Biography:Mihir A. Desai

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Short description: American tax economist
Mihir Arvind Desai
Born
InstitutionsHarvard University
FieldPublic economics
Alma materBrown University
Harvard University
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Mihir A. Desai is an Indian-American economist currently the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School and Professor at Harvard Law School.[1] He graduated from Brown University with a bachelor's degree of history and economics in 1989, earned an MBA (Baker Scholar) from Harvard Business School in 1993 and a PhD in Political Economy from Harvard University in 1998.[1]

Desai has testified to Joint Committees in Washington on international corporate taxation, as is quoted in the main financial papers on US corporate tax.[2]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 "Harvard Law School, Faculty Profile". https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10211/Desai. 
  2. "White House Push to Help Workers Through Corporate Tax Cut Draws Skepticism". The New York Times. 17 October 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/us/politics/white-house-push-to-help-workers-through-corporate-tax-cut-draws-skepticism.html. "Mr. Desai, who wrote the study with Harvard’s C. Fritz Foley and James Hines Jr. of the University of Michigan, said his own estimates of the effect of such a rate cut was closer to $800 a year. “I’m a believer in corporate tax reform, and I’m a believer in corporate tax cuts, and I believe they would go to workers,” he said. “But I don’t believe those numbers add up.”" 

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