Romain Wacziarg
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Professor at UCLA, Managing Editor of the JEEA Website:
http://wacziarg.bol.ucla.edu/
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.
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VoxDev
29 days ago
🆕 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) &
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(UCLA) discuss barriers to global capital flows:
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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...
https://voxdev.org/topic/macroeconomics-growth/why-doesnt-global-capital-flow-where-its-most-productive-developing
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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.
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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.
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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
https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qje/qjaf031/8171934
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5 months ago
Forthcoming article by Charles Louis-Sidois "Both Judge and Party? Investigating the Political Unbiasedness of Fact-checkers"
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Teaching materials available:
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I'm honored to present the April 2025 issue of the JEEA - featuring 10 outstanding papers.
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My new paper with
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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
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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...
https://www.nber.org/papers/w33542
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Guillaume Blanc
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🚨 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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Royal Economic Society
7 months ago
📣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👉
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Pol Antras
8 months ago
Very grateful to the
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for the super quick turnaround, and to the editor and referees for their constructive comments!
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EEA
9 months ago
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#EconSky
Silvana Tenreyro will give the 2025
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- FBBVA lecture "Monetary Policy and the Effective Lower Bound" 🗓️Sat, Jan 4 @ 12:30 PST 📍
#ASSA2025
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bit.ly/3DoXnEn
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9 months ago
Forthcoming article by
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Paul J Devereux, Fanny Landaud and Kjell Salvanes "The (Un)Importance of Inheritance"
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doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvae056
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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
https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvae056
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EEA
9 months ago
⬇️ recording of
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's
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- FBBVA lecture now here:
www.youtube.com/watch?si=DHX...
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9 months ago
A big welcome to our new Associate Editors Thrilled to have you on board! Alexander Bloedel, Klaus Desmet, Paula Gobbi
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Diego Känzig, Chen Lian, Benjamin Marx, Isabelle Mejean, Michael Thaler
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Guillaume Blanc
9 months ago
If you're at ASSA, consider going to the ASREC session on Sunday 8-10am, where my co-author
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will be presenting our paper "Malthusian Migrations"!
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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
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Matthias Doepke
10 months ago
The Journal of the European Economic Association (which I co-edit) is now on Bluesky:
@jeeanews.bsky.social
. Send us your best papers!
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EEA
10 months ago
📢 Pol Antràs will give the 2024
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- 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
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EEA
10 months ago
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Excellence in Refereeing Award 2024 announced 🎉Warm congrats
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Daniel Ershov, Christina Gathmann Duarte Gonçalves, Moritz Kuhn, Ro’ee Levy, Mathilde Muñoz, Pablo Schenone & Adam Storeygard
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Guillaume Blanc
10 months ago
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
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www.guillaumeblanc.com/files/theme/...
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Forthcoming article by Thomas Brzustowski and Francesco Caselli "Economic Growth in a Cooperative Economy"
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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
https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvae050
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