Upcoming Webinar: "Institutions Supporting High-quality R&D"
Lectures in Government and Economics No. 26
On February 5, 2026, the Society for the Analysis of Government and Economics (SAGE) will host an online lecture entitled "Institutions Supporting High-quality R&D." This lecture will be presented by Roger Gordon, Professor Emeritus and Research Professor at University of California, San Diego. The webinar represents the twenty-sixth installment in SAGE's Lectures in Government and Economics Series.
Topic: Institutions Supporting High-quality R&D
Lecturer: Roger Gordon, Professor Emeritus and Research Professor at University of California, San Diego
Moderator: David Daokui Li, Director of the Academic Center for Chinese Economic Practice and Thinking (ACCEPT) at Tsinghua University and Co-President of the Society for the Analysis of Government and Economics (SAGE)
Organizers: Society for the Analysis of Government and Economics (SAGE) and Academic Center for Chinese Economic Practice and Thinking (ACCEPT)
Time: February 5 (Thursday), 8:30 - 10:00 pm CST (UTC +8)
Language: English
Video Replay: https://www.51xueshuo.com/#/viewLive?planCode=2018548925216198656&l=en&_=1770279609232
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Speaker Bio:
Roger Gordon 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 Economcis. 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 is currently Editor of theJournal of Economic Literature, a past editor of 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. His research has focused on diverse topics in Public Finance and the Economics of Transition.
