Dhammika Dharmapala

Assistant Professor                                 
Department of Economics                                      
University of Connecticut                                       
341 Mansfield Road, U-1063                             
Storrs, CT 06269-1063                                         

Email: dhammika.dharmapala@uconn.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Selected Publications

“Corporate Tax Avoidance and Firm Value” (with Mihir A. Desai) Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.

“Tax and Corporate Governance: An Economic Approach” (with Mihir A. Desai) in Wolfgang Schön (ed.) Tax and Corporate Governance, Springer, 2008, pp. 13-30.

“Taxation and the Evolution of Aggregate Corporate Ownership Concentration” (with Mihir A. Desai and Winnie Fung) in Alan J. Auerbach, James R. Hines, Jr., and Joel Slemrod (eds.) Taxing Corporate Income in the 21st Century, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 345-383.
(Featured in the NBER Digest, October 2005)

“Dividends and Tax Policy in the Long Run: Discussion” University of Illinois Law Forum, 2007, pp. 1-5.

“Corporate Tax Avoidance and High Powered Incentives” (with Mihir A. Desai) Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 79, 2006, pp. 145-179.

“The Congressional Budget Process, Aggregate Spending, and Statutory Budget Rules” Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 90, 2006, pp. 119-141.

“Words that Kill? An Economic Model of the Influence of Speech on Behavior (with Particular Reference to Hate Speech)” (with Richard H. McAdams) Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 34, 2005, pp. 93-136.

“Bilateral Accidents with Intrinsically Interdependent Costs of Precaution” (with Sandra A. Hoffmann) Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 34, 2005, pp. 239-272.

“An Economic Analysis of 'Riding to Hounds': Pierson v. Post Revisited” (with Rohan Pitchford) Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, Vol. 18, 2002, pp. 39-66.
Extract reprinted in A. Clarke and P. Kohlers Property Law: Commentary and Materials, Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 129-132.

“Comparing Tax Expenditures and Direct Subsidies: The Role of Legislative Committee Structure” Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 72, 1999, pp. 421-454.

Working Papers

“Which Countries Become Tax Havens?” (with James R. Hines, Jr.)
NBER Working Paper #12802

“Taxes, Institutions, and Foreign Diversification Opportunities” (with Mihir A. Desai)
NBER Working Paper #13132

“Taxes and Portfolio Choice: Evidence from JGTRRA's Treatment of International Dividends” (with Mihir A. Desai)
NBER Working Paper #13281

“Earnings Management and Corporate Tax Shelters” (with Mihir A. Desai)
Harvard Business School Finance Working Paper #884812

“Search, Seizure and (False?) Arrest” (with Thomas J. Miceli)
Revise and resubmit, Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization

“The Just World Bias and Hate Crime Statutes” (with Nuno Garoupa and Richard H. McAdams)
University of Illinois Law & Economics Research Paper No. 06-011

“Sentencing Guidelines, TIS Legislation, and Bargaining Power” (with Nuno Garoupa and Joanna M. Shepherd)