James Ramsey



Professor of Economics
Ph.D. 1968 (economics), M.A. 1964 (economics), Wisconsin (Madison); B.A. 1963 (mathematics and economics), British Columbia.


Department of Economics
New York University
19 W. 4th Street, 6FL
New York, NY 10012

Phone: 212.998.8947
Fax: 212.995.4186


Personal Homepage: http://www.econ.nyu.edu/user/ramseyj/

External Affiliations: Royal Statistical Society, Econometric Society, American Statistical Association.

Fellowships/Honors: Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University 1976-1977 and 1983-1984; Fellow, School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1992-1993; Paper of the Year Award, American Statistical Association, 1978; Fellow, American Statistical Association, 1998.

Areas of Research/Interest: Nonlinear dynamics, stochastic processes, wavelets, and functional data analysis.


Selected Publications:

Time Irreversibility and Business Cycle Asymmetry. Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking. 1995.
Limiting Functional Forms for Market Demand Curves. Econometrica. 1972.
Tests for Specification Errors in Classical Linear Least Squares Regression Analysis. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B. 1969.