Olivier Blanchard
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| Born |
December 27, 1948 Amiens, France[1] |
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| Nationality | France |
| Institution | International Monetary Fund |
| Field | Macroeconomics |
| School/tradition | New Keynesian economics |
| Alma mater | MIT |
| Influenced |
Jordi Galí Gilles Saint-Paul Luigi Zingales |
| Information at IDEAS/RePEc | |
Olivier Jean Blanchard (born December 27, 1948) is the chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, a post he has held since September 1, 2008.[2] He was appointed to this position under the tenure of Dominique Strauss-Kahn. He is also the Robert M. Solow Professor of Economics at MIT, though he is now on leave at the IMF. Blanchard is one of the most cited economists in the world, according to IDEAS/RePEc.[3]
Blanchard earned his Bachelor at Paris Dauphine University, and Ph.D. in Economics in 1977 at MIT. He taught at Harvard University between 1977 and 1983, after which time he returned to MIT as a professor.[4] Between 1998 and 2003 Blanchard served as the Chairman of the Economics Department at MIT. He has also been an adviser for the Federal Reserve banks of Boston and New York.
Blanchard has published numerous research papers in the field of macroeconomics, as well as undergraduate and graduate macroeconomics textbooks.
In 1987, together with Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Blanchard demonstrated the importance of monopolistic competition for the aggregate demand multiplier.[5] Most New Keynesian macroeconomic models now assume monopolistic competition for the reasons outlined by them.
He is a fellow and past Council member of the Econometric Society, a past vice president of the American Economic Association, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His current position of service at the International Monetary Fund is as Economic Counsellor and director of Research.[6]
References
- ↑ Olivier Blanchard's CV on his MIT webpage
- ↑ http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2008/int090208a.htm
- ↑ Economist Rankings at IDEAS
- ↑ Asia 21 Bio
- ↑ Blanchard, Olivier Jean; Kiyotaki, Nobuhiro (1987). "Monopolistic Competition and the Effects of Aggregate Demand". American Economic Review 77 (4): 647–666. JSTOR 1814537.
- ↑
External links
- Olivier Blanchard
- Krugman, Paul, "Olivier Blanchard Isn't Very Serious" subtitle: "And that’s a very good thing.", New York Times blog, December 21, 2011, 4:48 pm.
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| Preceded by Simon Johnson |
IMF Chief Economist 2008 – present |
Succeeded by incumbent |
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