Olivier Blanchard

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Olivier Blanchard (2008)

Olivier Jean Blanchard (born December 27, 1948 in Amiens ) is a French economist. He is a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is considered a New Keynesian . Between 2008 and 2015, Blanchard was Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund . After the financial crisis, Blanchard made a contribution to reforming macroeconomic thinking, such as the effects of austerity policies in Greece.

Life

He completed his first years of study until 1972 at the University of Paris-Dauphine in France. In 1973 he got his diploma from today's ESCP Europe . In 1977 he received a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After teaching at Harvard University from 1977 to 1982 , he returned to MIT to teach and conduct research as a professor of macroeconomics . In 1990 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Between 1998 and 2003, Blanchard was chairman of economics at MIT. He is also an advisor to the Federal Reserve Banks in Boston (since 1995) and New York (since 2004). From 1997 to 2008 he was a member of the French Council for Economic Analysis (“Economic Wise Men”). Blanchard has been Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund since September 2008 . At the beginning of 2010, Blanchard spoke out in the policy paper Rethink economic policy again in favor of a change of course towards a countercyclical fiscal policy in order to compensate for inevitable market instabilities.

Since 2016 Thomson Reuters has counted him among the favorites for an Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics (“ Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates ”) due to the number of his citations . In 2018 he was President of the American Economic Association .

research

Blanchard has published numerous macroeconomic research articles and studies and authored textbooks (including Macroeconomics , one of the world's best-selling textbooks on the subject). His research areas range from the effects of fiscal policy on economic development and the creation of speculative bubbles to unemployment in Western Europe and the introduction of the market economy in Eastern Europe.

Private life

Blanchard has French citizenship and a green card . He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife Noelle Golinelli . The couple has three daughters.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olivier Blanchard's curriculum vitae on his MIT website ( Memento from August 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Nicole Walter: The silent renaissance of Keynes. In: Handelsblatt. No. 049, March 10, 2008, p. 9.
  3. ↑ IMF: Blanchard Sees Global Economy Weathering Financial Storm. September 2, 2008.
  4. ↑ Who will be the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics? FAZ, October 5, 2018, archived copy ( Memento from October 6, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Olivier Blanchard - Lecture Series
  6. ↑ Olivier Blanchard, David R. Johnson: Macroeconomics . Global Edition. 6th edition. Pearson Education, Boston 2013, ISBN 978-0-273-76633-9 , pp. 4 (English).
  7. ↑ Anciens membres. cae-eco.fr, accessed on November 5, 2014 (French).
  8. ↑ Olivier Blanchard, Giovanni dell'Ariccia, Paolo Mauro: Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy . In: Journal of Money, Credit & Banking . tape 42 . Wiley-Blackwell, September 2, 2010, ISSN  0022-2879 , pp. 199–215 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1538-4616.2010.00334.x (English).
  9. ↑ Robert von Heusinger: The unheard of deed of Monsieur Blanchard. ( Memento from April 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: Frankfurter Rundschau. February 28, 2010.
  10. ↑ Web of Science Predicts 2016 Nobel Prize Winners. In: ipscience.thomsonreuters.com. September 21, 2016, archived from the original on September 21, 2016 ; accessed on September 21, 2016 (English).
  11. ↑ a b CURRICULUM VITAE. Massachusetts Institute of Technology , March 14, 2014, accessed October 13, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Blanchard, Olivier
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blanchard, Olivier Jean (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French economist, professor of economics at MIT
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Amiens