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Romain Wacziarg

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First Name:Romain
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http://wacziarg.bol.ucla.edu
Anderson School of Management at UCLA 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles CA 90095-1481
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Terminal Degree:1998 Department of Economics; Harvard University (from RePEc Genealogy)

Affiliation

(50%) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
http://www.nber.org/
RePEc:edi:nberrus (more details at EDIRC)

(50%) Anderson Graduate School of Management
University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

Los Angeles, California (United States)
http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/
RePEc:edi:aguclus (more details at EDIRC)

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Working papers

  1. Desmet, Klaus & Ali, Omer & Wacziarg, Romain, 2023. "Does Anger Drive Populism?," CEPR Discussion Papers 18266, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  2. Bruno Pellegrino & Enrico Spolaore & Romain Wacziarg, 2021. "Barriers to Global Capital Allocation," CESifo Working Paper Series 9086, CESifo.
  3. Desmet, Klaus & Wacziarg, Romain, 2020. "Understanding Spatial Variation in COVID-19 across the United States," CEPR Discussion Papers 14842, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  4. Giuliano, Paola & Wacziarg, Romain, 2020. "Who Voted for Trump? Populism and Social Capital," CEPR Discussion Papers 15140, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  5. Enrico Spolaore & Romain Wacziarg, 2019. "Fertility and Modernity," CESifo Working Paper Series 7745, CESifo.
  6. Guillaume Blanc & Romain Wacziarg, 2019. "Change and Persistence in the Age of Modernization: Saint-Germain-d'Anxure 1730-1895," NBER Working Papers 25490, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  7. Desmet, Klaus & Wacziarg, Romain, 2018. "The Cultural Divide," CEPR Discussion Papers 12947, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  8. Enrico Spolaore & Romain Wacziarg, 2016. "The Political Economy of Heterogeneity and Conflict," CESifo Working Paper Series 6258, CESifo.
  9. Enrico Spolaore & Romain Wacziarg, 2016. "Ancestry and Development: New Evidence," Discussion Papers Series, Department of Economics, Tufts University 0820, Department of Economics, Tufts University.
  10. Wacziarg, Romain & Desmet, Klaus & Ortuño-Ortin, Ignacio, 2015. "Culture, Ethnicity and Diversity," CEPR Discussion Papers 10451, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  11. Enrico Spolaore & Romain Wacziarg, 2015. "Ancestry, Language and Culture," CESifo Working Paper Series 5388, CESifo.
  12. Spolaore, Enrico & Wacziarg, Romain, 2013. "Long-Term Barriers to Economic Development," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 149, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
  13. Enrico Spolaore & Romain Wacziarg, 2012. "How Deep are the Roots of Economic Development?," CESifo Working Paper Series 3837, CESifo.
