Robert Hall
Biography
Robert E. Hall is the Robert and Carole McNeil Joint Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, and Professor of Economics at Stanford.
He holds a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Before taking up his post at Stanford, he taught at MIT and at the University of California, Berkeley. He has served as President, Vice President, and Ely Lecturer of the American Economic Association and is a Distinguished Fellow of the Association. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Society of Labor Economists and the Econometric Society. He chairs the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he is a Research Associate. He was a member of the National Presidential Advisory Committee on Productivity and has advised a number of government agencies on national economic policy, including the Justice Department, the Treasury Department, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, and the Congressional Budget Office, where he serves on the Advisory Committee. He has testified on numerous occasions before congressional committees concerning national economic policy.
Professor Hall’s research focuses on the overall performance of the US economy, including unemployment, capital formation, financial activity and inflation.