Spotlight On: Rudiger Dornbusch

Rudiger Dornbusch
June 8, 1942 - July 25, 2002

Obituaries

Boston Globe
Economist
Financial Times
The Nation (Thailand) - by Stanley Fischer
New York Times
The Times (London)
Washington Post

IMF News Briefs

Statement by
IMF Managing Director
Horst Köhler

Statement by
Kenneth Rogoff

Rudi Dornbusch, the world renowned macroeconomist, died of cancer at his home in Washington, D.C. on July 25. He was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Economics, and a prolific and gifted writer of scholarly articles, economics textbooks, and popular articles. Professor Dornbusch was a frequent lecturer at the IMF and the World Bank Group, and also a consultant to the two institutions. This page is presented in tribute by the Joint World Bank/International Monetary Fund Library Network.

Bibliography

Highlighted works

Expectations and exchange rate dynamics - his seminal paper on the overshooting of exchange rates. In The Journal of Political Economy, 1976.

Macroeconomics - This textbook became a standard reference for a generation of graduate and undergraduate students. The link is to a list of records in the JOLIS Library Catalog.

JOLIS Library Catalog - View a list of citations by and about Rudiger Dornbusch from JOLIS, the Library Network's catalog.
by Rudiger Dornbusch:
     Journal articles
     Working papers
     Books
     Videos
     All works
about the Dornbusch overshooting model:
     Articles, papers & videos

Proquest - view a list of citations by and about Rudiger Dornbusch published in Economics and Business journals.
by Rudiger Dornbusch:
     1973-1985
     1986-1998
     1999-present
about the Dornbusch overshooting model:
     1978-1985
     1986-1998
     1999-2002

NBER - curriculum vita. Contains extensive bibliography of his books and other works.

IDEAS - Rudiger Dornbusch - This page contains citations of his articles and working papers, as well as access and download statistics.

Newspaper articles - A list of citations of newspaper articles written by Dr. Dornbusch. Most recent articles appear first.

Web Links

Rudi Dornbusch on Exchange Rate Issues - webcast of his last seminar at the Fund, March 8, 2002

Dornbusch on global economy, Argentina, Russia, and much more . . . - interview with Professor Dornbusch published in IMF Survey, Vol. 31, No. 6, March 25, 2002, pp. 93-96

Dornbusch's Overshooting Model After Twenty-Five Years - A tribute to Professor Dornbusch by Kenneth Rogoff, IMF Working Paper WP/02/39, February 2002.

MIT Department of Economics

MIT - Rudi Dornbusch web site

MIT News - obituary

Paul Krugman -- Remembering Rudi Dornbusch (7/28/02)

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October 3, 2002