Economists

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.