I was delighted to present my paper "Barriers to Global Capital Allocation" (joint w/ E.Spolaore and Romain Wacziarg) at this year's ⛷️ Utah Winter Finance Conference 🏂 Here is a recording of the talk the paper is available on my personal webpage #econtwitter #finance

After being alerted about possible misconduct, the I4R are reproducing published papers that use data from a specific NGO (GDRI). This thread releases the first 2 reports and provides more information about the work and responses/statements from authors journals and journals. 🧵

🧵 Who enters politics? Are politicians different from the general population? In our JEEA paper (Markus Jokela, Janne Tukiainen, Åsa von Schoultz), we study Finnish politicians’ cognitive and personality traits using military conscription test data. 📊 academic.oup.com/jeea/advance-a…

📢We are pleased to share the report, “Improving the Publication Process in Economics” prepared by an ad-hoc joint AEA Journals EEA The Econometric Society RES committee - Joseph Altonji, Kevin Lang, Erzo F.P. Luttmer, Imran Rasul, Stefanie Stantcheva, Romain Wacziarg and chair Guido Imbens. Read

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/23/1 JEEA

Forthcoming article by Kevin Dano Francesco Ferlenga vincenzo galasso Caroline Le Pennec-Çaldichoury and Vincent Pons "Coordination and Incumbency Advantage in Multi-Party Systems - Evidence from French Elections" EEA Oxford Academic doi.org/10.1093/jeea/j…

Leamer’s contributions to economic research spanned more than five decades. “It is impossible to overstate his impact,” UCLA Anderson Dean Antonio Bernardo said. newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/in-mem…

🚨 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 ww.nber.org/papers/w33542 NBER Romain Wacziarg

How did Europeans overcome Malthusian pressures? They migrated overseas. Super cool paper by Guillaume Blanc & Romain Wacziarg cc Michael Clemens

My new paper with Guillaume Blanc 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. nber.org/papers/w33542

Migration served as an escape valve during the Age of Mass Migration, allowing surplus labor from high-fertility European regions to seek better opportunities in the New World, from Guillaume Blanc and Romain Wacziarg nber.org/papers/w33542

Coverage of our research on migration with Romain Wacziarg in UCLA Anderson Review anderson-review.ucla.edu/big-families-a…

👉 nber.org/papers/w33542

Congrats to Julia Cage and David Yanagizawa-Drott for winning the 2025 Yrjo Oahnsson Award -- EEA's award given every two years to European economists under 45. Super well deserved!!! eeassoc.org/awards/yrjo-ja…

I'm honored to present the April 2025 issue of the JEEA - featuring 10 outstanding papers. academic.oup.com/jeea/issue/23/2 JEEA

Happy to present the program of the NBER Summer Institute in Political Economy, which I had the privilege of co-organizing with Nancy Qian, Karam Kang and Filipe Campante. NBER nber.org/conferences/si…

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Barriers to Global Capital Allocation,” by Pellegrino (Bruno Pellegrino), Spolaore, and Wacziarg (@Rwacziarg): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

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-ab…

#DTFedea 🔴 Documento de trabajo de Bruno Pellegrino, Enrico Spolaore y Romain Wacziarg galardonado con el premio Federico Prades 2025 para jóvenes economistas de Fundación Asociación Española de Banca (AEB) 👇 📄 Barriers to Global Capital Allocation ➡️ bit.ly/4jpTSNl

The June issue of the Journal of the European Economic Association is now available for download (academic.oup.com/jeea/issue/23/3). It consists of great 10 papers from a wide range of fields of economics. JEEA