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Robert E. Hall | |
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| Born | August 13, 1943 Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Susan E. Woodward |
| Academic career | |
| Field | Macroeconomics |
| Institution | Stanford University |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Solow |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Robert Ernest "Bob" Hall (born August 13, 1943) is an American economist who serves as a professor of economics at Stanford University, and as the Robert and Carole McNeil Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.[1] He is generally considered a macroeconomist, but he describes himself as an applied economist.[2]
Hall received a BA in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, writing a thesis titled Essays on the Theory of Wealth[3] under the supervision of Robert Solow.[4]
Hall is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society, and a member of the NBER.[5] He has been the chairman of the Business Cycle Dating Committee, the body responsible for setting the start and end dates of U.S. economic recessions, since 1978.[6][7] Hall served as President of the American Economic Association in 2010,[8] and is a long-time member of the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity.[9]
- ^ "CV.pdf" (PDF). Dropbox. Retrieved 2023-09-09.
- ^ Webpage Robert Hall at Stanford.
- ^ Essays on the Theory of Wealth
- ^ "The productive career of Robert Solow". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2023-11-05.
- ^ "CV.pdf" (PDF). Dropbox. Retrieved 2023-11-05.
- ^ Business Cycle Dating Committee Members
- ^ The NBER's Business Cycle Dating Committee
- ^ American Economic Association: Past Presidents
- ^ Brookings Papers on Economic Activity