Marc-Andreas Muendler is a Professor in the Economics Department at the University of California, San Diego, a Research Professor at ifo Institute in Munich, a Guest Professor at the University of St. Gallen, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has published in leading economic journals on the origins of globalization and its consequences for local industries and labor markets, firm dynamics and entrepreneurship, and information economics. He has worked as a consultant to the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and private businesses, and as a consulting researcher for the Brazilian census bureau and labor ministry, 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. Marc Muendler founded and directs the Globalization and Prosperity lab (GP-lab) at UC San Diego.
