Professor; Canada Research Chair Ph.D. (Minnesota, 1998), M.A. (Minnesota, 1996) Office: Max Gluskin House, 150 St. George Street, 201. Phone: 416-978-5114. Email address: Personal website: http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/diegor/ Research fields: Macroeconomics, Economic development

Selected research

• Tasso Adamopoulos, Loren Brandt, Chaoran Chen, Diego Restuccia, Xiaoyun Wei, "Land Security and Mobility Frictions", Quarterly Journal of Economics 139 (3) (2024), 1941–1987. (Freely available.)
• Fernando Aragon, Diego Restuccia, Juan Pablo Rud, "Assessing misallocation in agriculture: Plots versus farms", Food Policy 128 (October) (2024), 1–8. (Freely available.)
• Chaoran Chen, Diego Restuccia, Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis, "Land misallocation and productivity", American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 15 (2) (2023), 441–465. (Freely available.)
• Tasso Adamopoulos and Diego Restuccia, "Geography and Agricultural Productivity: Cross-Country Evidence from Micro Plot-Level Data", Review of Economic Studies 89 (4) (2022), 1629–1653. (Freely available.)
• Tasso Adamopoulos, Loren Brandt, Jessica Leight, Diego Restuccia, "Misallocation, Selection and Productivity: A Quantitative Analysis with Panel Data from China", Econometrica 90 (3) (2022), 1261–1282. (Freely available.)

Honors and awards

• Bank of Canada Fellowship Award, 2024 - 2028.
• Elected Fellow of the Econometric Society, 2024.
• Canada Research Chair in Macroeconomics and Productivity (Tier 1), 2022 - 2029.
• Structural Transformation and Economic Growth (STEG) Special Lecture, 2021.
• Bank of Canada Fellowship Award, 2019 - 2023.
• State of the Art Lecture, Canadian Economic Association, 2017.
• Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), 2016 - present.
• Canada Research Chair in Macroeconomics and Productivity (Tier 1), 2015 - 2022.

Courses taught 2024–2025

• Fall

• ECO2120H1F, section L5101 (St. George) • Topics in Growth and Development • M5-7 • GE 100
• ECO362H1F, section L0101 (St. George) • Economic Growth • M2-5

• Winter

• ECO451H1S, section L0101 (St. George) • Macroeconomic Growth • M2-5