Introducing my new paper with Clemence Tricaud. US election outcomes (margins of victory in the House, Senate and Electoral College), have become closer in recent decades, without a tightening of winning margins at the constituency level. We explain why. www.nber.org/papers/w34566
The February 2026 issue of the JEEA is out! It consists of ten great papers, including three of the four annual EEA lectures. academic.oup.com/jeea/issue/2...
I'm honored to present the April 2025 issue of the JEEA - featuring 10 outstanding papers. @jeeanews.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jeea/issue/2...
🆕 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) & @romainwacziarg.bsky.social (UCLA) discuss barriers to global capital flows: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...
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. academic.oup.com/qje/article-...
My new paper with @guillaumeblanc.bsky.social 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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Forthcoming article by Charles Louis-Sidois "Both Judge and Party? Investigating the Political Unbiasedness of Fact-checkers" @eeanews.bsky.social
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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
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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. @jeeanews.bsky.social
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Abstract. Observed international investment positions and cross-country heterogeneity in rates of return to capital are hard to reconcile with frictionless
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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...
