Bronwyn H. Hall

Professor of the Graduate School

Fields: Applied econometrics and industrial organization, economics of technical change

Research interests: Comparative patent policy; incentives, tax treatment, and financing for public and private R&D, including international comparisons; patents as indicators of technological strategies; valuation of intangible corporate assets; estimation of dynamic panel data models; panel data estimation (linear and nonlinear models; count data models; dynamic factor models); patents as indicators of innovative output; firm size and growth; effect of corporate restructuring and mergers on innovation and R&D; market valuation of R&D and patents

Bronwyn H. Hall is Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California at Berkeley and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Institute for Fiscal Studies, London. She is also the founder and partner of TSP International, an econometric software firm. Professor Hall currently serves as an associate editor of the Economics of Innovation and New Technology and the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and as advisory editor of Research Policy. She is a member of the U.S. Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee, the Research Advisory Council of the Deutsche Bundesbank, and the International Advisory Board, New Economics School, Moscow. She received a B.A. in physics from Wellesley College in 1966 and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University in 1988.