Richard Musgrave Visiting Professorship 2019: Roger H. Gordon
The CESifo and IIPF Richard Musgrave Guest Professorship 2019 was awarded to Professor Roger H. Gordon. Roger Gordon has been Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego, since 2001 and has been a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics (2015), University College London (2014), and Harvard University (2004). He has been an active member of the CESifo Research Network since 2006.
Professor Gordon is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (since 1977) and an International Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (2006) and the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation (2007). From 2004 to 2010 he was Editor of the Journal of Economic Literature and since 2002 he has been Associate Editor of CESifo Economic Studies.
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.
As part of the visiting professorship, Roger Gordon gave the 11th CESifo and IIPF Richard Musgrave Lecture on "The Role of the Corporate Income Tax" at LMU Munich on 28 March 2019.