Department of Economics

Lance Fisher

Lance Fisher

Formal Name: Lance Fisher

Personal Title: Professor

Position: Professor of Economics

Organisational Unit: Department of Economics

Qualifications: BA(Hons, Class1) Macquarie, MCom(Hons) UNSW, PhD (Minnesota)

Telephone: (+61-2) 9850-8480

Fax: (+61-2) 9850-8324

Email: lfisher@efs.mq.edu.au

Location: E4A 435

Websites:

Profile

On completion of his PhD in 1988, Lance Fisher joined the School of Economics at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, as a lecturer. He was with the School of Economics at UNSW for almost twenty years where he was promoted to senior lecturer and to Associate Professor. He was appointed Professor of Economics at Macquarie University in February, 2008. He has held several visiting appointments including at Virginia Tech, the Australian National University, the University of Melbourne and the Reserve Bank of Australia. His research has been in the area of macroeconometrics and, more recently, on evaluating theory based models of asset return predictability. He has been a co-chief investigator on three Australian Research Council Discovery Grants.

Research Areas

  Macroeconomics
  Applied Econometrics
  Financial Economics