Roger H. Gordon

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

Training

Roger H. Gordon received a B. A. in 1972 in applied mathematics from Harvard College summa cum laude with the highest rating. During his time at Harvard he was a member of the academic society Phi Beta Kappa. After completing his undergraduate studies, Gordon moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT ), which he in 1976 a Ph.D. awarded in economics.

Professional career

After his Ph.D. Gordon took a position as Assistant Professor of Economics at Princeton University, to which he joined Bell Laboratories in 1980. Thereafter, Gordon in 1984 to Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan, where he was promoted to full professor in 1986 and 1997 got transferred the Reuben Kempf Professor of Economics. 2001 Gordon eventually followed a call to the University of California, San Diego.

Throughout his career, Gordon worked for a large number of applied scientific journals as an editor, particularly as editor of the Journal of Public Economics, and the Journal of Economic Literature. More editorial activities took place at the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 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 part in the overall ranking to the 2 % of the strongest research economists (Rank 410). Even under criteria such as " number of citations " or " number of works " Gordon heard clearly in the top 5 % of the economists included in the database. The most zitierteste Article Gordon is entitled " Why is Capital so Immobile Internationally: Possible Explanations and Implications for Capital Income Taxation" (1996) and was co-authored with Lans Bovenberg ( Tilburg University ). In this article, Gordon and Bovenberg looking for a solution to the Feldstein - Horioka puzzle, ie for explanations of the theory contradictory empirical fact that capital is relatively immobile internationally. To this end, they develop a model of asymmetric information, which the international immobility of capital explained by the fact that investors have to pay a disproportionately high risk premiums on foreign investment and therefore prefer to invest in a balanced portfolio of securities indigenous internationally active companies. Then the authors discuss the implications of this model in the context of optimal taxation, in particular with regard to government incentives for capital imports.

Awards

In 2005, Gordon's work with a Dr. rer. oec. hc. honored by the University of St. Gallen.