2026 Robert E. Hall: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	94	139	125	104	92	392	67462

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
2011 - Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association
2004 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1985 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Robert E. Hall is affiliated with the Hoover Institution in the United States. The primary area of their research spans the broad field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with a particular focus on several subfields including Economics and Econometrics, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, General Health Professions, Rheumatology, and Surgery.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

"Why Has the US Economy Recovered So Consistently from Every Recession in the Past 70 Years?" (2020) published in Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Working Paper Series
"The Unemployed with Jobs and Without Jobs" (2022) published in Labour Economics
"Why Has the US Economy Recovered so Consistently from Every Recession in the Past 70 Years?" (2020) published in SSRN Electronic Journal
"Why Has the US Economy Recovered So Consistently from Every Recession in the Past 70 Years?" (2022) published in NBER Macroeconomics Annual
"The Unemployed with Jobs and Without Jobs" (2022) published in SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors associated with their work include:

Marianna Kudlyak
Charles I. Jones
Peter J. Klenow
Emily Carter
Kelechi Ajoku

The main venues where their work has been published encompass:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Working Paper Series
NBER Macroeconomics Annual
Labour Economics
Quarterly Review

Research output by Robert E. Hall focuses on topics such as:

Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
Economic Theory and Policy
Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
Economic theories and models
Employment and Welfare Studies
COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
Firm Innovation and Growth

Awards received by this researcher include:

Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association (2011)
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2004)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1985)

Best Publications

Productivity and the density of economic activity

Antonio Ciccone;Robert E. Hall

11774
Citations
Why do Some Countries Produce So Much More Output Per Worker than Others

Robert E. Hall;Charles I. Jones

10433
Citations
Stochastic Implications of the Life Cycle-Permanent Income Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence

Robert E. Hall

5615
Citations
Estimation and Inference in Nonlinear Structural Models

Ernst R Berndt;Bronwyn H Hall;Robert E Hall;Jerry A Hausman

3772
Citations
Productivity and the Density of Economic Activity

Antonio Ciccone;Antonio Ciccone;Robert E. Hall;Robert E. Hall

3757
Citations
Intertemporal Substitution in Consumption

Robert E. Hall

3176
Citations
The Sensitivity of Consumption to Transitory Income: Estimates from Panel Data on Households

Robert E. Hall;Frederic S. Mishkin

2866
Citations
Tax Policy and Investment Behavior

Dale Jorgenson;R.E. Hall

2861
Citations
The Relation Between Price and Marginal Cost in U.S. Industry

Robert E. Hall

2063
Citations
Employment Fluctuations with Equilibrium Wage Stickiness

Robert E. Hall

1915
Citations
Convergence across States and Regions

Robert J. Barro;Xavier Sala-i-Martin

1676
Citations
The Buffer-Stock Theory of Saving: Some Macroeconomic Evidence

Christopher D. Carroll;Robert E. Hall;Stephen P. Zeldes

1602
Citations
What Does Monetary Policy Do

Eric M. Leeper;Christopher A. Sims;Tao Zha

1469
Citations
The Sensitivity of Consumption to Transitory Income: Estimates from Panel Data on Households

Robert E. Hall;Frederic S. Mishkin;Frederic S. Mishkin

1431
Citations
The Value of Life and the Rise in Health Spending

Robert E. Hall;Charles I. Jones

1268
Citations
Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit

George A Akerlof;Paul M Romer

1166
Citations
The Flat Tax

Robert Ernest Hall;Alvin Rabushka

1112
Citations
The Limited Influence of Unemployment on the Wage Bargain

Robert E. Hall;Paul R. Milgrom

1074
Citations
International Trade and American Wages in the 1980s: Giant Sucking Sound or Small Hiccup?

Robert Z. Lawrence;Matthew J. Slaughter;Robert E. Hall;Steven J. Davis

1027
Citations
Invariance Properties of Solow's Productivity Residual

Robert Hall

1018
Citations
The Productivity of Nations

Robert Hall;Charles Jones

952
Citations
Self-Control and Saving for Retirement

David I. Laibson;Andrea Repetto;Jeremy Tobacman;Robert E. Hall

932
Citations
Industry Rents: Evidence and Implications

Lawrence F. Katz;Lawrence H. Summers;Robert E. Hall;Charles L. Schultze

907
Citations
Labor Market Dynamics and Unemployment: A Reconsideration

Kim B Clark;Lawrefce H Summers

889
Citations
The Stock Market and Capital Accumulation

Robert E. Hall

842
Citations
Market Structure and Macroeconomic Fluctuations

Robert E. Hall;Olivier Jean Blanchard;R. Glenn Hubbard

827
Citations
Plant-Level Adjustment and Aggregate Investment Dynamics

Ricardo J. Caballero;Eduardo M. R. A. Engel;John C. Haltiwanger;Michael Woodford

693
Citations
Why Do Some Countries Produce so Much More Output Per Worker than Others

Robert E. Hall;Robert E. Hall;Charles I. Jones;Charles I. Jones

641
Citations
By How Much Does GDP Rise If the Government Buys More Output

Robert E. Hall

606
Citations
Why Do Some Countries Produce So Much More Output per Worker than Others

Robert E. Hall;Charles I. Jones

121
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ricardo Reis London School of Economics and Political Science

Alan B. Krueger Princeton University

John B. Taylor Stanford University

Dale W. Jorgenson Harvard University

Mark W. Watson Princeton University

James H. Stock Harvard University

Paul Milgrom Stanford University

Frederic S. Mishkin Columbia University

Edward P. Lazear Stanford University

Shane Greenstein Harvard University

External Links

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