APSD0002

Written evidence submitted by Dr. Swati Dhingra

London School of Economics

Associate Professor (Reader), Department of Economics                                                         2017-

Assistant Professor (Lecturer), Department of Economics                                               2011-2017

Research Associate, Trade Programme, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE                             2011-

Research Fellow, Trade and Urban Programme, Centre for Economic Policy Research               2012-
 

Bocconi University, Visiting Professor                                                                                        2017-2018

Cambridge, Sciences Po, Oxford, EIEF, Academic Visitor                                                            2014-2017

Princeton University, Fellow (Post-doc), Department of Economics                                2010-2011

Ph.D. Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison                                                                       2010

M.S. Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison                                                                                     2006

M.A. Economics, Delhi School of Economics                                                                                     2003

B.A. (Honours) Economics, University of Delhi                                                                                     2001

Board of Trustees, Royal Mint Museum                                                                                                  2021-

Expert Panel, Trade Modelling Review, Department of International Trade                                2020-2021

Economic Recovery Taskforce on Investment, BEIS, United Kingdom                                           2020

Commissioner, LSE Economic Diplomacy Commission 2019-2020

Steering Group, Economy 2030 UK’s New Economic Model, CEP-Resolution Foundation-Nuffield Foundation                                                                                                                                             2021-

Royal Economic Society                                                                                                                               2021-

Elected Member of the Council

Academic Lead for RES Presents
 

Editorial Board, Review of Economic Studies, Indian Economic Review                             2018-, 2019-

Associate Editor, Economic Journal, Journal of International Economics                             2021-, 2015-
 

Programme Lead: Econometric Society and European Economic Association                             2018-

Programme Committee: Indian Statistical Institute, Royal Economic Society, Society of Economic Dynamics                                                                                                                                   2013-2017

ERC Starting Grant, BIGlobal: Market Power and Firm Growth in the Global Economy, Euro1.3mn                                                                                                                                                 2017-2022

Norwegian Science Foundation Grant for Brexit and Services Trade, GBP 80k                             2022-

UKRI, Real-time Economic Effects of Covid-19 in UK, with J De Lyon, GBP 199k               2020

IGC-India Informality and Labour Market Risk, with S Machin, GBP 20k                                           2020

ONS Research Excellence People’s Choice Award for Trade and Worker Deskilling               2019

ESRC Brexit Priority Grant, GBP 300k                                                                                                   2017

FIW Young Economist Award and Chair Jacquemin Prize for Monopolistic Competition 2012

STICERD Research Grant, GBP 5k                                                                                                                 2012

Citation Count

Google Scholar: All 2539, Since 2017: 2077; h-index 21

Top 4 cited articles

The Costs and Benefits of Leaving the EU: Trade Effects                                                                       391

The Consequences of Brexit for UK Trade and Living Standards                                                         339

Monopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Diversity under Firm Heterogeneity               337

Trading Away Wide Brands for Cheap Brands                                                                                     235
 

Journals

The Comparative Advantage of Firms, with J Boehm and J Morrow, Forthcoming in Journal of Political Economy. CEPR Discussion Paper, 2019.

Expecting Brexit, with T Sampson, Forthcoming in Annual Review of Economics.

Jobs and Covid Recovery in India, with F Kondirolli. Forthcoming in IMF Economic Review.

Urban Labour Market Policy, with F Kondirolli. Forthcoming in Indian Economic Review.

Leveling the Playing Field: Industrial Policy and Export-Contingent Subsidies in India—Export Related Measures, with T Meyer, 2021. World Trade Review, 20(4), 606-20.

Monopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Diversity under Firm Heterogeneity, with J Morrow, 2019. Journal of Political Economy, 127(1), 196-232.

UK Trade and FDI: A post-Brexit perspective, with G Ottaviano, V Rappoport, T Sampson, C Thomas, 2018. Papers in Regional Science, 97(1), 9-24.

The Impact of Trade Agreements on Consumer Welfare — Evidence from the EU Common External Trade Policy, with G Berlingieri, H Breinlich, 2018. Journal of the European Economic Association, 16(6), 1881-1928.

Efficiency in large markets with firm heterogeneity, with J Morrow, 2017. Research in Economics, 71(4), 718-728.

The Costs and Benefits of Leaving the EU: Trade Effects, with H Huang, G Ottaviano, JP Pessoa, T Sampson, J Van Reenen, 2017. Economic Policy, 32(92), 651-705.

A hitch-hiker’s guide to post-Brexit trade negotiations: options and principles, with G Ottaviano, T Sampson, 2017. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 33(S1), S22—S30.

