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# Robert E. Hall

Robert E. Hall is an American economist, born in Palo Alto, California, in 1943. He earned his doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1967 and is a professor at Stanford University. In 1978 he showed that changes in household spending cannot be predicted, reshaping how economists study consumption. He shares the 2026 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel with Michael Woodford.

**Professor of Economics, Stanford University**

## Coverage

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