
Interview of Stanley Fischer
About this book
Stanley Fischer is a macroeconomist par excellence. After three careers, the first in academia at Chicago, and at MIT, the second at the World Bank and at the International Monetary Fund, the third in the private sector at Citigroup, he is starting a fourth, as the head of the Central Bank of Israel. This interview, to be published in Macroeconomic Dynamics, took place in April 2004, before the start of his fourth career. Keywords: macroeconomics, international monetary fund, central banking. JEL Classifications: E00, E40, E50, B22.