Local Economic Effects of Brexit, with S Machin, H Overman, 2017. National Institute Economic Review, 242(1), R24-R36.

Reconciling Observed Tariffs and the Median Voter Model, 2014. Economics and Politics, 26 (3), 483-504.

Trading Away Wide Brands for Cheap Brands, 2013. American Economic Review, 103(6), 2554-84.

Book Chapters

Firm investments in skills and capital in the UK services sector, with J De Lyon, 2020. OECD Economics Department Working Papers, No. 1632, OECD Publishing, Paris.

Old Ideas Have Value in New Times, 2020. Chapter 15, Covid-19 in Developing Economies, eds. S Djankov and U Panizza, CEPR.

Firm-to-firm connections in Colombian imports, with A Bernard, E Boler, 2018. World Trade Evolution, Growth, Productivity, Employment, eds. L Ing and M Yu, Routledge, New York.

Product Diversification in Indian Manufacturing, with J Boehm, J Morrow, 2018. New Developments in Global Sourcing, eds. W Kohler and E Yalcin, MIT Press, Boston.

Welfare gains in a globalised world: Insights from Ricardo for the 21st century, 2017. In Cloth for Wine? The Relevance of Ricardo’s Comparative Advantage in the 21st Century, ed. Simon Evenett, CEPR.

What next for US-Europe trade policy?, with N Datta, 2017. Chapter 18, Economics and Policy in the Age of Trump, ed. Chad Bown, CEPR. Write-up at VoxEU.

UK-EU Relations After Brexit: What is Best for the UK Economy? with T Sampson, 2006. In Brexit Beckons: Thinking Ahead by Leading Economists, ed. Richard Baldwin, CEPR. Also in LSE Business Review.

Work in Progress

The Impact of Non-Tariff Barriers on Trade and Welfare, with R Freeman and H Huang, 2021. Revision requested at Economica. Write-up at VoxEU.

The Rise of Agribusinesses and its Distributional Consequences, with S Tenreyro, 2021. Submitted. Write-up in Hindustan Times, Outlook. Delayed due to C19-related data access.

The Crisis and Job Guarantees in Urban India, with S Machin, 2021, CEP Discussion Paper. Invited to Ideas for India Symposium on Urban Job Guarantees, CEPR Paris Symposium, Write-up in Fortune India.

Trade and Worker Deskilling, with R Costa and S Machin, 2018. CEP Discussion Paper. Write-up in FT. Delayed due to C19-related data access.

Importers, Exporters and the Division of the Gains from Trade, with A Bernard, 2019. CEPR Discussion Paper.

The Economics of Waste, with S Machin, 2021. Ongoing field intervention with Patna Municipal Corporation 2021-2022, Bihar, India.

Trade in Waste, with N Jia and F Kondirolli, 2021.

Multinational Taxation, with J De Lyon and M Parenti, 2021.

 

Other Publications

Brexit and the Future of Trade, 2019. The Political Quarterly, 90(S2), 21-31. Top cited article. Also in LSE blog post.

No Deal Brexit: What would it be like?, with J De Lyon, 2018. London Review of Books, 40(21), 17-18.

Trade creates losers. Here’s how to help them, 2018. The Economist, May issue.

How not to do trade deals, with N Datta, 2017, London Review of Books, 39(18), 31-32.

Salvaging Brexit: The Right Way to Leave the EU, 2016. Foreign Affairs, Nov-Dec issue.

Brexit Economics, with T Sampson, 2019. CEP Election Analysis 48, November.

The impact of the Brexit Referendum on prices, with J De Lyon and S Machin, 2017. Centrepiece, 24-25.

Life After Brexit: The UK’s options outside the EU, with T Sampson, CEP Brexit Analysis 1, 2016. Also in Policy Review, Eurasia Review, LSE Brexit Blog, LSE Business Review, VoxEU, LSE British Policy Blog, LSE Business Review, Bloomberg, Washington Post, NYT, FT,The Economist, The Telegraph, Chicago Tribune, BBC News, Daily Mail, Boston Globe, CityAM, FT, Guardian, FT, CNBC, Reuters, Guardian.

The Consequences of Brexit for UK Trade and Living Standards, with G Ottaviano, T Sampson and J Van Reenen, CEP Brexit Analysis 2, 2016.

The Impact of Brexit on Foreign Investment in the UK, with G Ottaviano, T Sampson and J Van Reenen, CEP Brexit Analysis 3, 2016.

The UK Treasury Analysis of ‘The Long-term Economic Impact of EU Membership and the Alternatives’, CEP Commentary with T Sampson, G Ottaviano and J Van Reenen, CEP Brexit Analysis 4, 2016.

