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Overview

Dhammika Dharmapala is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within economics, finance, business, and social sciences, with an emphasis on the intersections of taxation, law, and economic behavior.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Business, Management and Accounting
  • Social Sciences

More specifically, their subfields focus on:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Accounting
  • Demography
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Political Science and International Relations

The core topics covered in their work are:

  • Corporate Taxation and Avoidance
  • Taxation and Compliance Studies
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
  • Taxation and Legal Issues
  • Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
  • Legal principles and applications

Dhammika Dharmapala has a documented publication record with many recent papers including:

  • "Collective Bargaining Rights and Police Misconduct: Evidence from Florida" (2020), published in The Journal of Law Economics and Organization
  • "Do Multinational Firms use Tax Havens to the Detriment of Other Countries?" (2020), published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "THE TAX ELASTICITY OF FINANCIAL STATEMENT INCOME" (2020), published in National Tax Journal
  • "A NEW MEASURE OF FOREIGN RULE BASED ON GENETIC DISTANCE" (2020), published in Economic Inquiry
  • "Do Multinational Firms Use Tax Havens to the Detriment of Other Countries?" (2020), published in SSRN Electronic Journal

The frequent publication venues where their work appears are:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Journal of Law Economics and Organization
  • National Tax Journal
  • Economic Inquiry
  • Journal of Corporate Law Studies

Dharmapala has collaborated regularly with a number of coauthors, including:

  • Vikramaditya S. Khanna
  • Aziz Z. Huq
  • Nuno Garoupa
  • Richard H. McAdams
  • John Rappaport

Best Publications

  • Corporate Tax Avoidance and High Powered Incentives

    Mihir A. Desai;Mihir A. Desai;Dhammika Dharmapala

  • Corporate Tax Avoidance and Firm Value

    Mihir A Desai;Dhammika Dharmapala

  • What Do We Know About Base Erosion and Profit Shifting? A Review of the Empirical Literature

    Dhammika Dharmapala

  • Which Countries Become Tax Havens

    Dhammika Dharmapala;James R. Hines

  • Earnings Management, Corporate Tax Shelters, and Book-Tax Alignment

    Mihir A. Desai;Dhammika Dharmapala

  • Earnings shocks and tax-motivated income-shifting: Evidence from European multinationals

    Dhammika Dharmapala;Nadine Riedel

  • Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act

    Dhammika Dharmapala;C. Fritz Foley;Kristin J. Forbes

  • Corporate Tax Avoidance and High Powered Incentives

    Mihir A. Desai;Dhammika Dharmapala

  • What Problems and Opportunities are Created by Tax Havens

    Dhammika Dharmapala

  • Tax and Corporate Governance: An Economic Approach

    Mihir A. Desai;Dhammika Dharmapala

  • Corporate Governance, Enforcement, and Firm Value: Evidence from India

    Dhammika Dharmapala;Vikramaditya S. Khanna

  • The Impact of Mandated Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from India's Companies Act of 2013

    Dhammika Dharmapala;Vikramaditya S. Khanna

  • Corporate Tax Avoidance and Firm Value

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  • Corporate Tax Avoidance and Firm Value

    Mihir A. Desai;Mihir A. Desai;Dhammika Dharmapala

  • Tax policy and the missing middle: Optimal tax remittance with firm-level administrative costs☆

    Dhammika Dharmapala;Joel Slemrod;John Douglas Wilson

  • The Power of the Last Word in Legislative Policy Making

    B. Douglas Bernheim;Antonio Rangel;Luis Rayo

  • The Condorcet Jury Theorem and the Expressive Function of Law: A Theory of Informative Law

    Dhammika Dharmapala;Richard H. McAdams

  • Racial Bias in Motor Vehicle Searches: Additional Theory and Evidence

    Dhammika Dharmapala;Stephen L. Ross

  • Punitive Police? Agency Costs, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Procedure

    Dhammika Dharmapala;Nuno Garoupa;Richard H. McAdams

  • Earnings Management, Corporate Tax Shelters, and Book-Tax Alignment

    Dhammika Dharmapala;Mihir A. Desai;Mihir A. Desai

  • Taxation and Corporate Governance: An Economic Approach

    Mihir A. Desai;Mihir A. Desai;Dhammika Dharmapala

  • Comparing tax expenditures and direct subsidies: the role of legislative committee structure

    Dhammika Dharmapala

  • Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: the Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act

    Dhammika Dharmapala;C. Fritz Foley;C. Fritz Foley;Kristin J. Forbes;Kristin J. Forbes

  • Tax sparing agreements, territorial tax reforms, and foreign direct investment

    Céline Azémar;Dhammika Dharmapala

  • Cross-border tax evasion under a unilateral FATCA regime

    Dhammika Dharmapala

  • Earnings Shocks and Tax-Motivated Income-Shifting: Evidence from European Multinationals

    Dhammika Dharmapala;Nadine Riedel;Nadine Riedel

  • What Do We Know About Base Erosion and Profit Shifting? A Review of the Empirical Literature

    Dhammika Dharmapala

  • Profit Shifting in a Globalized World

    Dhammika Dharmapala

  • THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE TAX CUT AND JOBS ACT’S INTERNATIONAL PROVISIONS: LESSONS FROM EXISTING RESEARCH

    Dhammika Dharmapala

  • Bilateral Accidents with Intrinsically Interdependent Costs of Precaution

    Dhammika Dharmapala;Sandra A. Hoffmann

  • Belief in a Just World, Blaming the Victim, and Hate Crime Statutes

    Dhammika Dharmapala;Nuno Garoupa;Richard H. McAdams

  • Words That Kill? An Economic Model of the Influence of Speech on Behavior (with Particular Reference to Hate Speech)

    Dhammika Dharmapala;Richard H. McAdams

  • Stock Market Reactions to India's 2016 Demonetization

    Dhammika Dharmapala;Vikramaditya S. Khanna

  • The Impact of Taxes on Dividends and Corporate Financial Policy: Lessons from the 2000s

    Dhammika Dharmapala

  • Econometric methodology and the philosophy of science

    Dhammika Dharmapala;Michael McAleer

  • Are Campaign Contributions a Form of Speech? Evidence from Recent US House Elections

    Dhammika Dharmapala;Filip Palda

  • An Economic Analysis of "Riding to Hounds": Pierson v. Post Revisited

    Dhammika Dharmapala;Rohan Pitchford

  • CAMPAIGN WAR CHESTS, ENTRY DETERRENCE, AND VOTER RATIONALITY

    Dhammika Dharmapala

  • On the History and Methodology of Econometrics

    Dhammika Dharmapala

  • Corporate Social Responsibility and Taxation: The Missing Link

    Mihir A. Desai;Dhammika Dharmapala

  • The Economics of Tax Avoidance and Evasion

    Dhammika Dharmapala

Frequent Co-Authors

Mihir A. Desai
Mihir A. Desai Harvard University
Richard H. McAdams
Richard H. McAdams University of Chicago
Nuno Garoupa
Nuno Garoupa George Mason University
C. Fritz Foley
C. Fritz Foley Harvard University
Michael McAleer
Michael McAleer Erasmus University Rotterdam
Thomas J. Miceli
Thomas J. Miceli University of Connecticut
James R. Hines
James R. Hines University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Stephen L. Ross
Stephen L. Ross University of Connecticut
Joel Slemrod
Joel Slemrod University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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