Organizer: Monica Morlacco and Robert Dekle

The seminar talks are hosted each Thursday from 12:30 PM through 1:45 PM, Pacific Time, at HOH 114 (Marshall)

Diego Restuccia is a Professor of Economics and a Canada Research Chair  in Macroeconomics and Productivity at the University of Toronto. He was elected Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2024. He is also a Research Associate  at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in Cambridge MA (USA) and a Research Associate at Theoretical Research in Development Economics (ThReD). He received the Bank of Canada Fellowship Award in 2019 and 2024.

Professor Restuccia's research focuses on macroeconomics, international productivity, and labor markets, with an emphasis on cross-country differences in economic performance. His recent work examines the role of resource allocation of economic factors such as capital and labor across firms or sectors in accounting for macroeconomic outcomes. His work has appeared in leading economic journals such as the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Econometrica, and the Review of Economic Studies. Professor Restuccia received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota and an undergraduate degree from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas (Venezuela). Professor Restuccia was born in Montevideo (Uruguay).