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Olivier Blanchard

Books

 I have recently published two books.

The Economics of Post Communist Transition. 1997. 

Macroeconomics.

The book has been translated into a number a number of languages.The Italian site has a nice set of simulation packages.

I am in the process of writing a new book on unemployment. For the moment, the draft is in the form of lecture notes.

A general Framework is developed in the first three notes:

Unemployment and real wages.

Unemployment, capital accumulation and real wages.

Flows, bargaining, and unemployment.

Applications to a number of issues are developed in:

Employment protection and unemployment.

Relative demand shifts and unemployment.

Technological change, productivity and unemployment.

Unemployment benefits and unemployment.

The plight of the long term unemployed.

The wage equation.