  14. Spolaore, Enrico & Wacziarg, Romain, 2011. "Long-Term Barriers to the International Diffusion of Innovations," CEPR Discussion Papers 8541, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  15. Wacziarg, Romain & Murtin, Fabrice, 2011. "The Democratic Transition," CEPR Discussion Papers 8599, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  16. Klaus Desmet & Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín & Romain Wacziarg, 2011. "The Political Economy of Linguistic Cleavages," Working Papers of VIVES - Research Centre for Regional Economics 20, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), VIVES - Research Centre for Regional Economics.
  17. Wacziarg, Romain & Desmet, Klaus & Ortuño-Ortin, Ignacio, 2009. "The Political Economy of Ethnolinguistic Cleavages," CEPR Discussion Papers 7478, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  18. Enrico Spolaore & Romain Wacziarg, 2009. "War and Relatedness," CESifo Working Paper Series 2696, CESifo.
  19. Spolaore, Enrico & Wacziarg, Romain, 2006. "The Diffusion of Development," CEPR Discussion Papers 5630, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  20. Lorentzen, Peter & McMillan, John & Wacziarg, Romain, 2005. "Death and Development," CEPR Discussion Papers 5246, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  21. Wacziarg, Romain & Spolaore, Enrico, 2005. "Borders and Growth," CEPR Discussion Papers 5202, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  22. William R. Hauk & Romain Wacziarg, 2004. "A Monte Carlo Study of Growth Regressions," NBER Technical Working Papers 0296, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  23. Wacziarg, Romain & Welch, Karen Horn, 2003. "Trade Liberalization and Growth: New Evidence," Research Papers 1826, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business.
  24. Alberto Alesina & Enrico Spolaore & Romain Wacziarg, 2003. "Trade, Growth, and the Size of Countries," Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers 1995, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research.
  25. Wacziarg, Romain & Alesina, Alberto & Devleeschauwer, Arnaud & Easterly, William & Kurlat, Sergio, 2002. "Fractionalization," Research Papers 1744, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business.
  26. Wacziarg, Romain, 2002. "India in the World Trading System," Research Papers 1760, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business.
  27. Wacziarg, Romain & Seddon, Jessica, 2000. "Trade Liberalization and Intersectoral Labor Movements," Research Papers 1652, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business.
  28. Wacziarg, Romain & Spolaore, Enrico & Alesina, Alberto, 2000. "Economic Integration and Political Disintegration," Scholarly Articles 4553029, Harvard University Department of Economics.
  29. Wacziarg, Romain, 2000. "Measuring the Dynamic Gains from Trade," Research Papers 1654, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business.
  30. Imbs, Jean & Wacziarg, Romain, 2000. "Stages of Diversification," CEPR Discussion Papers 2642, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  31. Wacziarg, Romain & Alesina, Alberto, 1999. "Is Europe Going Too Far?," Scholarly Articles 4553012, Harvard University Department of Economics.
  32. Romain Wacziarg & Mr. Athanasios Vamvakidis, 1998. "Developing Countries and the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle," IMF Working Papers 1998/002, International Monetary Fund.
  33. Wacziarg, Romain & Alesina, Alberto, 1998. "Openness, Country Size and Government," Scholarly Articles 4553014, Harvard University Department of Economics.

