Biography
Jonas D. M. Fisher is a vice president and an economic advisor in the economic research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. In this capacity, he leads the macroeconomics group. Fisher conducts research and analysis on macroeconomic topics related to business cycle theory and helps oversee the monthly release of the Chicago Fed National Activity Index, a monthly index designed to better gauge overall economic activity and inflationary pressure.
Prior to his current position, Fisher served as a team leader, senior economist and economic advisor in the economic research area. He began his career at the Chicago Fed as a staff economist in 1996. Before joining the bank, Fisher was an assistant professor of economics at the University of Western Ontario.
Fisher also served as a visiting associate professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a visiting scholar at the Institute of Empirical Macroeconomics at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
Fisher’s research has been published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, the Journal of Economic Theory, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Macroeconomic Dynamics, the Review of Economic Dynamics and the Review of Economic Studies.
Fisher received a B.Sc. in economic and quantitative methods from University of Toronto, an M.A. in economics from Queens University (Kingston, ONT) and a Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University.
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