NBER Profile: Raymond Fisman.

• Position: Research associate from National Bureau of Economic Research - Brief article

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Raymond Fisman is a Research Associate in the NBER's Program in Corporate Finance. He is also the Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise and Director of the Social Enterprise Program at the Columbia Business School.

Fisman received his Ph.D. in Business Economics at Harvard University and his B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from McGill University. He worked as a consultant in the Africa Division of the World Bank for a year before moving to Columbia in 1999.

Fisman's research focuses on two main areas: he studies the behavior of firms in the developing world, with a particular focus on...