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Robert Hall (economist)

Robert E. Hall
Born (1943-08-13) August 13, 1943 (age 73)
Palo Alto, California
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.


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