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I am an Associate Professor of Economics at JKU Linz and a Research Affiliate at CESifo. My research focuses on international economics, labor economics, and industrial organization. I hold a PhD in Economics from the University of Munich. [Link to my department website]
Contact: michael.irlacher@jku.at
Please find my CV here:
Five selected publications:
Multiproduct Firms, Horizontal Mergers, and International Trade, with Jackie M.L. Chan and Michael Koch. Forthcoming at The Review of Economics and Statistics.
Product versus Process: Innovation Strategies of Multiproduct Firms, with Lisandra Flach, 2018, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, vol. 10(1), 236-277.
Corporate Taxes and Multi-product Exporters: Theory and Evidence from Trade Dynamics, with Lisandra Flach and Florian Unger, 2021, Journal of International Economics, 103515.
Modeling Inter-regional Patient Mobility: Theory and Evidence from Spatially Explicit Data, with Dieter Pennerstorfer, Anna-Theresa Renner and Florian Unger, 2023, International Economic Review, vol. 64(4), 1493-1532.
Offshoring and Non-monotonic Employment Effects across Industries in General Equilibrium, with Daniel Baumgarten and Michael Koch, 2020, European Economic Review, vol. 130, 103583.
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