Articles

  1. Pierre Dubois & Jonas Hjort & Guido Lorenzoni & Nicola Pavoni & Giovanni Peri & Vasiliki Skreta & Romain Wacziarg & Andrea Weber, 2023. "Reflecting on the First 20 Years of the Journal of the European Economic Association," Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Association, vol. 21(5), pages 1-33.
  2. Enrico Spolaore & Romain Wacziarg, 2022. "Fertility and Modernity," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 132(642), pages 796-833.
  3. Desmet, Klaus & Wacziarg, Romain, 2022. "JUE Insight: Understanding spatial variation in COVID-19 across the United States," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 127(C).
  4. Klaus Desmet & Romain Wacziarg, 2021. "The Cultural Divide," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 131(637), pages 2058-2088.
  5. Blanc, Guillaume & Wacziarg, Romain, 2020. "Change and persistence in the Age of Modernization: Saint-Germain-d’Anxure, 1730–1895," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 78(C).
  6. Enrico Spolaore & Romain Wacziarg, 2018. "Ancestry and development: New evidence," Journal of Applied Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 33(5), pages 748-762, August.
  7. Klaus Desmet & Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín & Romain Wacziarg, 2017. "Culture, Ethnicity, and Diversity," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 107(9), pages 2479-2513, September.
  8. Enrico Spolaore & Romain Wacziarg, 2016. "War and Relatedness," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 98(5), pages 925-939, December.
  9. Fabrice Murtin & Romain Wacziarg, 2014. "The democratic transition," Journal of Economic Growth, Springer, vol. 19(2), pages 141-181, June.
  10. Enrico Spolaore & Romain Wacziarg, 2013. "How Deep Are the Roots of Economic Development?," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 51(2), pages 325-369, June.
  11. Romain Wacziarg, 2012. "The First Law of Petropolitics," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 79(316), pages 641-657, October.
  12. Desmet, Klaus & Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio & Wacziarg, Romain, 2012. "The political economy of linguistic cleavages," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 97(2), pages 322-338.
  13. Enrico Spolaore & Romain Wacziarg, 2012. "Long-Term Barriers to the International Diffusion of Innovations," NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 8(1), pages 11-46.
  14. Enrico Spolaore & Romain Wacziarg, 2009. "The Diffusion of Development," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 124(2), pages 469-529.
  15. William Hauk & Romain Wacziarg, 2009. "A Monte Carlo study of growth regressions," Journal of Economic Growth, Springer, vol. 14(2), pages 103-147, June.
  16. Romain Wacziarg & Karen Horn Welch, 2008. "Trade Liberalization and Growth: New Evidence," The World Bank Economic Review, World Bank, vol. 22(2), pages 187-231, June.
  17. Peter Lorentzen & John McMillan & Romain Wacziarg, 2008. "Death and development," Journal of Economic Growth, Springer, vol. 13(2), pages 81-124, June.
  18. Hauk, William R. & Wacziarg, Romain, 2007. "Small States, Big Pork," Quarterly Journal of Political Science, now publishers, vol. 2(1), pages 95-106, March.
  19. Dani Rodrik & Romain Wacziarg, 2005. "Do Democratic Transitions Produce Bad Economic Outcomes?," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 95(2), pages 50-55, May.
  20. Enrico Spolaore & Romain Wacziarg, 2005. "Borders and Growth," Journal of Economic Growth, Springer, vol. 10(4), pages 331-386, December.
  21. Wacziarg, Romain & Wallack, Jessica Seddon, 2004. "Trade liberalization and intersectoral labor movements," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 64(2), pages 411-439, December.
  22. Alesina, Alberto & Devleeschauwer, Arnaud & Easterly, William & Kurlat, Sergio & Wacziarg, Romain, 2003. "Fractionalization," Journal of Economic Growth, Springer, vol. 8(2), pages 155-194, June.
  23. Jean Imbs & Romain Wacziarg, 2003. "Stages of Diversification," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 93(1), pages 63-86, March.
  24. Romain Wacziarg, 2002. "Review of Easterly's The Elusive Quest for Growth," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 40(3), pages 907-918, September.
  25. Romain Wacziarg, 2001. "Measuring the Dynamic Gains from Trade," The World Bank Economic Review, World Bank, vol. 15(3), pages 393-39-429.
  26. Tavares, Jose & Wacziarg, Romain, 2001. "How democracy affects growth," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 45(8), pages 1341-1378, August.
  27. Enrico Spolaore & Alberto Alesina & Romain Wacziarg, 2000. "Economic Integration and Political Disintegration," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 90(5), pages 1276-1296, December.
  28. Alesina, Alberto & Wacziarg, Romain, 1999. "Is Europe going too far?," Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, Elsevier, vol. 51(1), pages 1-42, December.
  29. Alesina, Alberto & Wacziarg, Romain, 1998. "Openness, country size and government," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 69(3), pages 305-321, September.

Chapters

  1. Spolaore, Enrico & Wacziarg, Romain, 2014. "Long-Term Barriers to Economic Development," Handbook of Economic Growth, in: Philippe Aghion & Steven Durlauf (ed.), Handbook of Economic Growth, edition 1, volume 2, chapter 3, pages 121-176, Elsevier.
  2. Enrico Spolaore & Romain Wacziarg, 2011. "Long-Term Barriers to the International Diffusion of Innovations," NBER Chapters, in: NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2011, pages 11-46, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  3. Alesina, Alberto & Spolaore, Enrico & Wacziarg, Romain, 2005. "Trade, Growth and the Size of Countries," Handbook of Economic Growth, in: Philippe Aghion & Steven Durlauf (ed.), Handbook of Economic Growth, edition 1, volume 1, chapter 23, pages 1499-1542, Elsevier.

Books

  1. Romain Wacziarg (ed.), 2018. "Trade Liberalization," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 17899.

Editorship

  1. Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Association.

