Members
Addressing the targeted analysis in a comprehensive way is only possible in a collaboration of researchers with fundamental expertise in key areas of modern trade theory and trade empirics. The Research Unit brings together senior and early-career scholars from several institutions whose complementary research foci span international trade, industrial organization, labor economics, public finance, organizational economics, and quantitative empirical research.
Research Unit Spokesperson
Hartmut Egger
University of Bayreuth
Main research foci: International trade and labor markets, offshoring, wage inequality and the employment and welfare effects of globalization
Website: University profile | Personal homepage
Email: hartmut.egger@uni-bayreuth.de
Principal Investigators
Carsten Eckel
LMU Munich
Main research foci: International trade, industrial organization, labor economics and public finance, with a focus on how globalization affects firms, workers and governments
Website: University profile | Personal homepage
Email: carsten.eckel@econ.lmu.de
Hartmut Egger
University of Bayreuth
Main research foci: International trade and labor markets, offshoring, wage inequality and the employment and welfare effects of globalization
Website: University profile | Personal homepage
Email: hartmut.egger@uni-bayreuth.de
Lisandra Flach
LMU Munich and ifo Institute
Main research foci: Empirical international trade, trade policy, global value chains and firms’ responses to trade barriers and international competition
Website: ifo profile | Personal homepage
Email: lisandra.flach@econ.lmu.de
Udo Kreickemeier
University of Göttingen
Main research foci: International trade and offshoring, labor market outcomes and the distributional effects of globalization, with particular attention to differences between firms and workers
Website: University profile | Personal homepage
Email: udo.kreickemeier@uni-goettingen.de
Florian Unger
University of Göttingen
Main research foci: Credit constraints and globalization, innovation in international markets, and the effects of taxation on firms’ export decisions
Website: University profile | Personal homepage
Email: florian.unger@leuphana.de
Mercator Fellows
Michael Irlacher
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Main research foci: International trade, industrial organization and labor economics, including multiproduct firms, innovation, corporate taxation and offshoring
Website: University profile | Personal homepage
Email: michael.irlacher@jku.at
Michael Koch
Aarhus University
Main research foci: International trade, labor economics and industrial organization, with particular interests in automation, robot adoption and offshoring
Website: University profile | Personal homepage
Email: mkoch@econ.au.dk
Postdoctoral Researchers
Yaming Chang
LMU Munich
Main research foci: International trade, macroeconomicsTrade and Macroecono
Website: University profile
Email: yamingchang1@gmail.com
Enrico Cristoforoni
University of Bayreuth
Main research foci: International macroeconomics, international trade, industrial organization
Website: Personal homepage
Email: enrico.cristoforoni@uni-bayreuth.de
Martina Magli
LMU Munich
Main research foci: Intersection of international trade, applied microeconomics and public economics
Website: University profile | Personal homepage
Email: martina.magli@econ.lmu.de
Leandro Navarro
University of Bayreuth
Main research foci: International finance, international trade, risk and uncertainty, contract theory and the organization of firms
Website: University profile | Personal homepage
Email: leandro.navarro@uni-bayreuth.de
Feodora Teti
ifo Institute
Main research foci: Trade policy and geopolitics, tariffs and trade agreements, economic sanctions, and the measurement of trade barriers
Website: ifo profile | Personal homepage
Email: teti@ifo.de
Doctoral Students
Stefano Ciampa
LMU Munich
Email: stefano.ciampa@econ.lmu.de
David Erlei
University of Göttingen
Email: david.erlei@uni-goettingen.de
Jana Pera
University of Bayreuth
Email: jana.pera@uni-bayreuth.de
International Advisory Board
Paulo Bastos
World Bank
Main research foci: Firms’ productivity and industrial development, technological change in a global economy, and the distributional consequences of trade and foreign direct investment
Website: World Bank profile
Email: pbastos@worldbank.org
Banu Demir
University of Oxford
Main research foci: International trade and development, firms’ responses to trade shocks, and the implications of these responses for economic growth and income
Website: University profile | Personal homepage
Email: banu.demirpakel@economics.ox.ac.uk
Inga Heiland
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim
Main research foci: International trade and investment, migration, production and shipping networks, and the transmission of economic shocks across countries
Website: University profile | Personal homepage
Email: inga.heiland@ntnu.no
Kalina Manova
University College London
Main research foci: International production networks, multinational firms, management and innovation, trade policy, and financing constraints affecting trade and foreign investment
Website: University profile | Personal homepage
Email: k.manova@ucl.ac.uk
Marc-Andreas Muendler
University of California, San Diego
Main research foci: International trade, international finance, development economics
Website: University profile | Personal homepage
Email: muendler@ucsd.edu
Stephen Ross Yeaple
Pennsylvania State University
Main research foci: International trade, industrial organization and applied microeconomics, with a focus on multinational firms, foreign direct investment and international production
Website: University profile | Personal homepage
Email: sry3@psu.edu