Background and professional life
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 UniversitéParis 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:
- The relationship between trade liberalization and growth;
- The long-run determinants of growth and development;
- The determinants of the first demographic transition;
- The causes of inter-state conflict;
- The effects of democratization on economic growth;
- The pattern of sectoral diversification in relation to economic development;
- The effect of cultural distance between countries on the diffusion of technology and development. [14]
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