Armando José Garcia Pires

Researcher

E-mail:            armando.pires@snf.no
Phone:            +47 55 95 96 22
Academic title: Ph.D
Curriculum Vitae

Research interests

• International Economics
• Industrial Organization
• Economic Development

Selected publications

• "Home Market Effects with Endogenous Costs of Production" (2013), Journal of Urban Economics, 74, pp. 47-58, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2012.10.001
• "Media Plurality and the Intensity of Readers' Political Preferences" (2012), Journal of Media Economics (forthcoming)
• "International Trade and Competitiveness" (2012), Economic Theory, 50, pp. 727-763, www.springerlink.com/content/m9pg102854130862/
• "Can Governments Reverse First-Mover Advantages of Foreign Competitors?" (2012), Economics Bulletin, 32, pp. 1521-1530, www.accessecon.com/Pubs/EB/2012/Volume32/EB-12-V32-I2-P147.pdf
• “R&D and Endogenous Asymmetries between Firms” (2009), Economics Letters, 103, pp. 153–156, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2009.03.007
• “Estimating Krugman’s Economic Geography Model for the Spanish Regions” (2006), Spanish Economic Review, 4, pp. 83-112, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10108-006-9007-x
• “Market Potential and Welfare: Evidence from the Iberian Peninsula” (2004), Portuguese Economic Journal, 4, pp. 107-127, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10258-005-0044-4. 

Work in progress  (selected)

• News sources and media bias (with Hans Jarle Kind and Lars Sørgard)
• Media bias and advertisement
• The choice of transport technology in the presence of exports and FDI (with Jose Pedro Pontes)
• Brain drain and brain waste 

Selected research projects

• Tele-media
• Micro-credit
• Tax-havens