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olivier blanchard

olivier jean blanchard -lrb- ; born december 27 , 1948 -rrb- is the chief economist at the international monetary fund , a post he has held since september 1 , 2008 .
he was appointed to this position under the tenure of dominique strauss-kahn .
he is also the robert m. solow professor of economics at mit .
on may 14 , 2015 , blanchard notified the imf of his intention to retire .
he will be succeeded by maurice obstfeld .
blanchard is one of the most cited economists in the world , according to ideas/repec .
blanchard earned his first degree at paris dauphine university , and graduated ph.d. in economics in 1977 at mit .
he taught at harvard university between 1977 and 1983 , after which time he returned to mit as a professor .
between 1998 and 2003 blanchard served as the chairman of the economics department at mit .
he has also been an adviser for the federal reserve banks of boston and new york .
blanchard has published numerous research papers in the field of macroeconomics , as well as undergraduate and graduate macroeconomics textbooks .
in 1987 , together with nobuhiro kiyotaki , blanchard demonstrated the importance of monopolistic competition for the aggregate demand multiplier .
most new keynesian macroeconomic models now assume monopolistic competition for the reasons outlined by them .
he is 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 arts and sciences .
his current position of service at the international monetary fund is as economic counsellor and director of research .
