Name: Marc-Andreas Muendler
Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics

Email: mmuendler@ucsd.edu

Website: http://www.econ.ucsd.edu/muendler/
Campus Address: Economics Building (ECON) 312

Phone: (858) 534-4799


Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2002


Field of Expertise:

Marc Muendler conducts research into the local impacts of global markets. In the area of international trade he investigates how globalization affects local industries and labor markets. Much of his research is based on novel linked data on firms and their individual workers. For Brazil , a major developing country, he analyzes the consequences of its large-scale trade liberalization in the early 1990s. For industrialized countries, he studies the formation and operation of multinational enterprises and their impact on labor markets in Germany and Sweden . In the area of international finance, he analyzes the reasons for investors to acquire information and how private information and public transparency affect financial markets.

Regions of Interest: Latin America, United States

Media Interview Topics:

Muendler can provide commentary on trade and investment policies and their effects on domestic industries and labor markets. Muendler can also provide commentary on aspects of international finance and address aspects of trade in coffee.

Selected Publications:
MENEZES-FILHO, N. A., M.-A. MUENDLER, AND G. RAMEY (2008): "The
Structure of Worker Compensation in Brazil , With a Comparison to
France and the United States ," Review of Economics and Statistics,
(forthcoming)

MUENDLER, M.-A. (2007): "The Possibility of Informationally Efficient
Markets," Journal of Economic Theory, 133(1), 467-483.