According to Olivier Blanchard, the creation of the IMF Economic Review followed the dual motive of filling the gap between macroeconomic theory and practice as well as reviving the IMF Staff Papers, which had become "too inbred" over time, ranking poorly in listings of academic journals.
In the past, guests on the show included University President Jehuda Reinharz, world renowned economist Olivier Blanchard of MIT, as well as an exclusive 2004 interview with then Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, Gregory Mankiw.
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Google Scholar Citations reports his most-cited works to include his paper on Vector Autoregressions with Olivier Blanchard and his papers on the convergence of Twin Peaked income distributions.
He has also written the foreword for several best selling books including, Social Media ROI (Olivier Blanchard), At Your Service (Frank Eliason), Share This Too (Paul Fabretti), Social ROI (Vincenzo Cosenza), Think Before You Engage (Dave Peck), Smart Business Social Business (Michael Brito), The Hidden Power of Your Customers (Becky Carroll), The Social Customer (Adam Metz), Twitfaced (Jacob Morgan), Social Media Geek-to-Geek (Synopsys).