Research AssociateUniversity of Oxford and Oxford Centre for Business Taxation
Michael is a Research Associate at IFS and Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford. His research interests include: the taxation of companies; international tax competition; optimal taxation of risky investment; location decisions of multinationals; economic geography; dividend policy; and tax incidence.
Education
PhD Economics, University College London, 1990
MSc Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1982
BA (First Class Honours) Philosophy, Politics and Economics, St John's College, Oxford University, 1980
Although it is now over twenty years since the European Commission first published proposals concerning the harmonisation of corporate taxes, the debate on the desirablility of any such reform has not yet achieved a high political profile.
