Kash Mansori, Ph.D.

Managing Director, Transfer Pricing and Valuation Services

+1 (866) 298-7829 Ext. 709 | kash.mansori@wtpadvisors.com

For over 20 years, Kash has provided expert advice on a range of economic issues and has developed transfer pricing policies, analyses, documentation, and successful audit defense for scores of clients in the US and abroad.

Kash began his career teaching economics at Colby College in Maine. Later he joined Ernst & Young where he became a Transfer Pricing Economist and directed a variety of economic consulting projects for transfer pricing and other purposes, including the production of hundreds of economic studies for US and non-US transfer pricing clients for planning, documentation, intangibles migration, M&A, restructuring, and audit defense engagements across a wide range of industries. He has also developed numerous in-house economic models for forecasting and planning purposes related to taxation, supply chain, cash flow, and foreign exchange issues. Kash has also been recognized since 2019 as a transfer pricing authority in the annual publication Expert Guides: Guide to the World’s Leading Transfer Pricing Advisers.

He is a published author of academic research papers on transfer pricing and other international economic issues. His published articles have been cited as a transfer pricing authority in publications such as Tax Notes International and Compliance Week. His expertise is regularly called upon by continuing education programs and workshops, where he is a frequent presenter on transfer pricing and valuation methods, regulatory developments, and best practices. He has also provided instruction on transfer pricing methods and practices in various settings including business schools, continuing education programs, and the Philippines Finance Ministry.

Education

• Ph.D., Economics Princeton University
• B.A., Economics and History, Wesleyan University

Select Publications

• “CPM Benchmarking Studies: Risk Adjustments to Improve Comparability,” with Guy Sanschagrin, Tax Notes International, August 12, 2024.
• “Assessing Value Creation for Transfer Pricing”, with Guy Sanschagrin, Tax Notes International, March 28, 2016.
• “Why Greece, Spain, and Ireland Aren’t to Blame for Europe’s Woes”, The New Republic, October 11, 2011.
• “Italy’s Going Under, but Don’t Blame Berlusconi”, The New Republic, November 9, 2011.
• “The Perils of Economic Forecasting”, The Wall Street Journal Econoblog, Jan 26, 2006 (with James Hamilton).
• “Following in their Footsteps: Comparing Interest Parity Conditions in Central European Economies to the Euro Countries,” CESifo Working Paper Series no. 1020, August 2003.
• “The Effects of Trade Liberalization with Increasing Returns in Transportation,” Journal of Regional Science, 43(2), pp. 249-268, May 2003.
• “Tax Competition and Transfer Pricing Disputes,” Finanzarchiv, 58(1), pp. 1-11, Fall 2001 (with Alfons Weichenrieder).
• “Backward Boycotts: Demand Management and Fishery Conservation,” Global Environmental Politics, vol 1 no. 2, pp. 30-41, May 2001 (with J. Samuel Barkin).