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Citations
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World Ranking
22
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2019 - Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association
  • 1990 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1985 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Olivier J. Blanchard is affiliated with the Peterson Institute for International Economics in the United States. Their academic work spans various aspects of economics, econometrics, and finance, with a focus on monetary policy, fiscal policies, and global financial crises. The main fields of study associated with their research include Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Finance, Music, and Education.

The research topics they have extensively covered include:

  • Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
  • Fiscal Policies and Political Economy
  • Global Financial Crisis and Policies
  • Economic Theory and Policy
  • Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
  • Credit Risk and Financial Regulations

Their recent papers reflect the diversity and depth of their work:

  • "Redesigning EU fiscal rules: from rules to standards" (2021), published in Economic Policy
  • "What caused the US pandemic-era inflation?" (2023), published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "The Portfolio of Economic Policies Needed to Fight Climate Change" (2023), published in Annual Review of Economics
  • "Bad news for the Fed from the Beveridge space" (2022), published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Automatic Stabilizers in a Low-Rate Environment" (2020), published in AEA Papers and Proceedings

Frequent co-authors of Olivier J. Blanchard include:

  • Ben Bernanke
  • Álvaro Leandro
  • Jeromin Zettelmeyer
  • Jean Tirole
  • Christian Gollier

They have published regularly in several venues, notably the SSRN Electronic Journal with twelve publications. Other frequent venues for their work include Commentaire, Economic Policy, Annual Review of Economics, and AEA Papers and Proceedings.

Olivier J. Blanchard has also contributed to the academic literature through book publications. One significant title is Fiscal Policy under Low Interest Rates (2023), published by The MIT Press. Additionally, they have books published by Chronos eBooks and Chronos Verlag eBooks related to educational and musical cultures in Switzerland.

Their scholarly recognition includes several prestigious awards such as:

  • Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association (2019)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1990)
  • Fellows of the Econometric Society (1985)

Best Publications

  • The Dynamic Effects of Aggregate Demand and Supply Disturbances

    Olivier Jean Blanchard;Danny Quah

  • Lectures on Macroeconomics

    Olivier Blanchard;Stanley Fischer

  • Lectures on Macroeconomics

    Olivier Blanchard;Stanley Fischer

  • An Empirical Characterization of the Dynamic Effects of Changes in Government Spending and Taxes on Output

    Olivier Blanchard;Roberto Perotti

  • Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy

    Olivier Blanchard;Giovanni DellAriccia;Paolo Mauro

  • Debt, Deficits, and Finite Horizons

    Olivier J. Blanchard

  • Hysteresis and the European Unemployment Problem

    Olivier J. Blanchard;Lawrence H. Summers

  • The Role of Shocks and Institutions in the Rise of European Unemployment: the Aggregate Evidence

    Olivier Blanchard;Justin Wolfers

  • THE SOLUTION OF LINEAR DIFFERENCE MODELS UNDER RATIONAL EXPECTATIONS

    Olivier Jean Blanchard;Charles M. Kahn

  • Bubbles, Rational Expectations and Financial Markets

    Olivier Blanchard;Mark Watson

  • Hysteresis and the European Unemployment Problem

    Olivier J. Blanchard;Lawrence H. Summers

  • Monopolistic Competition and the Effects of Aggregate Demand

    Olivier Jean Blanchard;Nobuhiro Kiyotaki

  • Federalism With and Without Political Centralization. China versus Russia

    Olivier Blanchard;Andrei Shleifer

  • Macroeconomic Effects of Regulation and Deregulation in Goods and Labor Markets

    Olivier Blanchard;Francesco Giavazzi

  • Real wage rigidities and the new Keynesian model

    Olivier Blanchard;Jordi Gali

  • The Macroeconomic Effects of Oil Price Shocks: Why are the 2000s so different from the 1970s?

    Olivier J Blanchard;Jordi Gali

  • Convergence across States and Regions

    Robert J. Barro;Xavier Sala-i-Martin

  • Federalism With and Without Political Centralization: China versus Russia

    Olivier Blanchard;Andrei Shleifer

  • The Beveridge Curve

    Olivier Jean Blanchard;Peter Diamond

  • The economics of post-communist transition

    Olivier Blanchard

  • Growth Forecast Errors and Fiscal Multipliers

    Olivier J Blanchard;Daniel Leigh

  • Suggestions for a New Set of Fiscal Indicators

    Olivier Jean Blanchard

  • Lectures on Macroeconomics.

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  • Current Account Deficits in the Euro Area: The End of the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle?

    Olivier Blanchard;Francesco Giavazzi

  • The Perverse Effects of Partial Labour Market Reform: Fixed‐Term Contracts in France

    Olivier Blanchard;Augustin Landier

  • An Empirical Characterization of the Dynamic Effects of Changes in Government Spending and Taxes on Output

    Olivier J. Blanchard;Olivier J. Blanchard;Roberto Perotti;Roberto Perotti;Roberto Perotti

  • The Dynamic Effects of Aggregate Demand and Supply Disturbances

    Olivier J. Blanchard;Olivier J. Blanchard;Danny Quah

  • Macroeconomic Effects of Regulation and Deregulation in Goods and Labour Markets

    Olivier J Blanchard;Francesco Giavazzi

Frequent Co-Authors

Stanley Fischer
Stanley Fischer BlackRock (United States)
Lawrence H. Summers
Lawrence H. Summers Harvard University
Francesco Giavazzi
Francesco Giavazzi Bocconi University
Paolo Mauro
Paolo Mauro International Monetary Fund
Giovanni Dell'Ariccia
Giovanni Dell'Ariccia International Monetary Fund
Philippe Aghion
Philippe Aghion London School of Economics and Political Science
Jordi Galí
Jordi Galí Barcelona School of Economics
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Jeffrey D. Sachs Columbia University
Andrew B. Abel
Andrew B. Abel University of Pennsylvania

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