CSWEP Board Member - Bronwyn H. Hall

Bronwyn H. Hall is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley and Temporary Professor of Economics at Oxford University, as well as founder and owner of TSP International, an econometric software firm. She is also a Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, and Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Institute for Fiscal Studies, London. She received a B.A. in physics from Wellesley College in 1966 and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University in 1988.

During the past fifteen years she has published numerous articles on the economics and econometrics of technical change. Her current research includes the use of patent citation data for the valuation of intangible (knowledge) assets, comparative firm-level investment studies (the G-7 economies), measuring the returns to R&D and innovation at the firm level, analysis of technology policies such as R&D subsidies and tax incentives, and a study of recent changes in patenting behavior in the semiconductor and computer industries. For more information on her research and teaching, see her web page at UC Berkeley.

Prior to joining the CSWEP board, Professor Hall served on the Census Advisory Committee of the American Economic Association, and on other committees for the National Academy of Science, the Royal Economic Society, the CNRS (France), and two European research networks. She is currently a member of the International Advisory Board of the New Economic School, Moscow, an Associate Editor of Economics of Innovation and New Technology, and a member of the editorial board of International Finance.

Past visiting positions include a Hoover Institution National Fellowship and a Rockefeller Foundation residency at Bellagio, in addition to shorter invited visits at MERIT, Maastricht University, The Netherlands; Complutense University, Madrid; CREST/INSEE, Paris; Nuffield College, Oxford University; and the New Economic School, Moscow.

Send e- mail to bhhall@econ.berkeley.edu

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