Dr. Ray Fair is a Professor of Economics at Yale University. He is a member of the Cowles Foundation at Yale and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. He got a B.A. in Economics from Fresno State College in 1964 and a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 1968. He taught at Princeton University from 1968 to 1974 and has been at Yale since 1974.

Ray’s research has primarily been in the areas of macroeconomics and econometrics, with particular emphasis on macroeconometric model building. He also has done work in the areas of finance, voting behavior, and aging in sports. His publications include Specification, Estimation, and Analysis of Macroeconometric Models; Testing Macroeconometric Models; Estimating How the Macroeconomy Works, and Predicting Presidential Elections and Other Things.

Dr. Fair has taught intermediate introductory macroeconomics at Yale. He has also taught graduate courses in macroeconomic theory and macroeconometrics.