SANTIAGO M. PINTO
Assistant Professor

Department of Economics
West Virginia University

 

E-mail address: smpinto@mail.wvu.edu

Office Phone #: (304) 293-7871

VITA

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RESEARCH INTERESTS

§         Urban and regional economics, local public economics, microeconomic theory, econometrics with applications to public economics.

PUBLISHED PAPERS

§         “The Politics of Investment: Partisanship and the Sectoral Allocation of Foreign Direct Investment” (with Pablo M. Pinto). Forthcoming: Economics and Politics.

§         “Tax Competition in the Presence of Inter-jurisdictional Externalities: The Case of Crime Prevention”. Journal of Regional Science, 47 (5) (2007), 897 – 913.

§         “Corporate Profit Tax, Capital Mobility, and Formula Apportionment”. Journal of Urban Economics, 62 (1) (2007), 76 – 102.

§         “Choosing a Place to Live and a Workplace” (with H. M. Ennis, and A. Porto). Económica, La Plata, Año LII, Nro. 1-2, 2006.

§         “Equality of Opportunity and Optimal In-Kind and In-Cash Policies” (with Leonardo Gasparini). Journal of Public Economics, 90 (3) (2006), 143 – 169.

§         “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, eds. Center for Global Development. The Brookings Institution, 2005.

§         “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.

§         “Residential Choice, Mobility, and the Labor Market.” Journal of Urban Economics, 51 (3) (2002) 469-496.

TEACHING

 

Period

Course

FALL 2001

ECN 101 Introductory Microeconomics

 

ECN 435 State and Local Public Finance

SPRING 2002

ECON 301 Intermediate Microeconomics

 

ECN 431 Public Economics

FALL 2002

ECON 202 Principles of Macroeconomics

SPRING 2003

ECON 201 Principles of Microeconomics

 

ECON 711 Advanced Microeconomic Theory II

FALL 2003

ECON 201 Principles of Microeconomics

 

ECON 721 Mathematical Economics

SPRING 2004

ECON 201 Principles of Microeconomics

 

ECON 711 Advanced Microeconomic Theory II

 

ECON 791A. Dynamic Methods in Economics

FALL 2004

ECON 760 Advanced Urban Economics

 

ECON 721 Mathematical Economics

SPRING 2005

ECON 711 Advanced Microeconomic Theory II

 

ECON 791A. Dynamic Methods in Economics