Robert Hall (economist)
Robert Ernest "Bob" Hall (13 August 1943, Palo Alto, California) 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. 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.
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