Marc-Andreas Muendler
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Marc-Andreas Muendler
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Marc-Andreas Muendler, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His fields of interest include international trade, international finance, and development economics. Muendler has published in leading economic journals including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Theory and the Review of Economics and Statistics. He has worked as a consultant to the World Bank and private businesses, and as a consulting researcher for the Brazilian labor ministry, the Brazilian census bureau, the German central bank and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002 and was a Peter B. Kenen Research Fellow at Princeton University in 2008-09. Muendler conducts research into local impacts of global markets.
In the area of international trade Marc Muendler investigates how globalization affects local industries and labor markets. Much of Muendler's research is based on novel linked data that identify firms and their individual workers over time. For Brazil, a major developing country, he analyzes the consequences of its large-scale trade liberalization in the early 1990s. With trade opening, Brazilian firms strongly improve efficiency and contribute to industrial competitiveness; but worker displacements result in idle labor outside employment, and the so foregone wage bill cuts several percentage points from GDP. For industrialized countries, Muendler studies the formation and operation of multinational enterprises and their impact on labor markets in Germany and Sweden. (more detail) In his research on firm and industry dynamics Muendler studies how firms access global destination markets by launching an optimal set of products, how potential exporters hire workers with crucial skills in preparation for foreign-market access, and how new firms enter. While Muendler's research on international trade and multinational enterprises documented how some firms lose market share and exit under global competition, as continuing firms gain market share and workers move to new job opportunities, this line of research documents how firms and industries successfully engage in globalization. Where do new firms come from? One answer is from other firms: employees with special market knowledge and skills spin off to form their own businesses. Muendler's study of employee spinoffs sheds new light on the formation of industry clusters, and on knowledge propagation through employee teams who launch joint businesses. In the area of international finance Muendler analyzes the reasons for investors to acquire information and how private information and public transparency affect financial markets. (more detail) Muendler joined UC San Diego in January 2003. Muendler taught as a lecturer at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 2002 and was a visiting Assistant Professor at Princeton University in 2008/09. Beyond his research, Muendler has an interest in international coffee trade. He lives in San Diego, California with his wife Beatriz Carvalho and son Matteo. |
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