The Hoover Institution's Celebration of Service for Robert and Carole McNeil Senior Fellow, Robert E. (Bob) Hall on Friday, November 22nd, 2024, at 1:00 p.m. in the Shultz Auditorium in the George P. Shultz Building at the Hoover Institution.

The Hoover Institution celebrated the six decades of Bob Hall's contributions to the field of economics and economic policy.  His contributions span a wide range of issues, such as understanding consumption, taxation and capital, market power, labor market fluctuations, and productivity differences across countries. Bob Hall joined the Hoover Institution as a fellow in 1978 and will be retiring in 2025.

Robert E. (Bob) Hall

Speakers

Condoleezza Rice, Tad and Dianne Taube Director | Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

Valerie Ramey, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

Jim Poterba, Mitsui Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tom Sargent, William R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Business, New York University

John Cochrane, Rose-Marie and Jack Anderson Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

Susanto Basu, Professor of Economics | Director of Graduate Studies, Boston College

Chad Jones, STANCO 25 Professor of Economics , Stanford Graduate School of Business

Richard Rogerson, Charles and Marie Robertson Professor of Public and International Affairs, Princeton

Susan Woodward, Founder, Sand Hill Econometrics

Sebastian di Tella, Associate Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Marianna Kudlyak, Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution

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