Bridget Fisher is a researcher and communications specialist with a background in government and public affairs. Before joining SCEPA, she was a senior press officer in The New School’s communications department working with social science departments across the university. She came to higher education from government. In New York, she served as chief of staff for a member of the New York City Council and director of communications for the Working Families Party. On Capitol Hill, she served as press secretary and legislative assistant for a member of the U.S. Congress. Bridget graduated from American University in Washington, D.C., with a bachelor's degree in public communication and women’s studies. She received her master's degree in public administration with a focus on urban economic development from CUNY's Baruch College.
A Keynesian Dynamic Stochastic Disequilibrium Model
A Dynamic Stochastic Disequilibrium (DSDE) model is proposed for business cycle analysis.
The "Magic Square" of Economic Policy
The macroeconomic performance of eleven euro zone area countries is evaluated over time and across countries.
Crisis and Theoretical Methods
This talk explores methodological alternatives to macroeconomic analysis based on price-taking Walrasian intertemporal general equilibrium models.
Long-Run Variation in Capacity Utilization
We develop a generic Kalecki-Robinson model of growth that illustrates the different channels through which the economy can adjust to a change in demand conditions in the long run.
Socialist Alternatives to Capitalism II: Vienna to Santa Fe
This paper is the second of two following the history of thought on socialist alternatives to capitalism.
Socialist Alternatives to Capitalism I: Marx to Hayek
This paper is the first of two following the history of thought on socialist alternatives to capitalism.
Lectures on the Foundations of Applied Statistical Inference
This book aims to make explicit exactly what implicit assumptions about the informational state of the observer support frequentist analysis.
Financial Stress, Regime Switching and Spillover Effects
In this paper we develop a multi-regime global VAR model to study the spill-over effects in financial markets.
Regularities in Prices of Production and the Compositions of Capitals
This paper argues that the combined effect of regularities in prices of production and the concentration of compositions of capitals produces the empirical regularities in relative prices.
Maximum Entropy Estimation of Statistical Equilibrium in Economic Models
In this paper we examine the class of models defined by a joint distribution of discrete individual actions and an outcome variable so that the joint distribution is underdetermined.
