Robert hall wiki

American economist

For the Australian-British economist, see Robert Hall, Baron Roberthall.

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 f