Niels Johannesen is a professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Copenhagen (2018 to present). His primary fields of research are International Taxation, Tax Evasion, Tax Avoidance, Tax Planning, Taxation of Multinational Firms, Taxation and Regulation of the Financial Sector.
Current research projects:
What is the effect of bank taxation on riskiness in the financial sector?
How do financial crises spread to the real economy?
Who owns the offshore wealth and why?
Professor Johannesen has a Ph.D. (2010) and M.Sc (2004) in Economics from the University of Copenhagen, an M.A. in European Economics, College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium (2003), and a B.A. in Economics, University of Copenhagen (2001).