Roger Noll (born March 13, 1940) 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
The Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) is a nonpartisan economic research institution housed at Stanford University. It was founded in 1982 as a way to bring together economic scholars from different parts of the University.
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and the director of the Program in Regulatory Policy there. He is known for his research on
sports economics Sports economics is a discipline of economics focused on its relationship to sports. It covers both the ways in which economists can study the distinctive institutions of sports, and the ways in which sports can allow economists to research many top ...
, such as the construction of professional sports
stadiums. He has testified against the
NCAA
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges an ...
in multiple court cases, including ''
O'Bannon v. NCAA
''O'Bannon v. NCAA'', 802 F.3d 1049 (9th Cir. 2015) was an United States antitrust law, antitrust class action lawsuit filed against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The lawsuit, which former UCLA Bruins men's basketball, UCL ...
''. In 1983, he received a
Guggenheim Fellowship in economics.
References
External links
Faculty pageat the Stanford Public Policy Program
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1940 births
Living people
People from Monterey Park, California
Stanford University faculty
Harvard University alumni
Economists from California
California Institute of Technology alumni
21st-century American economists
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