Olivier Jean Blanchard Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Olivier Jean Blanchard authored Macroeconomics.

Olivier Jean Blanchard - is the Class of 1941 Professor of Economics at M.I.T. He did his undergraduate work in France, and received his Ph.D. in economics from M.I.T. in 1977. He taught at Harvard from 1977 to 1982 , and since 1983 has taught at M.I.T. where he has twice received the award for best teacher in the Department of Economics.

He has done research on many macroeconomic issues, including the effects of fiscal policy, the role of expectations, price rigidities, speculative bubbles, unemployment in Western Europe, and more recently transition in Eastern Europe. He has done work form many international organizations, including the World Bank, the IMF, the OECD, the European Community, and the EBRD. He has published over 150 articles and edited or written over 15 books, including Lectures on Macroeconomics with Stanley Fischer.

He has been the editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics since 1984. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a fellow of the Econometric Society, and the current Vice President of the American Economic Association.

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