Ray Fair

Ray Clarence Fair (born October 4, 1942 in Fresno, California) is the John M. Musser Professor of Economics at Yale University.

Fair received his B.A. from Fresno State College in 1964 and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1968. He spent several years at Princeton University before moving to Yale. He is now a professor within the Cowles Foundation and the International Center for Finance.

Fair's teaching and research interests include macroeconomic theory, econometrics, and macroeconometric modeling. He is the author, along with Karl Case of Wellesley College, of the economics textbook "Principles of Economics". He has also authored several books pertaining to modeling, including "Testing Macroeconometric Models"(1994), "Estimating How the Macroeconomy Works" (2004) and the more recent "Predicting Presidential Elections and Other Things" (2002).

Ray Fair maintains a macroeconomic model, data, software and forecasts on his home page and that are also available for free downloading for use on a personal computer. The Fair Model macroeconmic model forecasts for the United States and 38 other countries.

Fair lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with his wife Sharon Oster, a professor at the Yale School of Management. He is the father of Emily Oster, an economist at the University of Chicago.

External links

* [http://fairmodel.econ.yale.edu/ Ray C. Fair Home Page (Yale)]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/15/magazine/15QUESTIONS.html?ex=1144296000&en=b1ba995177103207&ei=5070 Ray C. Fair Interview (New York Times Magazine)]
*"Principles of Economics" (ISBN 978-0-13-144234-4)
*"Testing Macroeconometric Models" (ISBN 978-0-674-87503-6)
*"Estimating How the Macroeconomy Works" (ISBN 978-0-674-01546-3)
*"Predicting Presidential Elections and Other Things" (ISBN 978-0-8047-4509-3)