Brexit and the Impact of Immigration on the UK, with J Wadsworth, G Ottaviano and J Van Reenen, CEP Brexit Analysis 5, 2016.

Economists for Brexit: A Critique with T Sampson, G Ottaviano and J Van Reenen, CEP Brexit Analysis 6, May 2016

Who bears the pain? How the costs of Brexit would be distributed across income groups, with H Breinlich, T Sampson and J Van Reenen, CEP Brexit Analysis 7, 2016.

Review of Bhagwati and Panagariya, 2013. “Reforms and Economic Transformation in India,” in The Journal of Economic Literature, 1203-05.
 

2019: Organiser, CEP Trade Week and European Research Workshop in International Trade, CEPR. In collaboration with British Academy, ESRC, ERC.

2010-2022: Keynotes/Special Invites, CEPR Symposium, CESIfo, Danish Economic Society, GTAP, CEPR Nottingham Conference, Royal Economic Society (Brexit, Special Sessions), Workshop on International Economic Networks WIEN.

2010-2022: AEA (Chicago, Denver, San Diego), Alicante, Aarhus, Arizona State, Berkeley, Bocconi, Bologna, Boston College, Boston, Brandeis, Calgary, CEMFI, CEPR-IO, CEPR-PODER, CEPR-STEG, CEPR-Trade, CESIfo Venice, Columbia, CREI, Dartmouth, DIME-ISGEP, Exeter, FREIT (Hanoi, Tokyo), Harvard, Harvard KSG, Hitotsubashi, IGC Columbia, Indiana Bloomington, IO Workshop Salento, ISB, ISI, JHU SAIS, LSE, Maryland, Mannheim, McMaster, Michigan, Midwest, Munich, NBER Notre Dame, Nottingham, Oslo, Oxford, Penn State, Philadelphia Fed, Princeton, Purdue, RES, Sciences Po, Stanford, Stockholm, Sussex, Syracuse, Toronto, Tuebingen, UBC, UC-Berkeley, UC-Davis, UCLA, UC-San Diego, UEA, Warwick, Wilfrid Laurier, Wisconsin, Yale.

Discussion: Caliendo and Parro, 2021, Handbook of International Trade, Harvard. Grant and Startz, 2021, NBER. Baqaee and Farhi 2020, NBER. Atkin, Faber and Fally 2018, Princeton. Staiger and Sykes 2017, NBER. Colantone and Stanig 2017, Bocconi. Mrazova and Neary 2014, AEA. Frazer 2013, Berkeley IGC. Volpe, Carballo and Cusolito 2013, CEPR Villars. Limao and Maggi 2012, Venice CEP-CAGE. Damijan and Kostevc 2010, FREIT Tokyo.

American Economic Journal, American Economic Review, Canadian Journal of Economics, Econometrica, Economica, Economic Journal, Economics and Politics, European Economic Review, International Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Economic Studies.

ERC, ESRC, German Research Foundation, ILO, OECD, UKRI.

PhD, Ningyuan Jia (LSE), Niclas Moneke (LSE), Marcus Biermann (LSE), Alessandro Ruggieri (UAB), Giuseppe Pulito (Aarhus)

Lecturer, BA (2011-2020), MSc and PhD (2011-), International Trade, LSE

Lecturer, BA Economics of Public Policy, General Course (2021-)

Guest Lecturer, LSE TRIUM (2021-), MPA Policy in Practice (2018-), Widening Participation (2016).

Seminar Organiser, International Economics (10 years)

LSESU Student-Led Teaching Excellence Awards, nominated, 2016.

LSE South Asia Centre, Faculty Advisory Group                                                                                     2020-

Member, Department of Economics Strategy Committee                                                               2017-2019

Member, Department of Economics Junior Recruitment (3 years)                                                 2013-2019

Member, Academic Board, Representing the Department of Economics                                   2013-2014

LSE Interview Panels

LSE-CEP Interview Panels                                                                                                                 2012-

Communities Programme, Globalisation Programme,

Skills Programme, Economy 2030 Programme

LSE-ICEF Interview Panel 2012

Member, Trade Group, International Growth Centre                                                                       2012-

Contributor, Openness Chapter, LSE Growth Commission                                                                       2017

Panel of Judges, LSEE-CEFTA Paper Competition                                                                                     2021
 

LSE International and Policy Outreach                                                                                                   2014-

LSE Mega Virtual Public Event titled The Indian Economy: recent developments and prospects, With RBI Governor S Das, Finance Commissioner NK Singh, Baroness M Shafik, Professor N Stern, Professor A Velasco, M Wolf (Financial Times), October 2021.

