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# Pablo M. Pinto

Pablo M. Pinto, University of Houston

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- [About me:](https://pablopinto.com/) - Curriculum Vitae: (updated March 2026) Bio: I am Director of the Center for Public Policy, and Distinguished Professor at the Hobby School of Public Affairs at the University of Houston. I hold a law degree from Universidad Nacional de La Plata in Argentina, an M.A. from Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan, and a Ph.D. from
- [Current research and working papers](https://pablopinto.com/working-papers/) - Boon, Curse, Fortune or Evil? The Political Consequences of Inward Foreign Direct Investment, with Boliang Zhu. Book manuscript under review. Download Manuscript. Heterogeneous Districts, Interests, and Trade Policy, with Kishore Gawande, and Santiago M. Pinto. Download (Nov-2024 version). An earlier version was published as Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, November 2023, Working Paper Series No.
- [Peer reviewed publications](https://pablopinto.com/research/) - Books: Partisan Investment in the Global Economy: Why the Left loves foreign direct investment and FDI loves the Left. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2013. Buy from CUP or Amazon. Politics and Foreign Direct Investment. What makes a country attractive to multinational corporations? (co-authored). Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2012. Buy from UMP or Amazon. Book chapters: The Politics of Hard
- [Center for Public Policy](https://pablopinto.com/cpp/) - The Center for Public Policy is the research unit of the Hobby School of Public Affairs. CPP is dedicated to providing scientific, non-biased data and analysis to public officials, business professionals, community leaders and residents throughout Houston and the state of Texas. Led by Pablo M. Pinto the research orientation of the Center is interdisciplinary, with
- [Teaching (2018-2025)](https://pablopinto.com/teaching/) - Spring 2025 POLC 6320 - Fundamentals of Policy Analysis II: Political Analysis. Monday 5:30-8:30pm, 213 Bates Hall. Syllabus. Enrolled students: Check Canvas for updates, announcements and materials. POLC 6317 -Public Policy Capstone. Thursday 5:30-8:30pm, 215 Teaching Unit 2. Syllabus. Enrolled students: Check Canvas for updates, announcements and materials. Summer 2024 ECON 4390 -Social Economy and
- [The Political Determinants of Economic Performance](https://pablopinto.com/research/sources/) - Political Competition and the sources of growth Pablo M. Pinto (Columbia University) Jeffrey F. Timmons (Instituto Tecnolgico Autónomo de México) Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 38, No. 1, 26-50 (2005) DOI: https://10.1177/0010414004270886 © 2005 SAGE Publications Abstract: The authors present and test a theory about the effects of political competition on the sources of economic growth. Using Mankiw, Romer, and Weil's