Olivier Blanchard
| Olivier Blanchard | |
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Olivier Blanchard October 8, 2008 IMF
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| Born |
December 27, 1948 Amiens, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Institution |
Peterson Institute for International Economics (since 2015) International Monetary Fund (2008-2015) Harvard University MIT |
| Field | Macroeconomics |
| School or tradition |
New Keynesian economics |
| Alma mater |
MIT Paris Dauphine University |
| Doctoral advisor |
Stanley Fischer |
| Doctoral students |
Fumio Hayashi Nobuhiro Kiyotaki Laurence Ball Michael C. Burda Ricardo J. Caballero Takeo Hoshi Jordi Galí Andrea Ichino Gilles Saint-Paul Janice Eberly Roberto Perotti Charles I. Jones David Laibson Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas Robert Shimer Augustin Landier Thomas Philippon |
| Influenced | Luigi Zingales |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Olivier Jean Blanchard (French: [blɑ̃ʃaʁ]; born December 27, 1948) is a French economist, professor and Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He was the chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, from September 1, 2008 to October 2015. He was appointed to this position under the tenure of Dominique Strauss-Kahn. He is also Robert M. Solow Professor of Economics emeritus at MIT. At the IMF, he was succeeded by Maurice Obstfeld.
Blanchard is one of the most cited economists in the world, according to IDEAS/RePEc.
Blanchard graduated from ESCP Europe in 1973 and also earned a DES in economics from Paris-Nanterre. He obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 1977. He taught at Harvard University between 1977 and 1983, after which time he returned to MIT as a professor. Between 1998 and 2003 Blanchard served as the Chairman of the Economics Department at MIT.
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. Most New Keynesian macroeconomic models now assume monopolistic competition for the reasons outlined by them.
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