Mihir A. Desai is an

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economist currently the

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Professor of Finance at

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and Professor at

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. He graduated from

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with a bachelor's degree of history and economics in 1989, earned an MBA (

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) from

in 1993 and a PhD in Political Economy from

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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.

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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 {{US-economist-stub

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