Romain Wacziarg | |
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| Born | January 6, 1970 |
| Occupation | Economist |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Harvard University (PhD) Université Paris Dauphine (DEA) Sciences Po (Diplôme) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Economics |
| Sub-discipline | Political economy International economics Economic growth Economic development |
| Institutions | UCLA Anderson School of Management Stanford Graduate School of Business National Bureau of Economic Research |
| Website | http://wacziarg.bol.ucla.edu |
Romain Wacziarg (born 1970) is an economist who has served as a professor of economics at the UCLA Anderson School of Management since 2011, where he has also held the Hans Hufschmid Chair in Management since 2015.[1][2] He was previously a professor of economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.[1] His research interests span international economics, political economy, economic growth, and economic development.[3][4]
Wacziarg was born in Switzerland in 1970, and raised in India and France.[2] He received a diplôme in economics and public policy from the Institute d'Études Politiques de Paris in 1990, a DEA in economics from the Université Paris Dauphine in 1992, and a PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1998, where he was advised by Robert Barro, Alberto Alesina, and Dale Jorgenson.[1][5] Whilst a doctoral student at Harvard, he worked for the World Bank as short-term consultant between 1996 and 1997.[1]
In 1998, Wacziarg became an assistant professor within the Political Economy Group at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was appointed an associate professor in 2002, and was tenured in 2006.[1][6] In 2008, he moved to the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he became a full professor in 2011, and was appointed to the Hans Hufschmid Chair in Management in 2015.[1][7][8][9] In 2021, he was appointed a co-editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association, and became its managing editor in 2023.[10][11]
Wacziarg was the Edward Teller National Fellow at the Hoover Institution between 2002 and 2003, and has been a research associate at the NBER since 2006.[12][1][13]
Wacziarg's research covers a variety of topics, including:
