Konstantin M. Wacker

Konstantin M. Wacker
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

List of Publications

External Publications

External Publications

Articles in refereed journals
  • '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
  • '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
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