Department of Economics

Armando José Garcia Pires

E-mail:	Armando.Pires@nhh.no
Telephone:	(+47) 55 95 96 22
Fax:	(+47) 55 95 95 43
Title:	European PhD (Technical University of Lisbon and University College Dublin)
Nationality:	Portuguese
Teaching languages:	English

Past experience:	Research fellow at Fundação Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro Research fellow at Università di Bologna Marie Curie Research Fellow at University College Dublin Research fellow at University of Antwerp

Research areas:	International Economics, Industrial Organization and Microeconomics

Research in progress	International Trade with Competitiveness Effects in R&D, CEPR Discussion Paper 5547 R&D And Strategic Industrial Location In International Oligopolies, CEPR Discussion Paper 5582 Commitment Power in R&D and Multinationals, SNF Working Paper 16/05 Losers, Winners and Prisoner’s Dilemma in International Subsidy Wars, SNF Working Paper A38/06 The Geography of R&D: The Case of Italian Regions (with Gianfranco di Simone). Distribution of Talent and Migration (with Kjetil Bjorvatn and Nicola Coniglio).

Selected publications :	Estimating Krugman’s Economic Geography Model for the Spanish Regions, Spanish Economic Review, 4, pp. 83-112. Market Potential and Welfare: Evidence from the Iberian Peninsula, Portuguese Economic Journal, 4, pp. 107 – 127.

Last updated: 2006-11-18. Contact: Dagny Kristiansen