Navodhya Samarakoon

PhD Candidate in Economics · University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Welcome to my site! I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Before coming to Michigan, I worked in D.C. as Junior Stanley S. Surrey Fellow at the Office of Tax Analysis in the U.S. Department of Treasury. I am the recipient of the Samuel P. Chase award, presented by former Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen, for exceptional public serivce.

My research lies at the intersection of spatial economics, trade, public finance, and labor economics. My projects currently focus on the taxation of multinational companies, place-based policies, and spatial inequality in the United States.

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Research

Publications

Doubling Down on Tax Avoidance: The Effect of Double Irish Closure on the Profit Shifting of U.S. Multinational Companies

With P.R. Organ · International Tax and Public Finance, 33: 113–155 (April 2025)

Paper | The Currency Wall Street Journal Business Post

Who Are Married-Filing-Separately Filers and Why Should We Care?

With E.Y. Lin · Proceedings of the 2023 IRS/TPC Research Conference (November 2024)

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Ambidextrous Cybersecurity: The Seven Pillar (7Ps) of Cybersecurity

With E. Carayannis, E. Grigoroudis, and S. Rehman · IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 68(1): 223–234 (February 2021)

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Works in Progress

Misallocation Under Profit Shifting

The Interaction of the Opioid Crisis and China Shock

Place-Based Policies Under Imperfect Competition

Fiscal externalities and Public Goods Provision