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Overview

Romain Wacziarg is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of economics, econometrics, finance, and social sciences, with a focus on several interconnected subfields.

Their work covers key areas including economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, finance, general economics, econometrics and finance, and accounting. This multidisciplinary approach supports research themes such as the global financial crisis and policies, economic policies and impacts, corporate taxation and avoidance, global trade and economics, historical economic and social studies, culture, economy, and development studies, as well as COVID-19 epidemiological studies.

Romain Wacziarg has contributed to various publication venues, most frequently publishing in the SSRN Electronic Journal. Other venues include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Urban Economics, Science Advances, and The Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Their recent papers demonstrate a wide range of topics and collaborations. Notable recent publications include:

  • JUE Insight: Understanding spatial variation in COVID-19 across the United States, 2021, Journal of Urban Economics
  • Disentangling the evolutionary drivers of social complexity: A comprehensive test of hypotheses, 2022, Science Advances
  • Change and persistence in the Age of Modernization: Saint-Germain-d'Anxure, 1730-1895, 2020, Explorations in Economic History
  • Barriers to Global Capital Allocation, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Barriers to Global Capital Allocation, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal

Collaborative efforts are a significant part of their research output. Frequent co-authors include Enrico Spolaore, Bruno Pellegrino, Klaus Desmet, Guillaume Blanc, and Mickael Melki.

Best Publications

  • Fractionalization

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  • Trade Liberalization and Growth: New Evidence

    Romain Wacziarg;Karen Horn Welch

  • Stages of Diversification

    Jean Imbs;Romain Wacziarg;Romain Wacziarg

  • Openness, Country Size and Government

    Romain Wacziarg;Alberto Alesina

  • How Democracy Affects Growth

    José Tavares;Romain Wacziarg

  • Economic Integration and Political Disintegration

    Romain Wacziarg;Enrico Spolaore;Alberto Alesina

  • The Diffusion of Development

    Enrico Spolaore;Romain Wacziarg

  • Openness, country size and government

    Alberto Alesina;Romain Wacziarg

  • Measuring the Dynamic Gains from Trade

    Romain Wacziarg

  • Economic Integration and Political Disintegration

    Alberto Alesina;Enrico Spolaore;Romain Wacziarg

  • Death and development

    Peter Lorentzen;John McMillan;John McMillan;Romain Wacziarg;Romain Wacziarg;Romain Wacziarg

  • How Deep Are the Roots of Economic Development

    Enrico Spolaore;Romain Wacziarg

  • Trade, Growth and the Size of Countries

    Alberto Alesina;Enrico Spolaore;Romain Wacziarg

  • Trade, Growth and the Size of Countries

    Alberto Alesina;Enrico Spolaore;Romain Wacziarg

  • Do Democratic Transitions Produce Bad Economic Outcomes

    Dani Rodrik;Romain Wacziarg

  • The political economy of linguistic cleavages

    Klaus Desmet;Klaus Desmet;Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín;Romain Wacziarg;Romain Wacziarg

  • A Monte Carlo study of growth regressions

    William R. Hauk;Romain Wacziarg;Romain Wacziarg;Romain Wacziarg

  • Trade liberalization and intersectoral labor movements

    Romain Wacziarg;Jessica Seddon Wallack

  • Culture, Ethnicity, and Diversity

    Klaus Desmet;Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín;Romain Wacziarg

  • The democratic transition

    Fabrice Murtin;Romain Wacziarg;Romain Wacziarg;Romain Wacziarg

  • Trade Liberalization and Growth: New Evidence

    Romain Wacziarg;Karen Horn Welch

  • Measuring the Dynamics Gains from Trade

    Romain Wacziarg

  • Trade Liberalization and Growth: New Evidence

    Romain T. Wacziarg;Romain T. Wacziarg;Karen Horn Welch

  • JUE Insight: Understanding spatial variation in COVID-19 across the United States

    Klaus Desmet;Klaus Desmet;Romain Wacziarg

  • Openness, Country Size and the Government

    Alberto F. Alesina;Alberto F. Alesina;Alberto F. Alesina;Romain T. Wacziarg;Romain T. Wacziarg

  • Borders and Growth

    Enrico Spolaore;Romain Wacziarg

  • Trade, Growth and the Size of Countries

    Romain T. Wacziarg;Romain T. Wacziarg;Enrico Spolaore;Alberto F. Alesina;Alberto F. Alesina;Alberto F. Alesina

Frequent Co-Authors

Alberto Alesina
Alberto Alesina Harvard University
John McMillan
John McMillan Stanford University
Anthony J. Venables
Anthony J. Venables University of Manchester
Lant Pritchett
Lant Pritchett London School of Economics and Political Science
Barry Eichengreen
Barry Eichengreen University of California, Berkeley
Thorvaldur Gylfason
Thorvaldur Gylfason University of Iceland
Charles R. Plott
Charles R. Plott California Institute of Technology
Peter J. Richerson
Peter J. Richerson University of California, Davis
Jeffrey R. Vincent
Jeffrey R. Vincent Duke University

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