| Assistant Professor Department of Economics and Department of Public Administration and Policy University at Albany United States of America |
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Gerald Marschke is an Associate Professor of Economics with appointments in the Department of Economics and the Rockefeller College at the State University of New York at Albany. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in labor economics and public economics and finance.
His current research includes studies of the firm-to-firm and university-to-firm mobility of research scientists and its implications for the diffusion of technology in the economy. He has recently completed research examining the origins of the patent surge in the U.S. in the 1980s and 1990s and the relation between firm size and innovative productivity. His past research interests include empirical studies of organizational incentives and worker productivity. His work has appeared in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Labor Economics, and the Rand Journal of Economics, among other outlets.
He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago. While attending graduate school he was a research associate in the Center for Social Program Evaluation at the University of Chicago. Prior to arriving at the University at Albany, he was a Visiting Professor at the University at Buffalo.