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Bronwyn Hall

Professor, Economics
Haas Business and Public Policy Group
1-510-642-3878
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Personal Homepage: http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/bhhall/index.html
Academic Group Homepage: http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/bpp/
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Education

B.A. (physics) 1966 Wellesley College
Ph.D. (economics) 1988 Stanford University
M.A. 1996 Oxford University

Positions Held

At UC Berkeley since 1987

1995 - present: Research Associate, Institute for Fiscal Studies (London)
1987 - present: from Assistant Professor of Economics to Full Professor in the Graduate School, University of California at Berkeley
1996-2001: Temporary Professor of Economics and Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University
1978: Research Associate NBER (from Research Economist).
1977: Owner and partner, TSP International
1970-1977: Senior Programmer, Department of Economics, Harvard University
1967-1970: Programmer, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
1966-1967: Programmer, Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University

External Service and Assignments

Advisory Board, HeroArts, Emeryville, Calif., a privately held crafts company, 2000-present.
Science, Technology, and Economic Policy Board, National Research Council, 1999-present.
International Advisory Board, New Economics School, Moscow, 1997-present.
Committee scientifique, Les Enjeux Economiques de l'Innovation, CNRS, Paris, France, 1997-present.
Member, Advisory Board, International Finance, 1997-present.
Associate Editor, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 1994-present.
Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2001-present.
Research Associate, ESRC Center for Social Learning, University College London, 2001-.
Omnitel Professor of Economics, Scuola Sant'anna Superiore, Pisa, June 2001, 2002.

Current Research and Interests

Comparative patent policy
Incentives, tax treatment, and financing for public and private R&D, including international comparisons
Patents as indicators of technological strategies
Valuation of intangible (knowledge-based) corporate assets
Estimation of dynamic panel data models
Patents as indicators of innovative output
Mergers and innovation

Selected Papers and Publications

“Uncovering General Purpose Technologies using Patent Data,” with Manuel Trajtenberg. In Antonelli, C., D. Foray, B. H. Hall, and W. E. Steinmueller, New Frontiers in the Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2005. [Revision of paper prepared for presentation at a conference honoring Paul A. David, May 20-21, 2000, Torino, Italy]. BRONWYN H. HALL 09/23/05
“The Market Valuation of Knowledge Assets in US and European Firms,” with Dirk Czarnitzki and Raffaele Oriani. In Bosworth, D. and E. Webster (eds), The Management Of Intellectual Property, forthcoming 2005.
“A Note on the Bias in the Herfindahl Based on Count Data,” Revue d'Economie Industrielle, forthcoming 2005. (earlier version published in A. Jaffe and M. Trajtenberg (eds), Patents, Citations and Innovations, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2002).
“Market Value and Patent Citations” with Adam Jaffe and Manuel Trajtenberg. Rand Journal of Economics 36 (2005): 16-38. Reprinted in Cantwell, John (ed.), The Economics of Patents, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. [NBER, UC Berkeley, Oxford University, Brandeis University, and Tel Aviv University. Université Paris I: Cahiers de l’Innovation 1998 (April), revised May 2000 and June 2001. NBER Working Paper No. 7741 (June 2000). University of California Dept of Economics Working paper No. E01-304 (August 2001)]
“Exploring the Patent Explosion,” Journal of Technology Transfer 30 (2005): 35-48. [invited lecture at the ZEW Workshop on Empirical Economics of Innovation and Patenting, Mannheim, Germany, March 14/15, 2003. NBER Working Paper No. 10605 (July 2004). University of Cambridge: Cambridge Business Research Working Paper No. 292 (September 2004).]

Teaching

Economics 222/BA 297T-1, Innovation Seminar, (Fall 2004)
Economics 221, Industrial Organization Seminar, (Fall 2004)
Economics 124, Economics of Innovation and Technical Change, (Fall 2004)

Honors and Awards

Hoover Institution National Fellow, 1992-1993.
National Science Foundation grants, 1989-2003.
Sloan Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 1986-1987.

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