Mihir Arvind Desai | |
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| Alma mater | Brown University Harvard University |
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| Discipline | Public economics |
| Institutions | 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]
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."