NBER profile: Ray C. Fair.

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Ray C. Fair was elected to the NBER's Board of Directors last fall, representing Yale University. He has been a professor of economics at Yale's Cowles Foundation since 1979.

Fair has a B.A. from Fresno State College and a Ph.D. in economics from MIT. He was an assistant professor of economics at Princeton University from 1968-74. He then joined Yale's faculty as an associate professor, a title he held from 1974-9. He was also a visiting associate professor at MIT in 1977.

Fair's main research is in macroeconometrics, but he has also done...