Konstantin M. Wacker

About

I am an associate professor at Webster Vienna Private University and an expert on the empirics of economic growth and macroeconomic development strategies.

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

Selected Publications

• Accounting for cross-country differences in output per worker: a sectoral CES perspective.
  with Jan Trenczek
  Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, in press
• How important is human capital misallocation across sectors for aggregate productivity differences? Evidence beyond Cobb-Douglas.
  with Jan Trenczek
  Macroeconomic Dynamics, forthcoming
• Estimating Interaction Effects with Panel Data
  with Chris Muris
  Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2026
• How does FDI transmit into domestic investment? Exploring intra-industry and financial channels
  with Tim de Leeuw
  Journal of Comparative Economics, 2026
• When Do We See Poverty Convergence?
  with Jesus Crespo Cuaresma and Stephan Klasen
  Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2022
• 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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