Robert Hall (economist)

Robert Ernest Hall ( born August 13, 1943 in Palo Alto, California) is an American economist.

Life and work

Robert E. Hall was born as the son of Victor Ernest and Frances Marie Hall, born Gould. After attending the University High School in Los Angeles, he studied from 1961 at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1964 in economics. In 1967 he was with Robert M. Solow Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT ) for Ph.D. doctorate. From 1967 to 1969 he was assistant professor from 1969 to 1970 and associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley, before he returned to MIT as an associate professor, where he was professor from 1974 to 1978. Since 1977 he is director of the research program on Economic Fluctuations and Growth at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Since 1978 he has worked at the Hoover Institution and a professor of economics at Stanford University.

Hall works in the fields of the stock market, inflation, unemployment, economic policy, monetary policy, fiscal policy, competition policy, the economics of high technology, particularly the Internet, and taxation. In 1981, he struck with Alvin Rabushka, the flat tax concept before (A Proposal to Simplify our Tax System In: .. Wall Street Journal December 10, 1981 Detailed in the book. The flat tax. see literature).

Hall is married to economist Susan E. Woodward, has four children and lives in Menlo Park, California.

Awards

  • Inclusion in the Money magazine 's Money Hall of Fame

Memberships

Publications

Monographs

  • Essays on the Theory of Wealth. Ph.D. Thesis, MIT, 1967 ( pdf, 3.0 MB)
  • As editor: inflation. Causes and Effects. University of Chicago Press, Chicago [ua ] 1982, ISBN 0-226-31323-9.
  • Alvin Rabushka: Low Tax, Simple Tax, Flat Tax. McGraw- Hill, New York [ua ] 1983, ISBN 0-07-025669-1.
  • Alvin Rabushka: The flat tax. Hoover Institution Press, Stanford, 1985, ISBN 0-8179-8222-1, 2nd edition, Hoover Institution Press, Stanford, 1995, ISBN 0-8179-9312-6 (online); German as: Flat tax. The control model of the future .. Manz, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-214-06183-6
  • With John Taylor: Macroeconomics. Theory, performance, and policy. WW Norton, New York [ ua], 1986, ISBN 0-393-95398- X, 6th edition ( with David Papell ) 2005, ISBN 0-393-97515-0.
  • The Rational Consumer. Theory and Evidence. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. [ua ], 1990, ISBN 0-262-08197-0.
  • Booms and Recessions in a Noisy Economy. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut [ua ], 1991, ISBN 0-300-04857-2 (pdf, 2.1 MB).
  • With Marc Lieberman: Economics. Principles and Applications. South - Western College Pub, Cincinnati, Ohio 1998, ISBN 0-538-84757-3; 5th edition, Cengage Learning, Mason, OH 2009, ISBN 978-1-4390-3896-3
  • Digital Dealing. How eMarkets are Transforming the Economy. Norton, New York [ et al ] 2001, ISBN 0-393-04210-3.
  • The street corner strategy for winning local markets. Performance Press, Austin, Texas 1994, ISBN 0-9639485-0-4; German as: Local market strategies. To find your most profitable customers. Campus -Verlag, Frankfurt / Main and New York 1999, ISBN 3-593-36285-6

Papers

  • With Dale Jorgenson: Tax Policy and Investment Behavior. In: American Economic Review. Volume 57, No. 3, June 1967, p 391-414.
  • Stochastic Implications of the Life Cycle - Permanent Income Hypothesis. Theory and Evidence. In: Journal of Political Economy. Volume 86, No. 6, December 1978, pp. 971-987.
  • The Importance of Lifetime Jobs in the U.S. Economy. In: American Economic Review. Volume 72, No. 4, September 1982, pp. 716-724.
  • Intertemporal Substitution in Consumption. In: Journal of Political Economy. Volume 96, No. 2, April 1988, pp. 339-357.
  • The relation in between Price and Marginal Cost in U.S. Industry. In: Journal of Political Economy. Volume 96, No. 5, October 1988, pp. 921-947.
  • With Antonio Ciccone: Productivity and the Density of Economic Activity. In: American Economic Review. Belt 86, No. 1, March 1996, pp. 54-70.
  • Charles I. Jones: Why Do Some Countries Produce So Much More Output per Worker than Others? In: Quarterly Journal of Economics. Tape 114, No. 1, February 1999, pp. 83-116
  • The Stock Market and Capital Accumulation. In: American Economic Review. Volume 91, No. 5, December 2001, pp. 1185-1202.
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