Award of Doctorate 鈥楬onoris Causa鈥� and Address of Professor Olivier Blanchard on 鈥楻eform of EU Fiscal Rules鈥�
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Award of Doctorate 鈥楬onoris Causa鈥� and Address of Professor听Olivier Blanchard听on
鈥楻eform of EU Fiscal Rules鈥�
罢丑别听黑料科 of Economics and Business听organizes on听Thursday 5 May 2022听补迟听18:00, in the听Amphitheater 鈥�Leonidas Zervas鈥� of the National Research Foundation in Athens, the award ceremony of an听Honorary Doctorate of the Department of Economics, of the School of Economics, to Professor,
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OLIVIER BLANCHARD
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The award ceremony will conclude with a lecture by Professor Blanchard on
Reform of EU Fiscal Rules
Olivier Blanchard is the C. Fred Bergsten Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Robert M. Solow Professor of Economics emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).听
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A citizen of France, Blanchard has spent most of his professional life in the United States. 听After obtaining his PhD in economics from MIT in 1977, he taught at Harvard University and returned to MIT in 1982. He was chair of the economics department from 1998 to 2003. In 2008, he took a leave of absence to serve as economic counsellor and director of the research department at the International Monetary Fund where he stayed until 2015. He then joined the Peterson Institute.
Blanchard has worked on a wide set of macroeconomic issues, including the role of monetary and fiscal policy, speculative bubbles, the labor market and determinants of unemployment, economic transition in former communist countries, and the nature of the Global Financial Crisis. In the process, he has worked with numerous countries and international organizations.
Blanchard is the author of many books and articles, including two textbooks on macroeconomics, one at the graduate level with Stanley Fischer and the other at the undergraduate level. He is a past editor of the听Quarterly Journal of Economics听and the听NBER Macroeconomics Annual听and founding editor of听American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. He is a fellow and former Council member of the Econometric Society, a past president of the American Economic Association, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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