LSE-HMT Discussion on the Economy, Seminar at HMT, With Professors T Besley, C Propper, N Stern, B Moll, D Miles.

LSE Private Roundtable, Levelling Up: Local Growth through International Trade, June 2021.

LSE-DIT Framework, Member, 2020-

LSE Continental Virtual Breakfast, April 2020 Trade Negotiation in the Era of Isolation: How will the EU-UK trade talks progress? With D O’Sullivan, EU Ambassador to the US and Professor A Travers.

LSE European Institute and School of Public Policy, Private Seminar, Where are we with Brexit? What next? With Professor S Hix, Professor A Travers, S De Rynck (Senior Advisor to M Barnier), J Owen (Director, Institute of Government), October 2019.

LSE Public Event titled Europe 2020: the European year in review, With Professor S Hagemann, Professor S Hobolt and Professor C Anderson, December 2019.

LSE Election Night, 2019 Panel on Foreign and Trade Policy

LSE Programme on Brexit, January 2018 LSE-LUISS High-Level Private Seminar in Rome

LSE-Finance Ministry of Italy, Panellist, With Professor C Bean and Professor K Featherstone.

LSE Programme on Brexit, Lecturer, 2017-2018 New series of events for LSE students. Co-organised by The European Institute and Institute of Public Affairs. Lecture titled Regional Economic Impacts of Brexit, with Professor H Overman, November 2017.

Civil Service Lecture and Panel titled What Industrial Strategy Can the UK Achieve After Brexit, with Professor B Hancke and Dr S Coulter. January 2018.

LSE-Northern Ireland Department of Economy, Meeting to discuss International Trade Policy, November 2018.

LSE Private Breakfast, Brexit: how we got here and where we are headed, With J Faull (Director-General, European Commission, various), January 2017.

LSE at the Party Conferences Title: Mind the skills gap. A migration trade off? Labour conference in Brighton, September 2017. The Conservative Conference in Manchester, October 2017. LSE Dinner at the Conferences: Deal or No Deal: trading in a post-Brexit world

LSE General Election Media Briefing, April 2017.

LSE and Shadow Brexit Team Seminar, March 2017.

LSE South Asia Centre, Lecture on UK and India trade for Young Parliamentarians, 2016. In collaboration with the British High Commission and the Houses of Parliament, India.

LSE Referendum Night, June 2016.

LSE on Brexit, with J Black, S Hix, W Schelkle, T Travers, 2016

LSE-BIS Partnership on the Impact of Trade Agreements on Consumers, Project Lead and Meeting Participant, 2014

LSE Public Event, Britain’s Future in Europe, with MP K Clarke, M Fraser, M Emerson, 2014

LSE Continental Breakfasts                                                                                                                               2017-

Rupture: The Business Consequences of a Breakdown in the Brexit negotiation, With C Fairbairn (Director-General, CBI) and Professor N Moloney, February 2018.

Britain’s Future Trade Relationships, With S Fraser (Permanent Secretary, Foreign Office, BIS) and Professor S Woolcock, Participant, March 2017.

Britain’s Financial Obligations to the EU, With Professor C Barnard (University of Cambridge) and J Redwood (MP, Wokingham), September 2017.

Should the UK Follow the Swiss Model, With A Fasel (Ambassador of Switzerland to the UK) and Professor S Hix, December 2017.

LSE Public Lecture and Dinner with G Verhofstadt, September 2017

Evidence

Parliamentary International Trade Select Committee, Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales, European Commission: Power from Statistics, Labour/Liberal Democrats/Conservative
 

Adviser

IFS Advisory Group (trade and labour market), OECD (services trade policy, structural transformation and labour market adjustments), HM Treasury (Brexit and Industrial Strategy), IoG (Brexit), CBI (Brexit), Sunderland City Council (Brexit), Tower Hamlets Council (Brexit Commission), BoE (Trade and Productivity), BEIS (Regional development, Trade, Industrial Strategy); BIS (Regional Development, Trade), South Asia Centre LSE, Japan METI.
 

Talks

BoE, BEIS, Chatham House, DexEU, DfID, DIT, FCO/FCDO, HMT, ONS, Society for Professional Economists, TUC, Trade Talks, UKTPO.

Expert Panel

UK in a Changing Europe, Financial Times, The Times and LSE CfM Christmas Surveys, The Guardian Small Business Network.
 