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  1. NEP-DEV: Development (20) 2002-09-28 2003-01-05 2003-12-14 2004-01-25 2005-09-29 2005-09-29 2006-04-22 2006-04-29 2007-01-13 2007-09-30 2009-07-03 2009-11-27 2009-11-27 2010-01-10 2012-06-13 2012-06-25 2013-09-24 2013-09-26 2014-04-18 2014-06-02. Author is listed
  2. NEP-HIS: Business, Economic and Financial History (16) 2011-08-15 2011-09-22 2011-10-22 2012-06-25 2013-09-24 2013-09-26 2014-04-18 2014-06-02 2014-10-03 2015-08-01 2016-07-02 2018-06-18 2018-06-25 2019-02-04 2019-07-08 2019-08-19. Author is listed
  3. NEP-EVO: Evolutionary Economics (14) 2013-09-24 2014-04-18 2014-04-18 2014-06-02 2014-10-03 2015-03-05 2015-06-05 2015-06-13 2015-07-04 2015-08-01 2016-07-02 2018-06-18 2019-07-08 2019-08-19. Author is listed
  4. NEP-GRO: Economic Growth (14) 2014-04-18 2014-04-18 2014-10-03 2015-03-05 2015-06-05 2015-06-13 2015-07-04 2015-08-01 2016-07-02 2018-06-18 2018-06-25 2019-02-04 2019-07-08 2019-08-19. Author is listed
  5. NEP-POL: Positive Political Economics (11) 2009-09-26 2009-11-27 2010-01-10 2011-09-22 2011-10-22 2015-08-01 2017-05-07 2017-11-26 2020-09-07 2021-05-31 2023-07-31. Author is listed
  6. NEP-CUL: Cultural Economics (6) 2015-03-05 2015-03-05 2015-06-13 2015-07-04 2018-06-18 2018-06-25. Author is listed
  7. NEP-CWA: Central and Western Asia (6) 2011-09-22 2011-10-22 2012-07-01 2013-09-24 2013-09-26 2021-05-24. Author is listed
  8. NEP-URE: Urban and Real Estate Economics (6) 2015-03-05 2015-06-05 2015-06-13 2015-07-04 2020-07-13 2021-06-21. Author is listed
  9. NEP-CDM: Collective Decision-Making (5) 2017-05-07 2017-11-26 2020-09-14 2021-05-31 2023-07-31. Author is listed
  10. NEP-SOC: Social Norms and Social Capital (5) 2015-03-05 2018-06-18 2018-06-25 2020-09-07 2021-05-31. Author is listed
  11. NEP-OPM: Open Economy Macroeconomics (4) 2011-08-15 2011-08-29 2021-04-26 2021-05-24
  12. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (3) 2011-09-22 2011-10-22 2015-03-05
  13. NEP-DEM: Demographic Economics (2) 2019-07-08 2019-08-19
  14. NEP-DGE: Dynamic General Equilibrium (2) 2021-04-26 2021-05-24
  15. NEP-EEC: European Economics (2) 1999-02-08 2014-10-03
  16. NEP-EFF: Efficiency and Productivity (2) 2011-08-15 2011-08-29
  17. NEP-GEO: Economic Geography (2) 2020-07-13 2021-06-21
  18. NEP-HEA: Health Economics (2) 2005-09-29 2007-01-13
  19. NEP-LTV: Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty (2) 2021-05-31 2023-07-31
  20. NEP-MAC: Macroeconomics (2) 2021-04-26 2021-05-24
  21. NEP-MFD: Microfinance (2) 2015-03-05 2015-03-05
  22. NEP-MIC: Microeconomics (2) 2017-05-07 2017-11-26
  23. NEP-AFR: Africa (1) 2007-01-13
  24. NEP-CIS: Confederation of Independent States (1) 2011-10-22
  25. NEP-CMP: Computational Economics (1) 2004-01-25
  26. NEP-CSE: Economics of Strategic Management (1) 2014-06-02
  27. NEP-EUR: Microeconomic European Issues (1) 2014-10-03
  28. NEP-FDG: Financial Development and Growth (1) 2021-05-24
  29. NEP-FOR: Forecasting (1) 2007-01-13
  30. NEP-HPE: History and Philosophy of Economics (1) 2013-09-26
  31. NEP-INO: Innovation (1) 2011-08-15
  32. NEP-INT: International Trade (1) 2021-05-24
  33. NEP-MIG: Economics of Human Migration (1) 2015-03-05
  34. NEP-PBE: Public Economics (1) 2009-11-27

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