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Olivier J. Blanchard

Olivier J. Blanchard is Economic Counselor and Director of the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund. He is the author of Macroeconomics, among other books, and coauthor of Lectures on Macroeconomics (MIT Press).

Titles by This Author

East-West Migration

The Alternatives
By Richard Layard, Olivier J. Blanchard, Rudiger Dornbusch and Paul Krugman


This sequel to Reform in Eastern Europe reports on one of the most pressing issues for countries with economies in transition and their neighbors. Focusing on the problem of East-West migration, the authors clearly delineate European free trade and capital flows as a means of raising productivity and increasing worker stability in the East and of reducing income gaps between countries.

Post-Communist Reform

Pain and Progress
By Olivier J. Blanchard, Maxim Boycko, Marek Dabrowski, Rudiger Dornbusch, Richard Layard and Andrei Shleifer

In their earlier report, Reform in Eastern Europe, the WIDER group assessed the main building blocks of a successful transition in Eastern Europe: stabilization, price liberalization, privatization, and restructuring. For the last three years this group of leading economists has been heavily involved in the reform process. In this new report, they take stock, returning to the original themes and assessing progress and prospects, particularly in Russia.Stabilization in the major Central European countries was done very much by the book.

Reform in Eastern Europe

By Olivier J. Blanchard, Rudiger Dornbusch, Paul Krugman, Richard Layard and Lawrence H. Summers

How can the new governments of Eastern Europe succeed in moving from centrally planned to freemarket economies? This incisive report identifies the major policy choices to be made and discusses what will work and what will not.

Lectures on Macroeconomics

By Olivier J. Blanchard and Stanley Fischer

Lectures on Macroeconomics provides the first comprehensive description and evaluation of macroeconomic theory in many years. While the authors' perspective is broad, they clearly state their assessment of what is important and what is not as they present the essence of macroeconomic theory today.

Titles by This Editor

In the Wake of the Crisis

Leading Economists Reassess Economic Policy
Edited by Olivier J. Blanchard, David Romer, Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz

In 2011, the International Monetary Fund invited prominent economists and economic policy makers to consider the brave new world of the post-crisis global economy. The result is a book that captures the state of macroeconomic thinking at a transformational moment.

Restoring Europe's Prosperity

Macroeconomic Papers from the Centre for European Policy Studies
By Rudiger Dornbusch
Edited by Olivier J. Blanchard, Rudiger Dornbusch and Richard Layard

Restoring Europe's Prosperity is the first annual produced by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), an independent research institution which focuses on the major medium- and long-term issues facing the European community and Western Europe both internally and internationally.

NBER Macroeconomics Annual 1993

Edited by Olivier J. Blanchard and Stanley Fischer

This is the eighth in a series of annuals from the National Bureau of Economic Research that are designed to stimulate research on problems in applied economics, to bring frontier theoretical developments to a wider audience, and to accelerate the interaction between analytical and empirical research in macroeconomics.

Olivier Blanchard and Stanley Fischer are both Professors of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

NBER Macroeconomics Annual 1992

Edited by Olivier J. Blanchard and Stanley Fischer

This is the seventh in a series of annuals from the National Bureau of Economic Research that are designed to stimulate research on problems in applied economics, to bring frontier theoretical developments to a wider audience, and to accelerate the interaction between analytical and empirical research in macroeconomics.

Olivier Blanchard and Stanley Fischer are both Professors of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

NBER Macroeconomics Annual 1991

Edited by Olivier J. Blanchard and Stanley Fischer

This is the sixth in a series of annuals from the National Bureau of Economic Research that are designed to stimulate research on problems in applied economics, to bring frontier theoretical developments to a wider audience, and to accelerate the interaction between analytical and empirical research in macroeconomics.

NBER Macroeconomics Annual 1990

Edited by Olivier J. Blanchard and Stanley Fischer

This is the fifth in a series of annuals from the National Bureau of Economic Research that are designed to stimulate research on problems in applied economics, to bring frontier theoretical developments to a wider audience, and to accelerate the interaction between analytical and empirical research in macroeconomics.

Olivier Blanchard and Stanley Fischer are both Professors of Economics at MIT.

NBER Macroeconomics Annual 1989

Edited by Olivier J. Blanchard and Stanley Fischer

This is the fourth in a series of annuals from the National Bureau of Economic Research that are designed to stimulate research on problems in applied economics, to bring frontier theoretical developments to a wider audience, and to accelerate the interaction between analytical and empirical research in macroeconomics.