Roger Gordon

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Roger Hall Gordon (born September 14, 1949 ) is an American economist and professor of economics at the University of California, San Diego . His research interests are particularly in public finance and development economics .

education

Roger H. Gordon received a BA in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College in 1972 with the top grade summa cum laude . During his time at Harvard, he was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa academic society . After completing his undergraduate studies, Gordon moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which gave him a Ph.D. in economics.

Professional background

After his Ph.D. Gordon accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Economics at Princeton University , from which he moved to Bell Laboratories in 1980 . After that, Gordon became Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan in 1984 , where he was promoted to Full Professor in 1986 and in 1997 was appointed Reuben Kempf Professorship in Economics. In 2001, Gordon finally accepted an appointment at the University of California, San Diego .

In the course of his career, Gordon worked as an editor for a variety of economics journals , in particular as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public Economics and the Journal of Economic Literature . Further editorial activities took place at the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy , the American Economic Review , the CESifo Economic Studies , the BE Press Journals in Economic Analysis and Policy , International Tax and Public Finance and Econometrica .

research

According to the economics publication database IDEAS , Gordon is one of the 2% of the most research-intensive economists (rank 410) in the overall ranking. Gordon also clearly belongs to the top 5% of the economists recorded in the database when it comes to criteria such as “number of quotations” or “number of works”. Gordon's most cited article is entitled " Why is Capital so Immobile Internationally ?: Possible Explanations and Implications for Capital Income Taxation " (1996) and was written with Lans Bovenberg ( Tilburg University ). In this article, Gordon and Bovenberg look for a solution to the Feldstein-Horioka puzzle ; H. for explanations for the empirical fact that contradicts the theory that capital is quite immobile internationally. To this end, they are developing a model of asymmetrical information distribution , which explains the international immobility of capital by the fact that investors have to pay disproportionately high risk premiums on foreign investments and therefore prefer to invest in a balanced portfolio of securities from domestic, internationally active companies. The authors then discuss the effects of this model in the context of optimal taxation , particularly with regard to government incentives for capital imports.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roger Gordon's biography on the University of California, San Diego website.
  2. ↑ Overall ranking of the economic database IDEAS (English)
  3. ^ Author profile of Roger H. Gordon on IDEAS (English).
  4. ↑ Bovenberg, A. Lars, Roger H. Gordon (1996): Why is Capital so Immobile Internationally ?: Possible Explanations and Implications for Capital Income Taxation (English).
  5. ↑ Why is Capital so Immobile Internationally ?: Possible Explanations and Implications for Capital Income Taxation (1996) (English)
  6. ^ NTJ - National Tax Journal. Accessed December 15, 2015 .

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personal data
SURNAME Gordon, Roger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gordon, Roger Hall (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1949