Robert E. Hall | |
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Born |
Palo Alto, California |
August 13, 1943
Nationality | American |
Institution | Stanford University |
Field | Macroeconomics |
Alma mater |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of California, Berkeley |
Doctoral advisor |
Robert Solow |
Doctoral students |
Antonio Ciccone |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc |
Robert Ernest "Bob" Hall (born August 13, 1943) is an American economist and a Robert and Carole McNeil Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He is generally considered a macroeconomist, but he describes himself as an "applied economist".
Bob Hall received a BA in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley and a PhD in Economics from MIT for thesis titled Essays on the Theory of Wealth under the supervision of Robert Solow. He is a member of the Hoover Institution, the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow at both American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society, and a member of the NBER, where he is the program director of the business cycle dating committee. Hall served as President of the American Economic Association in 2010.
Hall has a broad range of interest, including technology, competition, employment, policy and the such.