Roger H. Gordon

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Roger H. Gordon
Born (1949-09-14) September 14, 1949 (age 72)
Institution University of California, San Diego
University of Michigan
Bell Laboratories
Princeton University
Field Public Finance
Economics of Transition
Alma mater MIT
Harvard College
Doctoral
advisor
Jerry A. Hausman [1]
Doctoral
students
Mary E. Lovely
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Roger Hall Gordon (born September 14, 1949) is an American economist whose research deals primarily with taxation. He graduated from Harvard in 1972 and received a PhD in economics from MIT in 1976. In 1984, he moved to the University of Michigan, first as an associate professor, then professor, and later as the Reuben Kempf Professor of Economics. He has also taught at Princeton, and been a visiting professor all over the world. Since 2001, he has been a professor of economics at UCSD.

He is a research associate as the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Centre for Economic Policy Research. [2] Between 2004 and 2010, he served as the editor of the Journal of Economic Literature . He has also been an editor for the Journal of Public Economics and the American Economic Review. He is fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

From 1992 to 2016 he organized the Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar.

The CESifo's website notes that "Roger Gordon's work has contributed to the understanding of a wide range of economic issues, with a focus on public finance and development economics. His contributions examine, for example, the role of tax policy in the development process, both in general contexts and in the special case of China. His research also focuses on tax policy issues in open economies. In general, many of his papers deal with the effects of taxation on corporate and individual behavior and their implications for tax policy." [3]

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References

  1. Gordon, Roger Hall (1976). Essays on the causes and equitable treatment of differences in earnings and ability (Ph.D.). MIT . Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  2. "Seven from UC San Diego Named Fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences". UC Health - UC San Diego. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  3. "Richard Musgrave Visiting Professorship 2019: Roger H. Gordon". www.cesifo.org. Retrieved 2020-08-26.