James B. Ramsey

James Bernard Ramsey (born 1937) is a Canadian econometrician. He is a professor of Economics at New York University, and was Chair of the Economics Department between 1978 and 1987.

James B. Ramsey
Born1937 (age 83–84)
NationalityCanadian
InstitutionNew York University
FieldEconometrics
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
University of British Columbia
ContributionsRamsey RESET test

Ramsey received his B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from the University of British Columbia in 1963, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1968 with the thesis "Tests for Specification Errors in Classical Linear Least Squares Regression Analysis", which was later partially published in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society.[1] It contained the RESET test for misspecification of an econometric model.

After briefly serving as professor at University of Birmingham, England, and Michigan State University, Ramsey moved to New York University as Professor of Economics and Chair of the Economics Department between 1978 and 1987, where he remained for 37 years until his retirement in 2013.

References
  1. Ramsey, J. B. (1969). "Tests for Specification Errors in Classical Linear Least Squares Regression Analysis". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B. 31 (2): 350–371. JSTOR 2984219.


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