Mihir A. Desai is an
Indian-American economist currently the
Mizuho Financial Group
The , known from 2000 to 2003 as Mizuho Holdings and abbreviated as MHFG or simply Mizuho, is a Japanese banking holding company headquartered in the Ĺtemachi district of Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The group was formed in 2000-2002 by merger of Dai- ...
Professor of Finance at
Harvard Business School
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and Professor at
Harvard Law School
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.
He graduated from
Brown University
Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...
with a bachelor's degree of history and economics in 1989, earned an MBA (
Baker Scholar) from
Harvard Business School
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in 1993 and a PhD in Political Economy from
Harvard University
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in 1998.
Desai has testified to Joint Committees in Washington on international corporate taxation, as is quoted in the main financial papers on US corporate tax.
See also
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James R. Hines Jr.
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Dhammika Dharmapala
Dhammika Dharmapala (born 1969/1970) is an economist who is the Paul H. and Theo Leffman Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. He is known for his research into corporate tax avoidance, corporate use of tax havens, and the cor ...
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Double Irish, Single Malt, and CAIA, BEPS tools
References
External links
NBER Profile: Mihir A. Desai
Living people
Harvard Business School faculty
21st-century American economists
Harvard Business School alumni
Brown University alumni
1967 births
Corporate tax avoidance
Corporate taxation in the United States
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