Robert E. Hall

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

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Robert E. Hall was the son of Victor Ernest and Frances Marie Hall, b. Gould, born. After attending University High School in Los Angeles , he studied from 1961 at the University of California, Berkeley , where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in economics in 1964 . In 1967 he received his Ph.D. from Robert M. Solow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). PhD . From 1967 to 1969 he was Assistant Professor and from 1969 to 1970 Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, before returning to MIT as Associate Professor, where he was Professor from 1974 to 1978. Since 1977 he has been director of the research program on economic fluctuations and growth at the National Bureau of Economic Research . He has been with the Hoover Institution since 1978 and is an economics professor 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, especially the Internet, and taxation . In 1981 he and Alvin Rabushka proposed the concept of Flat Tax ( A Proposal to Simplify our Tax System. In: Wall Street Journal. December 10, 1981. More detailed in the book: The flat tax. See literature). Since 2017, Clarivate Analytics has been one of the favorites for an Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics ( Clarivate Citation Laureates , formerly Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates ) due to the number of his citations .

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

Awards

  • Inclusion in Money magazine's Money Hall of Fame

Memberships

Publications

Monographs

  • Investment in Equipment and Structures, 1929–1961. Bachelor's Thesis, University of California, Berkeley 1964 ( pdf , 851 kB)
  • 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 [u. a.] 1982, ISBN 0-226-31323-9 .
  • with Alvin Rabushka : Low Tax, Simple Tax, Flat Tax. McGraw-Hill, New York [et. a.] 1983, ISBN 0-07-025669-1 .
  • with 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 tax model of the future. Manz, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-214-06183-6
  • with John Taylor: Macroeconomics. Theory, performance, and policy. WW Norton, New York [u. a.] 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, Massachusetts [et al. a.] 1990, ISBN 0-262-08197-0 .
  • Booms and Recessions in a Noisy Economy. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut [et al. a.] 1991, ISBN 0-300-04857-2 ( pdf , 2.1 MB).
  • with Marc Lieberman: Economics. Principles and Applications. South-Western College Publ., 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 [u. a.] 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. How to find your most profitable customers. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / Main and New York 1999, ISBN 3-593-36285-6

Essays

  • with Dale Jorgenson : Tax Policy and Investment Behavior. In: American Economic Review. Volume 57, No. 3, June 1967, pp. 391-414.
  • Why Is the Unemployment Rate So High at Full Employment? In: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. 1970, Vol. 3, pp. 369-410.
  • 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 US 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 between Price and Marginal Cost in US Industry. In: Journal of Political Economy. Volume 96, No. 5, October 1988, pp. 921-947.
  • Lost jobs. In: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. 1995, Volume 1, pp. 221-256.
  • with Antonio Ciccone: Productivity and the Density of Economic Activity. In: American Economic Review. Volume 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. Volume 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.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The 2017 Clarivate Citation Laureates - Clarivate. In: clarivate.com. Retrieved September 21, 2017 .
  2. ^ Past and Present Officers. aeaweb.org ( American Economic Association ), accessed February 6, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hall, Robert E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hall, Robert Ernest (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Palo Alto , California