University of California at Berkeley
United States of America
Bronwyn H. Hall is Professor of Economics 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. She received a B.A. in physics from Wellesley College in 1966 and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University in 1988. She is currently a member of the Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) Board of the National Research Council, where she has served on the Intellectual Property and R&D statistics committees. In the past she has visited and taught at several European institutions such as Oxford University; Scuola Superiore Santanna, Pisa; European University Institute, Florence; and the New Economic School, Moscow.
Professor Hall has published articles on the economics and econometrics of technical change in journals such as Econometrica, the American Economic Review, the Rand Journal of Economics, and Research Policy. Her current research includes comparative analysis of the U.S. and European patent systems, the use of patent citation data for the valuation of intangible (knowledge) assets, comparative firm-level investment and innovation 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 of recent changes in patenting behavior in the semiconductor and computer industries.
For more information on Professor Halls research and teaching, see her web page at the University of California at Berkeley: http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/bhhall