Mark Fisher
Financial Economist and Associate Adviser Emeritusemail :: 404-498-8057
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email :: 404-498-8057
email :: 404-498-8057
Mark Fisher is an economist emeritus of the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Before his retirement, he was a financial economist and associate adviser on the financial markets team in the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. His research interests include asset pricing, the term structure of interest rates, and general equilibrium with recursive preferences.
Prior to joining the Atlanta Fed, Dr. Fisher was an economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He was a finance and economics lecturer at North Carolina State University from 1982 to 1989.
Dr. Fisher's research has appeared in journals including the Journal of Finance, the American Economic Review, and the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
Dr. Fisher received his bachelor's degree in economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He earned both his MBA in finance and his doctorate in finance and economics from the University of Chicago.
Atlanta Fed Working Papers
2019
2019-3
Bayesian Nonparametric Learning of How Skill Is Distributed across the Mutual Fund Industry
Mark Fisher, Mark J. Jensen, and Paula Tkac
March 2019
2018
2018-2a
Bayesian Inference and Prediction of a Multiple-Change-Point Panel Model with Nonparametric Priors
Mark Fisher and Mark J. Jensen
February 2018
2015
2015-15
Fitting a Distribution to Survey Data for the Half-Life of Deviations from PPP
Mark Fisher
December 2015
2009
2009-26
Inflation and Monetary Regimes
Gerald P. Dwyer and Mark Fisher
September 2009
2001
2001-3
Forces That Shape the Yield Curve: Parts 1 and 2
Gerald P. Dwyer and Mark Fisher
March 2001
1999
1999-18
Consumption and Asset Prices with Recursive Preferences: Continuous-Time Approximations to Discrete-Time Models
Mark Fisher
November 1999
1999-17
Consumption and Asset Prices with Homothetic Recursive Preferences
Mark Fisher and Christian Gilles
November 1999
Articles
2016
Mark Fisher and Brian Robertson. "Market Expectations of Fed Policy: A New Tool." Notes from the Vault August 2016.
2014
Mark Fisher. "Monetary Policy, Economic Modeling, and Unknown Unknowns." Notes from the Vault October 2014.
2005
Mark Fisher. "Happy-Hour Economics, or How an Increase in Demand Can Produce a Decrease in Price." Economic Review (Q2 2005).
2004
Mark Fisher. "Modeling the Term Structure of Interest Rates: An Introduction.." Economic Review (Q3 2004).
2002
Mark Fisher. "Special Repo Rates: An Introduction." Economic Review (Q2 2002).
2001
Mark Fisher. "Forces That Shape the Yield Curve." Economic Review (Q1 2001).
Blog Posts
2016
Mark Fisher and Brian Robertson. "What's Moving the Market's Views on the Path of Short-Term Rates?." macroblog July 18, 2016.