Dr. Roger Gordon is a Visiting Professor of Economics at CKGSB and a Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego. He graduated from Harvard College in 1972 and received a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 1976. He was an Assistant Professor at Princeton from 1976-80. He then moved to Bell Labs, where he was a Member of the Technical Staff. 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. Since 2001, he has been a Professor of Economics at UCSD. Over the years, he has also been a visiting professor at a wide variety of universities and institutions throughout the world. In addition to his teaching positions, he was Editor of the Journal of Economic Literature, and Journal of Public Economics, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

•  “Tax by Design: The Mirrlees Review,” Fiscal Studies, forthcoming.
• “Provincial and Local Governments in China: Fiscal Institutions and Government Behavior,” in Capitalizing China, edited by Joseph Fan and Randall Morck, forthcoming. (with Wei Li)
• “Income Redistribution in a Federal System of Governments,” Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming. (with Julie Cullen)
• "Taxes and Development: Experiences of India vs. China, and Lessons for other Developing Countries." In Taxation in Developing Countries: Six Case Studies and Policy Implications, edited by Roger Gordon. Columbia University Press, 2010, pp.37-61.
• "Tax Structure in Developing Countries: Many Puzzles and a Possible Explanation," Journal of Public Economics, 2009. (with Wei Li)
• "Commentary on International Taxation: Tax Policy when Corporate Profits are a Return to Labor rather than Capital." In Reforming the Tax System for the 21st Century, edited by James Mirrlees, 2010, pp. 1009-1027.
• "Interest Rates, Taxes and Corporate Financial Policies," National Tax Journal, 2007, pp. 65-84. (with Young Lee) Awarded the Richard A. Musgrave Prize for the most outstanding article published that year in the journal.
• "Taxes and Entrepreneurial Activity: Theory and Evidence for the U.S," Journal of Public Economics, 2007, pp. 1479-1505. (with Julie Cullen)
• "Dividends and Taxes." In Institutional Foundations of Public Finance: Economic and Legal Perspectives, edited by Alan Auerbach and Daniel Shaviro, 2008,pp.204-24.
• "Puzzling Tax Structures in Developing Countries: A Comparison of Two Alternative Explanations." In Fiscal Policy and Management in East Asia, edited by Takatoshi Ito and Andrew Rose, 2007, pp. 9-35.
• "How Do Taxes Affect Entrepreneurial Activity?: A Comparison of U.S. and Swedish Law." (in Swedish) In Entreprenörskap och tillväxt, edited by Pontus Braunerhjelm & Johan Wiklund, 2006.
• "Tax Reform and Entrepreneurial Activity," Tax Policy and the Economy, 2006, vol. 20, pp. 41-72. (coauthored with Julie Berry Cullen)
• "Tax Structure and Economic Growth," Journal of Public Economics, 2005, vol. 89, pp. 1027-43. (with Young Lee)
• "Taxes and Economic Growth in China," in Critical Issues in China's Growth and Development, edited by Yum Kwan and Eden Yu, 2005, pp. 22-40. (with Wei Li)