Olivier Blanchard | |
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Olivier Blanchard October 8, 2008 IMF
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Born |
Amiens, France |
December 27, 1948
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 |
Charles Wyplosz Takatoshi Ito Fumio Hayashi Edward B. Montgomery Woo Wing Thye Jeffrey Miron Diane Coyle Danny Quah Nobuhiro Kiyotaki Laurence Ball Michael C. Burda Ricardo J. Caballero Takeo Hoshi Jordi Galí Gary Loveman Christoper Ragan Andrea Ichino Gilles Saint-Paul Janice Eberly Eduardo Engel Roberto Perotti Charles I. Jones David Laibson Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas Robert Shimer Justin Wolfers 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 the Robert M. Solow Professor of Economics 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 first degree at Paris Dauphine University. 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. 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.