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Also known as Stan Fischer

Israeli-American economist

Person · Open Library

Works
129

Top works

  • Economía
  • Macroeconomia
  • Macroeconomía
  • マクロ経済学
  • ʻOlamo shel negid

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
Germany
Active from
1966-07-29
german audiobook reader

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1
Total plays
1

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation

    · 2015 · cited 59,975x

  2. A SIMPLE METHOD FOR THE ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION OF TOTAL LIPIDES FROM ANIMAL TISSUES

    · 1957 · cited 53,678x

  3. The Pricing of Options and Corporate Liabilities

    · 1973 · cited 19,805x

  4. Social Network Analysis

    · 1994 · cited 16,455x

  5. The Effect of a Market Orientation on Business Profitability

    · 1990 · cited 16,075x

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Quotes

  • I still think Keynesian economics is extremely important, and if anybody didn’t think so, this crisis should have made them rethink.

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Key facts

President
Barack Obama , Donald Trump
Preceded by
Janet Yellen
Succeeded by
Richard Clarida
Prime minister
Ariel Sharon , Ehud Olmert , Benjamin Netanyahu
Managing director
Michel Camdessus , Horst Köhler
Born
( 1943-10-15 ) October 15, 1943, Mazabuka , Northern Rhodesia
Died
May 31, 2025 (2025-05-31) (aged 81), Lexington, Massachusetts , U.S.
Spouse
Rhoda Keet ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1965 ; died 2020 ) ​
Education
London School of Economics ( BSc , MSc ), Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( PhD )
Doctoral advisor
Franklin M. Fisher
Discipline
Macroeconomics
School or tradition
New Keynesian economics
Doctoral students
Zvi Bodie , Isher Judge Ahluwalia , Frederic Mishkin , Steven M. Sheffrin , Olivier Blanchard , Ben Bernanke , Kazuo Ueda , David Hsieh , Kenneth D. West , Greg Mankiw , Jeffrey Miron , Mark Bils , David Romer , Ricardo J. Caballero , Michael Kuehlwein , D. Nathan Sheets , Ilan Goldfajn

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Encyclopedic overview

Stanley Fischer (Hebrew: סטנלי פישר; October 15, 1943 – May 31, 2025) was an American and Israeli economist who served as the 20th vice chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2017. Fischer previously served as the 8th governor of the Bank of Israel from 2005 to 2013. Born in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), he held dual citizenship in Israel and the United States. He previously served as First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund and as Chief Economist of the World Bank. On January 10, 2014, President Barack Obama nominated Fischer to the position of Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve. On September 6, 2017, Fischer announced that he was resigning as vice-chair for personal reasons effective October 13, 2017. He was a senior advisor at BlackRock.

Background

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stanley Fischer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.