Kevin Hallock : Biography
Kevin F. Hallock is Professor of Human Resource Studies and of Labor Economics and Director of Research at the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS) in the ILR at Cornell University, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA.
His current research is focused on compensation, labor economics, human resource management and corporate finance. He has written extensively on executive compensation in the for-profit and nonprofit worlds. One recent project, using stock option exercise information, estimates the value employees place on options and the cost of the options to firms. Professor Hallock has been published in a variety of outlets including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Corporate Finance, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Industrial Relations, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management. He has co-edited four volumes on Labor Economics and two volumes on Executive Compensation. Funding for his research has come from various sources, including the American Compensation Association, the Intel Corporation, the National Bureau of Economic Research, the U.S. Department of Labor, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Kevin's work has been discussed in various national and business publications such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Barron's, Business Week, Time Magazine, and Newsweek. He has received teaching awards from the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations and from the Department of Economics at the University of Illinois, where he taught from 1995 - 2005. He is the recipient of the Albert Reese Award for the Best Dissertation in Labor Economics from the Industrial Relations section at Princeton University and the John Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Award from the Labor and Employment Relations Association. At Cornell, Professor Hallock teaches a course in compensation and a course in finance.
He earned a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 1995, and a B.A. in Economics, Summa Cum Laude, from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1991.
