Romain Wacziarg

The February 2026 issue of the JEEA is out! It consists of ten great papers, including three of the four annual EEA lectures. academic.oup.com/jeea/issue/2...

Electoral Margins and Political Competition Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Introducing my new paper with Clemence Tricaud. US election outcomes (margins of victory in the House, Senate and Electoral College), have become closer in recent decades, without a tightening of winning margins at the constituency level. We explain why. www.nber.org/papers/w34566

The August 2025 issue of the Journal of the European Economic Association is now published (academic.oup.com/jeea/issue/2...). It consists of 10 fantastic papers from a wide range of fields of economics. @jeeanews.bsky.social

Why doesn’t global capital flow to where it’s most productive, in developing countries? International capital flows can boost global growth and reduce inequality, but numerous geopolitical barriers distort where investment goes – often away from developing countries where it is most prod...

🆕 Why doesn’t global capital flow to where it’s most productive, in developing countries?

Today on VoxDev, Bruno Pellegrino (Columbia Business School), Enrico Spolaore (Tufts) & @romainwacziarg.bsky.social (UCLA) discuss barriers to global capital flows: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...

The June 2025 issue of the Journal of the European Economic Association is now available for download (academic.oup.com/jeea/issue/2...). It consists of great 10 papers from a wide range of fields of economics.
@jeeanews.bsky.social

Barriers to Global Capital Allocation* Abstract. Observed international investment positions and cross-country heterogeneity in rates of return to capital are hard to reconcile with frictionless

Delighted that after many years of hard work, Barriers to Global Capital Allocation (written jointly with Bruno Pellegrino and Enrico Spolaore), will be coming out in the QJE. academic.oup.com/qje/article-...

Forthcoming article by Charles Louis-Sidois "Both Judge and Party? Investigating the Political Unbiasedness of Fact-checkers" @eeanews.bsky.social

Teaching materials available: www.eeassoc.org/teaching-mat...

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I'm honored to present the April 2025 issue of the JEEA - featuring 10 outstanding papers. @jeeanews.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jeea/issue/2...

Malthusian Migrations Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

My new paper with @guillaumeblanc.bsky.social is out as an NBER Working Paper. Demographic pressures have had lasting effects on the spread of diasporas. Malthusian migrations contributed to sustained improvements in living standards in Europe in the 19th century. www.nber.org/papers/w33542

🚨 Migration as escape valve from Malthus 🚨

1) high fertility or late fertility transition -> spread of diasporas
2) Age of Mass Migration -> transition to modern growth

www.nber.org/papers/w33542

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Very glad to present the February 2025 issue of the JEEA - featuring 10 papers from some of the world's best economists, in a wide range of fields. academic.oup.com/jeea/issue/2...
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📣We are pleased to share the report “Improving the Publication Process in Economics” by an ad-hoc joint AEA-EEA-ES-RES committee - Joseph Altonji, Kevin Lang, Erzo Luttmer, Imran Rasul, Stefanie Stantcheva, Romain Wacziarg and Guido Imbens.

Read and share your views👉 buff.ly/4bg6xQi

#EconSky

Very grateful to the @jeeanews.bsky.social for the super quick turnaround, and to the editor and referees for their constructive comments! @romainwacziarg.bsky.social @Referee_1 @Referee_2 @Referee_3

📢 #EconSky Silvana Tenreyro will give the 2025
@jeeanews.bsky.social - FBBVA lecture "Monetary Policy and the Effective Lower Bound"
🗓️Sat, Jan 4 @ 12:30 PST
📍 #ASSA2025
🪑@romainwacziarg.bsky.social‬
ℹ️ bit.ly/3DoXnEn

The (UN)Importance of Inheritance Abstract. Transfers from parents—either in the form of gifts or inheritances—have received much attention as a source of inequality. This paper uses admini

Forthcoming article by @econsandy.bsky.social Paul J Devereux, Fanny Landaud and Kjell Salvanes "The (Un)Importance of Inheritance" @eeanews.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvae056

⬇️ recording of @pantras.bsky.social's @jeeanews.bsky.social - FBBVA lecture now here:
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A big welcome to our new Associate Editors
Thrilled to have you on board!
Alexander Bloedel, Klaus Desmet, Paula Gobbi @miaryc.bsky.social Diego Känzig, Chen Lian, Benjamin Marx, Isabelle Mejean, Michael Thaler @johanneswohlfart.bsky.social
@eeanews.bsky.social
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If you're at ASSA, consider going to the ASREC session on Sunday 8-10am, where my co-author @romainwacziarg.bsky.social will be presenting our paper "Malthusian Migrations"!

You'd think you were in France!

The December issue of the JEEA is out, with 10 excellent papers in fields as diverse as finance, macro, political economy, environmental economics... academic.oup.com/jeea/issue @jeeanews.bsky.social @eeanews.bsky.social

The Journal of the European Economic Association (which I co-edit) is now on Bluesky: @jeeanews.bsky.social.

Send us your best papers!

📢 Pol Antràs will give the 2024 @jeeanews.bsky.social -
FBBVA lecture "The Uncharted Waters of International Trade"
Hélène Rey will act as discussant.
🗓️Tues, Dec 10 @ 18:00 CET
📍Madrid
ℹ️on attendance & travel grants for PhD students in Spain bit.ly/41eK3MT

📢 @jeeanews.bsky.social Excellence in Refereeing Award 2024 announced
🎉Warm congrats @peterandre.bsky.social @felixchopra.bsky.social Daniel Ershov, Christina Gathmann Duarte Gonçalves, Moritz Kuhn, Ro’ee Levy, Mathilde Muñoz, Pablo Schenone & Adam Storeygard

Going to give this website a try - with a new profile picture! Definitely feels like an econ bubble, but I guess that’s the point.

Expect a thread on my newest work, Malthusian Migrations (with @romainwacziarg.bsky.social), soon! 🚨

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Economic Growth in a Cooperative Economy Abstract. We develop and formalise an equilibrium concept for a dynamic economy in which production takes place in worker cooperatives. The concept rules o

Forthcoming article by Thomas Brzustowski and Francesco Caselli "Economic Growth in a Cooperative Economy" @eeanews.bsky.social
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