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Core Team

  • Marc Muendler

    Marc Muendler

    Marc-Andreas Muendler is Professor of economics at UC San Diego. Marc studies the origins of globalization and its consequences for local industries and labor markets as well as firm dynamics and entrepreneurship. Marc is also a Research Professor at ifo Institute Munich, a Guest Professor at the University of St. Gallen, and a Research Associate at the NBER. He received his Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley in 2002. 
  • Fabian Trottner

    Fabian Trottner

    Fabian Trottner is Assistant Professor of economics at UC San Diego. Fabian studies international trade, international macroeconomics and labor markets. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 2020.
  • Junyuan Chen

    Junyuan Chen

    Junyuan Chen holds a Ph.D. in economics from UC San Diego and is now a post-doc at GP-lab. His main research interest is in macroeconomics. He studies the role of inventories for macroeconomic outcomes and investigates short-term adjustments of the open macroeconomy to trade. Junyuan combines quantitative theory models with empirical methods to address real-world questions. He is the main author of the Julia code behind the cModel.`
  • Renata Abbott Navarrete

    Renata Abbott Navarrete

    Renata Abbott Navarrete is a doctoral candidate in economics at UC San Diego. Renata's research brings large-scale microeconomic data on firm-to-firm transactions to the analysis of macroeconomic phenomena.