays on economic fluctuations (Ph.D.). MIT. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
^Benabou, Roland Jean-Marc (1986). Optimal price dynamics, speculation and search under inflation (Ph.D.). MIT. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
^Burda, Michael C. "CV" (PDF). Humboldt University of Berlinn. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 February 2017. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
^Caballero, Ricardo J. (1988). The Stochastic Behavior of Consumption and Savings(PDF) (Ph.D.). MIT. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
^Galí, Jordi (1989). Essays on macroeconomics (Ph.D.). MIT. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
^Kashyap, A. K. (1989). Price setting and investment : models and evidence (Ph.D.). MIT. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
^Saint-Paul, Gilles (1990). Essays on labor markets and macro-economic activity (Ph.D.). MIT. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
^Eberly, Janice Caryl (1991). Durable goods and transactions costs : theory and evidence (Ph.D.). MIT. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
^Jones, Charles I. (1993). Time Series Tests of Endogenous Growth Models (Ph.D.). MIT. hdl:1721.1/12701. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
^Laibson, David Isaac (1994). Hyperbolic Discounting and Consumption(PDF) (Ph.D.). MIT. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
^Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier (1996). Essays on exchange rates, and consumption (Ph.D.). MIT. hdl:1721.1/10830. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
^Shimer, Robert (1996). Essays in search theory (Ph.D.). MIT. hdl:1721.1/10832. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
^Landier, Augustin (2001). Essays on entrepreneurship, venture capital and innovation(PDF) (Ph.D.). MIT. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
^Wolfers, Justin. "CV" (PDF). NBER. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
^"RePEc Genealogy page for Justin Wolfers". RePEc Genealogy. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
^Philippon, Thomas (2003). Three essays in macroeconomics(PDF) (Ph.D.). MIT. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
^"Olivier Blanchard's CV", Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Economics, nd, retrieved 3 October 2015
^"Olivier Blanchard Contact Information". Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Economics. nd. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
^"Blanchard Sees Global Economy Weathering Financial Storm", International Monetary Fund, 2 September 2008
^Pearlstein, Steven (2 October 2015). "The smartest economist you've never heard of". Washington Post. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
^"IMF Economic Counsellor and Director of Research Olivier Blanchard To Retire from the Fund" (International Monetary Fund; May 14, 2015).
^IMF (20 July 2015). "IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde Appoints Maurice Obstfeld as Economic Counsellor and Director of the IMF's Research Department". Retrieved 20 July 2015.
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high but never too low. The paper was a building block for work by OlivierBlanchard and Nobuhiro Kiyotaki on aggregate-demand externalities and for work...
are sometimes not very informative about parameters of interest". OlivierBlanchard quips that "multicollinearity is God's will, not a problem with OLS";...
downturns and have slower recoveries. The chief economist of the IMF, Dr. OlivierBlanchard, stated that the percentage of workers laid off for long stints has...
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