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Department of Economics 412 Business and economics Bldg. |
PHONE (304) 293-7871 FAX (304) 293-5652 |
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Spanish (native), English (fluent). |
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Education |
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Ph.D., July 2001. M. S. in Economics, May 1998. §
Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires,
Argentina. §
Master in Economics,
Graduate Program in Public Policies, July 1994. §
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Licentiate in Economics,
April 1993. |
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ACADEMIC
POSITIONS |
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Assistant
Professor, Department of Economics, §
Faculty Research Associate
of the Regional Research Institute at WVU. August 2002 - Present. §
Visiting Professor, §
Instructor, Universidad de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina. 1994 – 2000. §
Instructor, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella,
Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1994 – 1997. §
Instructor, Instituto Torcuato Di Tella,
Buenos, Argentina. 1994 – 1997. |
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Research
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Urban and
Regional Economics, Public Economics, Microeconomic Theory, Econometrics with
applications to Public Economics. |
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Published
ARTICLES |
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“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, §
“Equality of §
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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. §
“Residential Choice,
Mobility, and the Labor Market.” Journal of Urban Economics, 51 (3) (2002)
469-496. |
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Unpublished
ARTICLES |
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“Crime in a Multi-Jurisdictional Model with Private and
Public Prevention” (with Kangoh Lee). Under review. §
“Immigration, Outsourcing, and Tax Policy:
Evidence from OECD Countries” (with Sudeshna Pal).
Under review. §
“The Politics of Investment: Partisan
Governments, Wages and Employment” (with Pablo M. Pinto). §
“A Spatial Model of Tenure Choice” (with
Justin Ross). §
“Are Preferential Trading §
“Spatial
Competition between Banks: A Theoretical Model” (with Jorge B. Guillen). §
“Inter-jurisdictional
Crime and Tax Competition.” Working Paper, §
“Political Control, Corruption
and Discretion” (with Yousam Choi). §
“Who Benefits
from the Public Provision of Education?” §
“Assistance to
Poor Households When Income Is Not Observed.” §
“Relative Efficiency
Measures in the Local Public Sector: An Application to the Education Sector
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“Contrataciones del Estado en la Provincia de Buenos Aires” (with Walter Cont, Marcelo Garriga, Santiago Urbiztondo and José Wynne). 1995. §
“Especificación de Preferencias Sociales Implícitas: Sistema de
Impuestos Indirectos en Argentina, 1986-1987.” DTE 198 (DTP 58 Documento de Posgrado), Instituto Torcuato Di Tella.
November 1995. |
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work in
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“Corporate Profit Tax, Formula Apportionment
and Multinational Firms” (with Nabamita Dutta). §
“Immigration, Outsourcing, and Tax Policy” (with Sudeshna Pal). §
“Inter-City Competition and
the Urban Transport System.” §
“Partisanship, Sectoral
Allocation of Foreign Direct Investment, and Imperfect Capital Mobility (with
Pablo M. Pinto). §
“Regulating Foreign Investment: A Study of
the Properties of Bilateral and Multilateral Investment Regimes (with Pablo
M. Pinto and Nicolas Stier-Moses). §
“The Politics of Investment: Estimating
Implicit Government Preferences” (with Pablo M. Pinto). |
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GRANTS
AWARDED |
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Grant from the Korean Institute for Industrial Economics
and Trade, Ministry of Commerce and Resources, §
Grant from the Center for
International Business Education and Research (CIBER) for the research
proposal: “The Politics of Investment: Partisanship and the Activity of
Multinational Corporations” (with Pablo M. Pinto). April 2005. §
Summer Research Grant
Award, College Research and Library Committee, WVU. 2004. §
Regional Research Institute
(RRI) Seed Grant, WVU. On the basis of three external referees, the proposal
was selected for funding. Accordingly, the RRI funds a graduate student
research assistant during autumn and spring semester, and additionally
provides funds for conference travel funds. Fall 2003 - Spring 2004 §
Faculty Development Grant. §
Grant from the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB).
Project title: “The Effect of Privatization and Deregulation on Income
Distribution and Poverty in §
Tinker Award, |
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Conferences |
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46th
Annual Southern Regional Science Association Meeting, March 29-31, 2007.
Presenter and discussant. §
2005 American
Political Science Association (APSA) Meeting. §
51st
Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association
International. §
43rd
Annual Southern Regional Science Association Meeting, §
50th
Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association
International. §
IV Meetings of the LACEA /
IADB / WB Research Network on Inequality and Poverty, National Chapter,
Argentina, July 26-27, 2003. Presenter. §
Conference on the
Distributional Consequences of Privatization, Center for Global Development, §
IV Meetings of the
LACEA/IADB/ WB Research Network on Inequality and Poverty, §
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28as Jornadas de Finanzas
Públicas, Córdoba, 1995. Presenter and discussant. |
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Teaching
Experience |
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Undergraduate
Courses: ECON 201, Principles of Microeconomics. Fall 2003, Spring 2003, Spring
2004. ECON 202,
Principles of Macroeconomics. Fall 2002. §
Graduate
Courses: ECON 711, Advanced Microeconomic Theory II. Spring 2003, Spring 2004,
Spring 2005, Spring 2006. Professor ECON 721, Mathematical Economics. Graduate level. Fall 2003,
Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007. ECON 761,
Advanced Regional Economics. Graduate level. Fall 2005. ECON 762,
Advanced Urban Economics. Graduate level. Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2006,
Fall 2007. ECON 723, Dynamic Methods of Economics. Graduate level. Spring 2004,
Spring 2005, Spring 2006. Topics in Public Finance. Workshop. Summer 2007. §
Undergraduate Courses: ECN 101, Principles of Microeconomics, ECN 435, State and Local Public Finance. Fall 2001. |