Rudi Dornbusch

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Rudi Dornbusch
Graduate Institute of International Studies (BA)
Doctoral
advisor
Robert Mundell[1]
Doctoral
students
Andrew Abel[2]
Pedro Aspe
Eliana Cardoso
José De Gregorio
Jeffrey Frankel
Francesco Giavazzi
Ilan Goldfajn[3]
Paul Krugman[4]
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Rüdiger Dornbusch (June 8, 1942 – July 25, 2002) was a German economist who worked in the United States for most of his career.

Early life and education

Dornbusch was born in

Graduate Institute of International Studies in 1966.[8] He went on to graduate study at the University of Chicago, receiving an MA in economics in 1966, and a PhD in economics in 1971.[8]

Career

He lectured briefly at the

MIT, where he was appointed an associate professor in the Department of Economics, and was made a full professor in 1984.[8] He stayed at MIT until his death in 2002.[9]

Throughout his career his main focus was on

Quarterly Journal of Economics
.

Together with Stanley Fischer he also wrote widely used undergraduate textbooks.

He died, aged sixty, from cancer.[11]

Major works

  • Macroeconomics, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1990 (with S. Fischer) 5th ed.
  • International Economic Policy: Theory and Evidence, Johns Hopkins University Press, (edited with J. A. Frenkel.)
  • Open Economy Macroeconomics, Basic Books, New York, 1980.
  • Inflation, Debt and Indexation, MIT Press, 1983. (ed. with M. H. Simonsen.)
  • Financial Policies and the World Capital Market, University of Chicago Press, 1983. (ed. with P. Aspe and M. Obstfeld.)
  • Economics, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1987, 2nd ed. (with S. Fischer and R. Schmalensee)
  • Restoring Europe's Prosperity, (with O. Blanchard and R. Layard) MIT Press, 1986.
  • Dollars, Debts and Deficits, MIT Press, 1987.
  • Macroeconomics and Finance, (Essays in Honor of Franco Modigliani) MIT Press, 1987, (Ed. with S. Fischer)
  • The Political Economy of Argentina, 1946–83, Macmillan, 1988. (ed. with G. diTella)
  • Exchange Rates and Inflation MIT Press, 1988.
  • Stopping High Inflation (ed. with M. Bruno, G. diTella and S. Fischer), MIT Press, 1988.
  • The Open Economy: Tools for Policy Makers in Developing Countries (ed. with Leslie Helmers) Oxford University Press, 1988.
  • Public Debt Management: Theory and History (ed. with Mario Draghi) Cambridge University Press, 1990.
  • Reform in Eastern Europe (jointly with O. Blanchard et al.) MIT Press, 1991.
  • Global Warming: Economic Policy Responses (ed. with J. Poterba) MIT Press, 1991.
  • The Macroeconomics of Populism in Latin America (ed. with S. Edwards). MIT Press, 1991.
  • East–West Migration (with Layard, Blanchard, and Krugman) MIT Press, 1992.
  • Postwar Economic Reconstruction and Lessons for the East Today (ed. with W. Nolling and R. Layard) MIT Press, 1993
  • Stabilization, Debt, and Reform: Policy Analysis For Developing Countries, Prentice Hall, 1993.
  • Reform, Recovery and Growth (ed. with S. Edwards) University of Chicago Press, 1994.
  • Financial Opening: Policy Lessons for Korea, (edited with Y. C. Park), Korea Institute of Finance, International Center For Economics Growth, 1995.
  • Keys to Prosperity: Free Markets, Sound Money, and a Bit of Luck, MIT Press, 2000.

Honors and distinctions

References

  1. ^ Rudi Dornbusch by Stanley Fischer - Project Syndicate
  2. MIT
    . Retrieved 22 October 2016.
  3. . Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  4. ^ Paul Krugman (May 24, 2018). "Turmoil for Turkey's Trump". The New York Times.
  5. ^ Capital mobility and monetary policy under fixed and flexible exchange rates.
  6. ^ Essays on expectations and exchange rate volatility
  7. ^ The instability of the prewar economy reconsidered : a critical examination of historical macroeconomic data.
  8. ^ a b c d "MIT international economist Rudiger Dornbusch dies at 60". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2002-07-26. Retrieved 2024-01-15.
  9. ^ "Rudiger Dornbusch". The Economist. 10 August 2002. Retrieved 5 August 2013.
  10. ^ Dornbusch, R. (1976). "Exchange Rate Expectations and Monetary Policy". Journal of International Economics 6 (3): 231–244.
  11. ^ "MIT international economist Rudiger Dornbusch dies at 60". 26 July 2002.
  12. ^ "Bernhard Harms Prize". Kiel Institute. Retrieved 5 August 2013.
  13. ^ Top 100 Economists in the World

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