Department of Research

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

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Diego Restuccia
Professor; Canada Research Chair
Diego Restuccia
Employment in the Department
2010 –  
Professor
2004 – 2010
Associate Professor
1999 – 2004
Assistant Professor
Education
1998
Ph.D. Minnesota
1996
M.A. Minnesota
Research Fields
Macroeconomics, Economic development
Selected Publications
The Role of Nonemployers in Business Dynamism and Aggregate Productivity

Journal of Political Economy Macroeconomics, 2025
Pedro Bento and Diego Restuccia

Land Security and Mobility Frictions

Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2024
Tasso Adamopoulos, Loren Brandt, Chaoran Chen, Diego Restuccia, Xiaoyun Wei

Assessing misallocation in agriculture: Plots versus farms

Food Policy, 2024
Fernando Aragon, Diego Restuccia, Juan Pablo Rud

Geography and Agricultural Productivity: Cross-Country Evidence from Micro Plot-Level Data

Review of Economic Studies, 2022
Tasso Adamopoulos and Diego Restuccia

Misallocation, Selection and Productivity: A Quantitative Analysis with Panel Data from China

Econometrica, 2022
Tasso Adamopoulos, Loren Brandt, Jessica Leight, Diego Restuccia

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