Bronwyn H. Hall
Faculty profiles
Members of the Economics Department
Bronwyn H. Hall
Professor Emerita
Fields
Applied econometrics and industrial organization, economics of technical change
Current Research
Innovation and patent policy; incentives, tax treatment, and financing for public and private R&D, including international comparisons; valuation of intangible corporate assets, especially knowledge assets; 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; innovation in the ICT, software, and green technology sectors.
Current Status
Emerita
PhD
Ph.D. Stanford University, 1988
Research Interests
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
About Bronwyn H. Hall
Bronwyn H. Hall is Emerita Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, and a Visiting Fellow at NIESR, London. She currently serves as an associate editor of the Economics of Innovation and New Technology, and of Industrial and Corporate Change. She is a also a member of several advisory boards (Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, European Patent Office, DIW - German Institute for Economic Research). She received a B.A. in physics from Wellesley College in 1966 and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University in 1988.