Associate Professor
Department
of
E-mail address: smpinto@mail.wvu.edu
Office Phone #: (304) 293-7871
VITA
RESEARCH
INTERESTS
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Urban and regional economics, local public economics, microeconomic
theory, econometrics with applications to public economics.
PUBLISHED
PAPERS
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“The Politics of Investment: Partisanship and the Sectoral
Allocation of Foreign Direct Investment” (with Pablo M. Pinto). Economics
& Politics, Vol. 20, No. 2 (June 2008), 216-254.
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“Bank Branching Deregulation: A Spatial Competition Model”
(with Jorge Guillen). Anales de Estudios Económicos y Empresariales, XVII
(2007), 87 -108.
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“Tax Competition in the Presence of Inter-jurisdictional
Externalities: The Case of Crime Prevention”. Journal of Regional
Science, 47 (5) (2007), 897 – 913.
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“Corporate Profit Tax, Capital Mobility, and Formula
Apportionment”. Journal of Urban Economics, 62 (1) (2007), 76 –
102.
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“Choosing a Place to Live and a Workplace” (with H. M.
Ennis, and A. Porto). Económica,
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“Equality of
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“Argentina’s Privatization: Effects on
Income Distribution” (with H. M. Ennis). In Reality Check: The Distributional
Impact of Privatization in Developing Countries. John Nellis and Nancy
Birdsall,
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“Assistance to Poor Households When Income is not Observed:
Targeted In-kind and In-cash Transfers.” Journal of Urban Economics, 53
(3) (2004) 536 – 553.
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“Residential Choice, Mobility, and the Labor Market.”
Journal of Urban Economics, 51 (3) (2002) 469-496.
Undergraduate Courses
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Principles of Macroeconomics
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Principles of Microeconomics
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Intermediate Microeconomics
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State and Local Public Finance
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Public Economics
Graduate Courses
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Mathematical Economics
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Dynamic Methods in Economics
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Advanced Microeconomic Theory
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Advanced Urban Economics
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Topics in Public Finance
Updated
10/30/2008