Olivier Blanchard is the Fred Bergsten Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute and Robert Solow Professor of Economics Emeritus at MIT. He spent most of his career at MIT, but moved to Washington in 2008 to be the IMF's Chief Economist (Economic Counsellor and Director, Research Department), a post he retired from in 2015. His research interests are in macroeconomics, including a wide set of issues that range from the role of monetary policy to the nature of speculative bubbles, to the nature of the labour market and the determinants of unemployment, to transition in former communist countries, to the global financial crisis. He is the author of many books and articles, including two textbooks in macroeconomics, one at the graduate level with Stanley Fischer and one at the undergraduate level. He is a past chair of the MIT economics department, 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 Sciences.

Latest posts:

• Are Capital Flows Expansionary or Contractionary? It Depends What Kind
• Greece: Past Critiques and the Path Forward
• Behind the News in Greece and China, Moderate Growth Continues
• Greece: A Credible Deal Will Require Difficult Decisions By All Sides
• Ten Take Aways from the “Rethinking Macro Policy: Progress or Confusion?”
• Four Forces Facing the Global Economy
• Contours of Macroeconomic Policy in the Future
• The Elusive Quest for International Policy Cooperation
• Global Economy Faces Strong and Complex Cross Currents
• Seven Questions About The Recent Oil Price Slump
• Challenges Ahead: Managing Spillovers
• Understanding Spillovers
• Legacies, Clouds and Uncertainties
• The Slow Recovery Continues
• As Demand Improves, Time to Focus More on Supply
• Recovery Strengthening, but Much Work Remains
• International Policy Coordination: The Loch Ness Monster
• Monetary Policy Will Never Be the Same
• The IMF Annual Research Conference: Economics of Crises―Past Experiences and Present Travails
•  Advanced Economies Strengthening, Emerging Market Economies Weakening
• Global Outlook—Still Three Speeds, But Slower
• Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy
• The World’s Three-Speed Economic Recovery
• We May Have Avoided the Cliffs, But We Still Face High Mountains
• Jobs, Jobs, Jobs. Getting the Labor Markets Working Again
• Global Economy: Some Bad News and Some Hope
• World Faces Weak Economic Recovery
• Lessons from Latvia
• Mediocre Growth, High Risks, and The Long Road Ahead
• The Logic and Fairness of Greece’s Program
• Driving the Global Economy with the Brakes On
• 2011 in Review: Four Hard Truths
• Central Banks, Financial Regulators, and the Quest for Financial Stability: 2011 IMF Annual Research Conference
• Strong Policy Action—The Essence of Restoring Global Economic Hope
• Global Growth Hits a Soft Patch
• What I Learnt in Rio: Discussing Ways to Manage Capital Flows
• Global Recovery Strengthens, Tensions Heighten
• The Future of Macroeconomic Policy: Nine Tentative Conclusions
• Rewriting the Macroeconomists’ Playbook in the Wake of the Crisis
• Two-speed Global Recovery Continues
• Exploring Economic Policy Frontiers After the Crisis: 2010 IMF Research Conference
• How to Bake a (Cr)edible Medium-term Fiscal Pie
• The Two Rebalancing Acts
• A Problem Shared Is a Problem Halved: The G-20’s “Mutual Assessment Process”
• Global Economy: Continuing Recovery But Clouds on the Horizon
• Ten Commandments for Fiscal Adjustment in Advanced Economies
• World Faces Serious New Economic Challenges
• Thinking Beyond the Crisis: Themes from the IMF’s 10th Annual Research Conference
• Sudden Financial Arrest and Much More: IMF’s Annual Research Conference Gets Under Way