Willem Buiter
Citigroup and Centre for Economic Policy Research
Willem Buiter is Chief Economist of Citigroup. Prior to his appointment at Citigroup, he was professor of European Political Economy at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England (1997-2000) and Chief Economist and Special Adviser to the President at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) (2000-2005). He has held academic appointments at Princeton University, the University of Bristol, Yale University and the University of Cambridge and has been a consultant and advisor to the International Monetary Fund, The World Bank, The Inter-American Development Bank, the EBRD, the European Communities and a number of national governments and government agencies. Since 2005, he is an Advisor to Goldman Sachs International. He has published widely on subjects such as open economy macroeconomics, monetary and exchange rate theory, fiscal policy, social security, economic development and transition economies. He obtained his PhD in Economics from Yale in 1975. He is a CEPR Research Fellow.
Articles by Willem Buiter:
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Greece and the Eurozone: Political leaders should get off their high horses
20 February 2012, 11273 reads
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Making sense of TARGET imbalances
6 September 2011, 20559 reads
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The ‘strong-dollar’ policy of the US
28 June 2011, 15118 reads
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Global growth generators: Moving beyond emerging markets and BRICs
22 April 2011, 14912 reads
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The European fiscal vacuum makes the ECB timid on quantitative and credit easing
8 May 2010, 18610 reads
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The wonderful world of negative nominal interest rates
4 June 2009, 40021 reads
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The global recession has not turned the corner
29 April 2009, 35624 reads
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How much fiscal backing do the key central banks have?
25 March 2009, 11086 reads
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The fiscal hole at the heart of the Eurosystem
25 March 2009, 9821 reads
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Why no quantitative or credit easing in the Eurozone?
24 March 2009, 12151 reads
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Zombie solutions: The Good Bank vs Bad Bank approaches
14 March 2009, 26404 reads
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Regulate financial markets while we still can
9 March 2009, 42331 reads
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Macroeconomics’ crisis of irrelevance
6 March 2009, 49144 reads
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The return of capital controls
20 February 2009, 14639 reads
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Iceland’s banking collapse: Predicable end and lessons for other vulnerable nations
30 October 2008, 80960 reads
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Open Letter to European leaders on Europe’s banking crisis: A call to action
1 October 2008, 79163 reads
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The Paulson Plan: A useful first step but nowhere near enough
25 September 2008, 13083 reads
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Central banks, the financial crisis and the threat of inflation
18 July 2008, 12539 reads
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Subprime winners
13 March 2008, 11189 reads
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Lessons from Northern Rock: How to handle failure
5 March 2008, 13725 reads
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Lessons from Northern Rock: Banking and shadow banking
4 March 2008, 14518 reads
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The dangerous protectionism of Barack Obama
26 February 2008, 57480 reads
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Lessons from the North Atlantic financial crisis
19 December 2007, 13694 reads
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Subprime crisis: What to think about the Bush and Bernake performance
3 September 2007, 11695 reads
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Subprime crisis unfolds: What the Fed should have done instead
18 August 2007, 18166 reads
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Subprime 'crisis': What Central Bankers should do and why
13 August 2007, 49535 reads
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The euro’s inflation test
3 May 2006, 38261 reads
