Franklin M. Fisher: advisors and students

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Franklin M. Fisher

American economist1934 to 2019

Supervised 14 doctoral students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names John R. Meyer as doctoral advisor and lists 51 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 6 other registers.

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Students14

cited by a thesis record
María Soledad Arellano “Three essays on market power in Chile's electricity industry”
2003 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Wallace Patrick Mullin “Causes and consequences of regulatory breakdown : an empirical analysis”
1992 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Andrew R. Myers “A theoretical analysis of the rule of adverse possession”
1990 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Andrei Shleifer “The business cycle and the stock market by Andrei Shleifer.”
1986 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Bert Douglas Bernheim “Rationalizable economic behavior and strategic choice”
1982 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Kathleen Foley Feldstein “The economics of public libraries.”
1977 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Vincent Paul Crawford “Essays in economic theory.”
1976 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Robert E Lucas “Working conditions, wage-rates and human capital: a hedonic study.”
1973 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Charles F Manski “The analysis if qualitative choice.”
1973 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
James Christian Burrows “An economic analysis of the cobalt industry.”
1970 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Richard Schmalensee “On the economics of advertising.”
1970 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis recordstated by Wikidata
Stanley Fischer “Essays on assets and contingent commodities.”
1969 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Michael Rothschild “Essays in economic theory.”
1969 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Edward Baer Roberts “The dynamics of research and development”
1962 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral

Advisors on Wikidata1

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stated by Wikidata
John R. Meyer

Students on Wikidata51

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

stated by Wikidata
Edward B. Roberts
born 1935
stated by Wikidata
Merrill J. Bateman
born 1936
stated by Wikidata
Robert A. Pollak
born 1938
stated by Wikidata
David Belsley
born 1939
stated by Wikidata
Bridger Mitchell
born 1940
stated by Wikidata
Jere R. Behrman
born 1940
stated by Wikidata
Michael Rothschild
born 1942
stated by Wikidata
Alfredo Pastor Bodmer
born 1944
stated by Wikidata
Richard L. Schmalensee
born 1944
stated by Wikidata
Robert E. B. Lucas
born 1945
stated by Wikidata
Bruce Greenwald
born 1946
stated by Wikidata
Charles F. Manski
born 1948
stated by Wikidata
Vincent P. Crawford
born 1950
stated by Wikidata
Mark J. Machina
born 1954
stated by Wikidata
Douglas Bernheim
born 1958
stated by Wikidata
Michael Whinston
born 1959
stated by Wikidata
Robert Ward Vishny
born 1959
stated by Wikidata
Jonathan Feinstein
born 1960
stated by Wikidata
Andrei Shleifer
born 1961
stated by Wikidata
A. Lawrence (Ansfrid) Kolbe
stated by Wikidata
Andrew Richard Myers
stated by Wikidata
Barry McCormick
stated by Wikidata
Bernard John Reddy
stated by Wikidata
Dan Levin
stated by Wikidata
Daniel Rubinfeld
stated by Wikidata
Elizabeth Studley Chase
stated by Wikidata
Eric Bennett Rasmusen
stated by Wikidata
Fernando Maurício Caldeira Brant Saldanha
stated by Wikidata
Gholam Hossein Askari
stated by Wikidata
Gilbert Fellows DeBartolo
stated by Wikidata
James Christian Burrows
stated by Wikidata
James Dwight Dana
stated by Wikidata
Kathleen Foley Feldstein
stated by Wikidata
Kenneth Tod Wise
stated by Wikidata
Lovell Stuber Jarvis
stated by Wikidata
Marcelle V. Arak
stated by Wikidata
María Soledad Arellano
stated by Wikidata
Nancy Lin Rose
stated by Wikidata
Olarn Chaipravat
stated by Wikidata
Pauline Tze-Ping Wan
stated by Wikidata
Philip King Verleger
stated by Wikidata
Ran Dov Mosenson
stated by Wikidata
Richard David Auster
stated by Wikidata
Richard George Anderson
stated by Wikidata
Richard Michael Bookstaber
stated by Wikidata
Robin C. Landis
stated by Wikidata
Stephen Dandridge Kennedy
stated by Wikidata
Tasneem Chipty
stated by Wikidata
Thomas John Rothenberg
stated by Wikidata
Vahid Fallah Nowshirvani
stated by Wikidata
Wallace Patrick Mullin

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

1 step up
stated by WikidataJohn R. Meyer
2 steps up
stated by WikidataGuy Orcuttstated by WikidataJames Duesenberry
3 steps up
stated by WikidataArthur Smithies
4 steps up
stated by WikidataJoseph Schumpeter

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 606 people: 36 cited by thesis records, 571 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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until 1956
Harvard University
studied
1956 to 1957
Harvard University
studied
until 1960
Harvard University
studied
undated
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
worked

At a glance

known as: economist
fields: economics
awards: Guggenheim Fellowship, John Bates Clark Medal, 1973, Fellow of the Econometric Society, 1963, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fisher-Schultz Lecture
member of: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, J Street, Econometric Society, from 1963
Wikipedia: in 7 languages

stated by WikidataStated by Wikidata, shown apart from the thesis records.

Elsewhere8

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaFranklin M. Fisher
stated by WikidataWikidataQ1445221
stated by WikidataVIAF61607073
stated by WikidataGND11072240X
stated by WikidataIdRef031603149
stated by WikidataISNI0000000109072594

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