Robert E. Hall is Senior Fellow and Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He is Chairman of the NBER's Committee on Business Cycle Dating, which maintains the semi-official chronology of the US business cycle. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) and a distinguished fellow of the American Economic Association. He received his PhD from MIT.
Hall has advised government agencies on national economic policy, including the Justice Department, the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve Board, and the Congressional Budget Office, where he serves on its Advisory Panel. He has testified before congressional committees concerning national economic policy. Before coming to Stanford, Hall taught at Berkeley and MIT.
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What do recoveries from past US recessions teach us about the recovery from the pandemic recession?
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The Fed Needs to Make a Policy Statement
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The right way to create a good bank and a bad bank
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