Olivier Blanchard’s Greatest Hits
IMF Blog, August 31, 2015
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- Authors: All Sides
- Published: August 31, 2015
Overview
- Publication title: Olivier Blanchard’s Greatest Hits
- Topic header on page: Financial crisis management
- Publication date: August 31, 2015
- Context: A curated selection of Olivier Blanchard’s most read and talked-about blogs for iMFdirect, compiled to mark his departure as IMF Chief Economist.
- Tone: Described as sharp, frank, intellectual, creative, and honest; Blanchard is characterized as “half economist, half artist.”
Collected posts (as listed on the page)
- Greece: Past Critiques and the Path Forward
- Greece: A Credible Deal Will Require Difficult Decisions By All Sides
- Ten Take Aways from the “Rethinking Macro Policy: Progress or Confusion?”
- Contours of Macroeconomic Policy in the Future
- Seven Questions About The Recent Oil Price Slump
- Monetary Policy Will Never Be the Same
- The IMF Annual Research Conference: Economics of Crises―Past Experiences and Present Travails
- Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy
- Jobs, Jobs, Jobs. Getting the Labor Markets Working Again
- Lessons from Latvia
- The Logic and Fairness of Greece’s Program
- 2011 in Review: Four Hard Truths
- Central Banks, Financial Regulators, and the Quest for Financial Stability: 2011 IMF Annual Research Conference
- What I Learnt in Rio: Discussing Ways to Manage Capital Flows
- The Future of Macroeconomic Policy: Nine Tentative Conclusions
- Rewriting the Macroeconomists’ Playbook in the Wake of the Crisis
- Exploring Economic Policy Frontiers After the Crisis: 2010 IMF Research Conference
- How to Bake a (Cr)edible Medium-term Fiscal Pie
- Ten Commandments for Fiscal Adjustment in Advanced Economies
- Thinking Beyond the Crisis: Themes from the IMF’s 10th Annual Research Conference
Themes and implications highlighted by the compilation
- Persistent focus on crisis-era macroeconomic policy and financial stability.
- Recurrent engagement with country-specific crises, notably Greece and Latvia.
- Attention to labor markets and job creation as central to post-crisis recovery.
- Examination of monetary policy transformations in the wake of the crisis.
- Engagement with fiscal policy design, including medium-term fiscal frameworks and principles for adjustment.
- Active participation in and synthesis of IMF research conferences on crises and policy frontiers.
- Reflections on capital flow management and commodity price shocks (oil price slump).
Additional note
- The page also references an interview with Blanchard.
Source: https://www.imf.org/en/blogs/articles/2015/08/31/olivier-blanchards-greatest-hits
References
- Greece: Past Critiques and the Path Forward
- Greece: A Credible Deal Will Require Difficult Decisions By All Sides
- Ten Take Aways from the “Rethinking Macro Policy: Progress or Confusion?”
- Contours of Macroeconomic Policy in the Future
- Seven Questions About The Recent Oil Price Slump
- Monetary Policy Will Never Be the Same
- The IMF Annual Research Conference: Economics of Crises―Past Experiences and Present Travails
- Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy
- Jobs, Jobs, Jobs. Getting the Labor Markets Working Again
- Lessons from Latvia
- The Logic and Fairness of Greece’s Program
- 2011 in Review: Four Hard Truths
- Central Banks, Financial Regulators, and the Quest for Financial Stability: 2011 IMF Annual Research Conference
- What I Learnt in Rio: Discussing Ways to Manage Capital Flows
- The Future of Macroeconomic Policy: Nine Tentative Conclusions
- Rewriting the Macroeconomists’ Playbook in the Wake of the Crisis
- Exploring Economic Policy Frontiers After the Crisis: 2010 IMF Research Conference
- How to Bake a (Cr)edible Medium-term Fiscal Pie
- Ten Commandments for Fiscal Adjustment in Advanced Economies
- Thinking Beyond the Crisis: Themes from the IMF’s 10th Annual Research Conference
- interview with Blanchard