Prof. Lagakos promoted to Full Professor
Prof. David Lagakos has been promoted to full professor in the Department of Economics. He is a macroeconomist who studies the determinants of economic growth in some of the world’s least developed regions. Much of his research is inspired by his experience working as the lead academic for the International Growth Centre in Ghana. He has served as an editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics and the Journal of Development Economics and is currently a research affiliate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and Centre for Economic Policy Research. His papers have appeared in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics and other prominent journals.