Roger Noll | |
Birth Date: | 13 March 1940 |
Birth Place: | Monterey Park, California |
Nationality: | American |
Institution: | Stanford University |
Field: | Sports economics |
Alma Mater: | California Institute of Technology (B.S. with honors, 1962) Harvard University (Ph.D., 1967) |
Doctoral Advisor: | Robert Dorfman |
Doctoral Students: | Jeffrey Milyo Barry R. Weingast |
Awards: | Guggenheim Fellowship in Economics (1983) |
Roger Noll (born March 13, 1940)[1] is an American economist and emeritus professor of economics at Stanford University. He is also a fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and the director of the Program in Regulatory Policy there.[2] He is known for his research on sports economics, such as the construction of professional sports stadiums.[3] He has testified against the NCAA in multiple court cases, including O'Bannon v. NCAA.[4] [5] In 1983, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in economics.[6]