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About us Practical matters How to find us K.M. (Konstantin) Wacker, PhD

Research interests

I investigate questions of macroeconomic development, exploring why some countries are richer than others. I am particularly interested in interactions between economic growth, inequality, and poverty; and in the role of globalization for development and growth.

I primarily analyze those issues empirically and aim at applying and improving state-of-the-art econometric methods, especially for panel data.

Publications

Good enough for outstanding growth: The experience of Bangladesh in comparative perspective

Measuring multinational production with foreign direct investment statistics: A survey of challenges and recent developments

Drivers of growth accelerations: What role for capital accumulation?

Measuring Multinational Production with Foreign Direct Investment Statistics: Recent Trends, Challenges, and Developments

Poverty decompositions with counterfactual income and inequality dynamics

A global dataset of pandemic- and epidemic-prone disease outbreaks

Explaining the global landscape of foreign direct investment: Knowledge capital, gravity, and the role of culture and institutions

Setting the stage: growth and convergence in Ethiopia

When Do We See Poverty Convergence?

Convergence and innovation in export quality and the world income distribution

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Press/media

Das Trilemma der Inflation

Predicting epidemics isn’t easy. We’ve created a global dataset to help

Robots replace routine tasks performed by workers

How does robotization affect different tasks on the labor market?

What conditions should firms fulfill for corona support?

We do not need new taxes - do we?

National distancing as a crisis strategy

How multinationals avoid taxes and what to do about it

Multinationals avoid 1.3 bn Euro in corporate taxes

The unequal States of America

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