Robert Ernest "Bob" Hall is an American economist who serves as a professor of economics at Stanford University, and as the Robert and Carole McNeil Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. In 2026, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Michael Dean Woodford, for their work on the "microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation". He is generally considered a macroeconomist, but he describes himself as an applied economist. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2026, announced October 12, 2026. Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford, “for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation”. Robert E. Hall: born 1943, Palo Alto, CA, USA. Michael Woodford: born 1955, Chicopee, MA, USA. Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).