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. ...

and the director of the Program in Regulatory Policy there. He is known for his research on sports economics, such as the construction of professional sports

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s. He has testified against the

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in multiple court cases, including '' O'Bannon v. NCAA''. In 1983, he received a

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

in economics.

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