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Konstantin M. Wacker

• Curriculum Vitae
• List of Publications

Research Associate

email: k.m.wacker@rug.nl
telephone: +43(1)5336610

Konstantin M. Wacker is research associate at wiiw, associate professor at the University of Groningen (Netherlands), and visiting researcher at Statistics Netherlands (CBS). His research focuses at the intersection of international economics (especially FDI and export quality) and economic growth. He has worked and consulted for the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank, UNU-WIDER, and the Austrian Central Bank.

Austria, Vienna

External Publications

• 'Measuring multinational production with foreign direct investment statistics: A survey of challenges and recent developments' (with Maria Borga and Bruno Casella), Wiley, Journal of Economic Surveys, September 2024
• 'Good enough for outstanding growth: The experience of Bangladesh in comparative perspective' (with Robert C. M. Beyer), Wiley, Development policy Review, Volume 42, Issue 2, March 2024, e12750
• 'Drivers of growth accelerations: What role for capital accumulation?' (with Eline Koopman), Elsevier, Dorld Development, Volume 169, September 2023, 106297
• 'Poverty decompositions with counterfactual income and inequality dynamics' (with Vanessa Hartmann), Wiley, Review of Development Economics, Volume 27, Issue 3, August 2023, pp. 1746-1768
• 'When Do We See Poverty Convergence?' (with Jesús Crespo-Cuaresma and Stephan Klasen), Wiley, Oxford Bulletin of Economic and Statistics, Volume 84, Issue 6, December 2022, pp. 1283-1301
• 'A global dataset of pandemic- and epidemic-prone disease outbreaks' (with Florina Cristina Badarau, Luis Rodrigo Díaz Pavez, Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso and Juan Armando Torres Munguía), Springer Nature Ltd., Scientific Data, 9, November 2022, 683
• 'Explaining the global landscape of foreign direct investment: Knowledge capital, gravity, and the role of culture and institutions' (with Sophie Therese Schneider), Wiley, The World Economy, Volume 45, Issue 10, October 2022, pp. 3080-3108
• 'The rise of robots and the fall of routine jobs' (with Gaaitzen J. De Vries, Elisabetta Gentile and Sébastien Miroudot), Elsevier, Labour Economics, Volume 66, October 2020, 101885
• 'Financial globalisation and the labour share in developing countries: The type of capital matters' (with Katharina van Treeck), Wiley, The World Economy, Volume 43, Issue 9, September 2020, pp. 2343-2374
• 'Who is Afraid of Informal Competition? The Role of Finance for Firms in Developing and Emerging Economies' (with Julia Friesen), The European Journal of Development Research, Volume 31, Issue 4, September 2019, pp. 1126–1146
• 'The special issue on FDI and multinational corporations: an introduction' (with Philipp Harms), Econometrics, The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, Vol. 13, 2019-24, March 2019, pp. 1-7
• 'Restructuring the SOE Sector in Vietnam', Elsevier, Journal of Southeast Asian Economies, Vol. 34, No. 2, August 2017, pp. 283-301
• 'Explaining Ethiopia’s Growth Acceleration—The Role of Infrastructure and Macroeconomic Policy' (with Lars Christian Moller), Elsevier, World Development, Volume 96, August 2017, pp. 198-215
• 'Poverty and Shared Prosperity: Let’s Move the Discussion Beyond Growth' (with Kassia Antoine and Raju Jan Singh), Taylor & Francis, Forum for Social Economics, Volume 46, Issue 2, 2017, pp. 192-205
• 'Do Multinationals Deteriorate Developing Countries' Export Prices? The Impact of FDI on Net Barter Terms of Trade', The World Economy, Volume 39, Issue 12, December 2016, pp. 1974-1999
• '(When) Should We Use Foreign Direct Investment Data to Measure the Activities of Multinational Corporations? Theory and Evidence', Review of International Economics, Volume 24, Issue 5, November 2016, pp. 980-999
• 'The role of information for international capital flows: new evidence from the SDDS' (with Yuko Hashimoto), Review of World Economics, Volume 152, August 2016, pp. 529-557
• 'Foreign Direct Investment, Terms of Trade, and Quality Upgrading: What Is So Special about South Asia?' (with Philipp Grosskurth and Tabea Lakemann), Asian Development Review, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2016, pp. 28-55
• 'Assaf, Razin: Understanding global crises: an emerging paradigm', Journal of Econometrics, Volume 117, April 2016, pp. 285-287

• Beyond Commodities: The Growth Challenge of Latin America and the Caribbean (with Markus Brueckner, Mateo Clavijo, Jorge Thompson Araujo and Ekaterina Vostroknutova), Latin American Development Forum, World Bank Group, Washington, D.C., 2016
• Understanding the Income and Efficiency Gap in Latin America and the Caribbean (with Mateo Clavijo, Jorge Thompson Araujo and Ekaterina Vostroknutova), Mateo Clavijo, Jorge Thompson Araujo, Ekaterina Vostroknutova and Konstantin M. Wacker (eds), Directions in Development - Countries and Regions, World Bank Group, Washington, D.C., 2016
• Empirical Aspects of Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Development, Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2013

• 'Poverty Trap', in: Fathali M. Moghaddam (eds), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Political Behavior, Chapter, SAGE Publications, Inc., 2017, pp. 642-644
• 'Globalization and Female Labor Force Participation in Developing Countries: An Empirical (Re-)Assessment' (with Arusha Cooray and Isis Gaddis), in: Bent Jesper Christensen and Carsten Kowalczyk (eds), Globalization: Strategies and Effects, Chapter, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, March 2017, pp. 545–583

• 'Differences in measuring FDI: do they matter for our economic conclusions?', IFC Bulletin, No. 52, October 2020

• 'Leveraging Growth Regressions for Country Analysis' (with Robert C. M. Beyer and Lars Christian Moller), World Bank Group, Policy Research working paper, no. WPS 10751, Washington, D.C., April 2024
• 'Investment incomes vs. the trade balance: Is the current account still a meaningful concept?', Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB), Working Paper, No. 256, Vienna, 2024
• 'Human Capital Misallocation and Output per Worker Differences: Beyond Cobb-Douglas' (with Jan Trenczek), Global Labor Organization (GLO), GLO Discussion Paper, No. 1331, October 2023
• 'Accounting for cross-country output differences: A sectoral CES perspective' (with Jan Trenczek), International Network for Economic Research (INFER), Working Paper, No. 9, 2023
• 'Measuring Multinational Production with Foreign Direct Investment Statistics: Recent Trends, Challenges, and Developments' (with Maria Borga and Bruno Casella), IMF Working Paper, No. 113, 2023
• 'Estimating interaction effects with panel data' (with Chris Muris), Cornell University, arXiv:2211.01557, 2022
• 'Good Enough for Outstanding Growth: The Experience of Bangladesh in Comparative Perspective' (with Robert C. M. Beyer), World Bank Group, Policy Research working paper, no. WPS 10150, Washington, D.C., 2022
• 'Convergence and innovation in export quality and the world income distribution' (with Jan Trenczek), University of Gronigen, GGDC Research Memorandum, 188, January 2021
• 'Understanding Economic Growth in Ghana in Comparative Perspective ' (with Michael Geiger and Jan Trenczek), World Bank Group, Policy Research working paper, no. WPS 8699, Washington, D.C., January 2019
• 'Measuring Financial Conditions in Major Non-Euro Area Economies' (with David Lodge and Giulio Nicoletti), European Central Bank (ECB), Working Paper Series, No. 1743, November 2014