Konstantin M. Wacker

Associate Professor, University of Groningen

Nettelbosje 2, Room 5411-0518
9747 AE Groningen, The Netherlands

k dot m.wacker [at] rug.nl

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About

I am an associate professor at the University of Groningen and an expert on the empirics and policies of economic growth and macroeconomic development.

I am also a regular consultant for the World Bank, a visiting researcher at Statistics Netherlands (CBS), a research fellow at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw) and a fellow at the Global Labor Organization.

My research contributed to the Horizon Europe Twin Seeds project and I managed a NWO research project on export quality in global value chains.

Research Interests

Economic Growth Development Macroeconomics Aggregate Productivity Foreign Direct Investment Export Quality Technological Change & Employment Panel Data Econometrics

Selected Publications

Accounting for cross-country differences in output per worker: a sectoral CES perspective.

with Jan Trenczek

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2026
When Do We See Poverty Convergence?

with Jesus Crespo Cuaresma and Stephan Klasen

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2022
Estimating Interaction Effects with Panel Data

with Chris Muris

Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2026
The Rise of Robots and the Fall of Routine Jobs

with Gaaitzen de Vries, Elisabetta Gentile, and Sebastien Miroudot

Labour Economics, 2020
Explaining Ethiopia's Growth Acceleration—The Role of Infrastructure and Macroeconomic Policy

with Lars Christian Moller

World Development, 2017
Measuring multinational production with foreign direct investment statistics: A survey of challenges and recent developments

with Bruno Casella and Maria Borga

Journal of Economic Surveys, 2025

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Upcoming Talks

Göttingen International Economics Workshop — February 25, 2026
INEQ Research Seminar, WU Vienna — June 15, 2026