The European Central Bank s chief economist, Otmar Issing, may not be scheduled to retire until May 2006.

Writing on the World Bank blog, Justin Yifu Lin, World Bank s chief economist, argued

The European Central Bank s chief economist, Otmar Issing, may not be scheduled to retire until May 2006. But behind the scenes, maneuvering and politicking over his replacement are already in full swing.

The World Bank s chief economist, Justin Lin, openly supports it to speed up structural change in developing nations.

This is a point that Morgan Stanley s chief economist Stephen Roach makes in recent new book, The Next Asia.

A commission headed by Sir John Vickers, the Oxford economist and former Bank of England chief economist, wants banks retail operations to be ring fenced from riskier trading and investment banking businesses.

Moreover, ECB chief economist Otmar Issing predicts long term interest rates would go up not down as inflationary expectations increased.

Economists around the world have taken note of the arrival of Raghuram Rajan as chief economist in the finance ministry.

Rajan is a superstar academic researcher, a brilliant writer on political economy, and a former chief economist for the IMF.

As the BIS s chief economist in the 1930 s, Jacobsson knew how to use economic analysis as a basis for influence.

This is where European governments (along with their economist advisors) have kept missing the boat.

Issing, the ECB s chief economist in its formative years, knows more about how a monetary union operates in practice than any man alive.

As the World Bank s Chief Economist under Wolfensohn, I had argued that failing to deal with corruption risked undermining growth and poverty alleviation.

It happened again on February 11 Democrats...lit into President Bush s chief economist yesterday for his laudatory statements on the movement of U.S. jobs abroad....

In 2000, Stewart Mayhew, Assistant Chief Economist at the US Securities and Exchange Commission s Office of Economic Analysis, surveyed the extensive literature on this topic.

As early as August 2005, Raghuram Rajan, the IMF s Economic Counselor (chief economist) at the time, was warning of weaknesses in the US financial markets.

It happened again on February 11 Democrats...lit into President Bush s chief economist yesterday for his laudatory statements on the movement of U.S. jobs abroad....

The chief point of intersection between the European and US approaches is major banks.

Nearly 12 years ago, Jim O Neill, then the chief economist for Goldman Sachs, coined the term BRIC to describe the emerging markets of Brazil, Russia, India, and China.

As the World Bank s chief economist and senior vice president, I was in the middle of the conflagration and the debates about its causes and the appropriate policy responses.

In 1999, The Economist labeled Germany the sick man of the euro a monument of European sclerosis, with low growth and high unemployment.

NEW HAVEN The Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund, Olivier Blanchard, and several IMF economists have proposed in a recent paper that governments should offer what they call recession insurance.

Under its capable managing director, Dominique Strauss Kahn, and distinguished chief economist, Olivier Blanchard, it has been a voice for sanity on global fiscal stimulus in the midst of much cacophony.

Having served as the IMF s chief economist from 2001 to 2003, I am familiar with the Fund s need to walk a tightrope between building investor confidence and shaking up complacent policymakers.

Since November 2011, Italy has been led not by a politician, but by an academic economist and a former European Union commissioner, Mario Monti.

Indeed, even back in 1973, there was substantial support for a non European candidate, Roberto Alemann, the distinguished economist and former Argentine economics minister.

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Larry Summers, when he was chief economist at the World Bank, once said that, It may well be that the highest return on investment in the developing world is in girls' education.

A few months ago, Olivier Blanchard, the International Monetary Fund s chief economist, had already criticized his colleagues and policymakers in advanced countries for systematically underestimating the recessionary impact of fiscal consolidation programs.

It is telling, for example, that Simon Johnson, the IMF s chief economist during 2007 2008, has turned into one of the most ardent supporters of strict controls on domestic and international finance.

Moreover, ECB chief economist Otmar Issing predicts long term interest rates would go up not down as inflationary expectations increased. So cutting interest rates would not only be stupid it would be crazy.

Hiromichi Shirakawa, the chief economist at Credit Suisse AG in Tokyo, suggests that the revenue increase from the consumption tax hike will soon begin to evaporate and disappear completely in 5 7 years.

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In the memorable words of the World Bank s chief economist, Kaushik Basu, One thing that experts know, and that non experts do not, is that they know less than non experts think they do.

A 2005 study headed by Guillermo Calvo, Chief Economist for the Inter American Development Bank, found important similarities between the Great Depression of the 1930 s and economic crises since 1980 in 31 emerging countries.

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One of the EU s main architects, Jean Monnet, a French diplomat and economist, spent much of World War II in Washington, DC, as a negotiator for the European allies.

In July 2012, when a pro European, austerity minded government was running the country, with the well respected economist Mario Monti in charge, the spread reached 536 basis points.

27 Economist Intelligence Unit, December 2002.