Panellist

Ministerial trade policy seminar, Department of International Trade, with Minister L Fox

EU debate, Bruton, with MP J Rees-Mogg, M Weale, M Thomas, J Coomarasamy

EU debate, Tisbury, with M Thomas, Maj-Gen. S Roberts, E Craigie, T Young

After article 50, what next?, with V Cable, N Hertz, A Lilico

Trade Knowledge Exchange: the UK and the EU in an uncertain global system, with P Lamy,

G O’Donnell, A Winters

OECD and European Commission Global Forum on Productivity, High-level Policy Panel

G20/IMF/WB Annual Meetings Bali, with K Ash (OECD), R Koopman (WTO), M Pangetsu, M Wolf

European Trade Policy Day, European Commission

UN Association Barnet & Enfield public discussion

Festival Economia Trento, with J Hooper, J Lloyd, S Fabbrini, S Miscossi

Bristol Festival of Ideas, with J Chadha, M Cini, L Yueh, D Coyle

Plenary Session of the Royal Economics Society, with R Baldwin, J Van Reenen, E Spoloare

QMUL Economic Policy Seminar; EU Get Facts, with P Wintour, Lord McNally, J Grant

EU panel, UCL, with A Menon, S Usherwood, A Renwick, M Rusell

EU referendum one year on, UKICE, with J Curtice, A Menon, J Hunt, J Portes

CEPR Roundtable on Brexit, with I Rogers, K Whelan, L Frieden
 

Chatham House; UK Chamber of Shipping; ESRC-BA UK in a Changing Europe; Small Business School, Sage SmallBiz, Social Enterprise UK, Waterloo Business Investment District, Credit Suisse, Strategic Risk, Halkin Services, Post-Crash Economics Society, Danish Lawyers and Economists, Greycoat Hospital School, St Olave’s Grammar School.
 

Media

Print, Interview with Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, WSJ, Bloomberg, The Economist, Hindustan Times, Politico, The Observer (Guardian), The Guardian Small Business Network.

Radio, BBC Newshour, BBC 5 Live, BBC 4 More or Less, BBC Sheffield, BBC World Service, NPR, Rai Radio 3, ABC, The Anthill, LBC.

TV, BBC Newsnight, PBS Newshour, Crosstalk, CNC, Paul Henry show, Al Jazeera, ABC, Zee Business.
 

Articles: Indian Economy

How has Covid-19 Affected India’s Economy?, with M Ghatak, Economics Observatory, June 2021. Top 5 viewed articles for 2021.

City of Dreams No More, A Year On: Worklessness and Active Labour Market Policies in Urban India, with F Kondirolli, CEP Covid-19 Analysis, July 2021. Also in IGC Policy Brief, Economic Times, The Hindu.

City of dreams no more: The impact of Covid-19 on urban workers in India, with S Bhalotia, F Kondirolli, CEP Covid-19 Analysis, September 2020. Also in The Guardian, NDTV, Bloomberg, Bloomberg Quint, Hindustan Times.

EU-India FTA, Business Standard, Also in LSE blog, IGC blog, 2016.
 

Articles: UK Economy

Trading Places, with J De Lyon, S Hale and J Smith, 2021. Write-up in Sunday Times, Express.

The 2020s will be a crunch decade that will determine the UK’s trajectory into the mid-21st century, with T Bell, S Machin, C McCurdy, H Overman, G Thwaites, D Tomlinson, A Valero, 2021. Write-up in Economist, FT, Times.

Book review, Vince Cable’s After the Storm, LSE Review of Books, Nov 2015.

Real-time updates on the UK economy: trends, expectations and implications from business survey data, with J De Lyon, 2020, CEP Covid-19 analysis.

Business Preparation for Brexit, How is Covid-19 affecting businesses in the UK?,

Covid-19 and Brexit: Contrasting sectoral impacts on the UK. Also in The Guardian.

Cost of No Deal: UK Trade, The Brexit White Paper: What it must address - Trade, regulation and NTBs, in UKICE Reports, 2018.

EU referendum - one year on and The manifestos uncovered: trade, 2017.

Theresa May’s Brexit speech leaves small firms in the dark, The Guardian, Jan 2017.

How would Brexit change VAT and import duties?, in The Guardian, 22 March 2016.

How would Brexit affect finance for SMEs?, in The Guardian, 5 April 2016.

Brexit Campaigns Ignore 40 Years of Economic Data, Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC), Feb 9, 2016. Re-published on LSE Blogs, Feb 2016.

Those Who Champion Brexit Should Rewind 40 years, Op-Ed, MNI, 2016.

Should We Stay or Go? Government Gazette, April 2015;

Review, Government’s Brexit leaflet, The Conversation, 2016.

June 2022