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.
[9] Hall has a broad range of interests, including technology, competition, employment, and policy.