Expertise: International Trade, Industrial Development, Trade Policy
Biography:Swati Dhingra is a Lecturer at the Department of Economics at LSE. Before joining LSE, she completed a PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a fellow at Princeton University. Her research interests are international economics, globalization and industrial policy.
Current Areas of Research:
The impact of trade agreements
Firms in international trade
Industrial development in India
Education:
- PhD in Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- MS Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- MA Economics, Delhi School of Economics
- BA (Hons) Economics, Delhi University
Awards:
- FIW Young Economist Award and ETSG Chair Jacquemin Prize, with John Morrow for “Monopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Diversity under Firm Heterogeneity”, 2012.
Affiliations/Professional activities with other institutions:
Selected Publications:
CEP Publications:
- UK Trade and FDI: A Post-Brexit Perspective
Swati Dhingra,
Gianmarco Ottaviano,
Veronica Rappoport,
Thomas Sampson,
Catherine Thomas,
June 2017
Paper No' CEPDP1487:
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- Brexit and the UK Economy
Swati Dhingra,
Thomas Sampson,
May 2017
Paper No' CEPEA040:
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- The Costs and Benefits of Leaving the EU: Trade Effects
Swati Dhingra,
Hanwei Huang,
Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano,
Joao Paulo Pessoa,
Thomas Sampson,
John Van Reenen,
April 2017
Paper No' CEPDP1478:
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- Why immigration is no reason to leave the EU
Swati Dhingra,
Gianmarco Ottaviano,
John Van Reenen,
Jonathan Wadsworth,
June 2016
Paper No' CEPCP471:
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This article summarises ‘Brexit and the Impact of Immigration on the UK’, CEP Brexit Analysis No. 5 by Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano, John Van Reenen and Jonathan Wadsworth, May 2016.
- Foreign investors love Britain - but Brexit would end the affair
Swati Dhingra,
Gianmarco Ottaviano,
Thomas Sampson,
John Van Reenen,
June 2016
Paper No' CEPCP470:
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This article summarises ‘The Impact of Brexit on Foreign Investment in the UK’, CEP Brexit Analysis No. 3 by Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Thomas Sampson and John Van Reenen, April 2016.
- Brexit: the impact on UK trade and living standards
Swati Dhingra,
Gianmarco Ottaviano,
Thomas Sampson,
John Van Reenen,
June 2016
Paper No' CEPCP469:
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This article summarises ‘The Consequences of Brexit for UK Trade and Living Standards’, CEP Brexit Analysis No. 2 by Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Thomas Sampson and John Van Reenen, March 2016.
- BREXIT 2016: Policy Analysis from the Centre for Economic Performance
Holger Breinlich,
Swati Dhingra,
Saul Estrin,
Hanwei Huang,
Gianmarco Ottaviano,
Thomas Sampson,
John Van Reenen,
Jonathan Wadsworth,
June 2016
Paper No' CEPBREXIT08:
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- Who Bears the Pain? How the costs of Brexit would be distributed across income groups
Holger Breinlich,
Swati Dhingra,
Thomas Sampson,
John Van Reenen,
June 2016
Paper No' CEPBREXIT07:
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- ‘ECONOMISTS FOR BREXIT’: A critique
Swati Dhingra,
Gianmarco Ottaviano,
Thomas Sampson,
John Van Reenen,
May 2016
Paper No' CEPBREXIT06:
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- Brexit and the Impact of Immigration on the UK
Swati Dhingra,
Gianmarco Ottaviano,
John Van Reenen,
Jonathan Wadsworth,
May 2016
Paper No' CEPBREXIT05:
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- The UK Treasury analysis of 'The long-term economic impact of EU membership and the alternatives': CEP Commentary
Swati Dhingra,
Gianmarco Ottaviano,
Thomas Sampson,
John Van Reenen,
April 2016
Paper No' CEPBREXIT04:
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- The impact of Brexit on foreign investment in the UK
Swati Dhingra,
Gianmarco Ottaviano,
Thomas Sampson,
John Van Reenen,
April 2016
Paper No' CEPBREXIT03:
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- How have EU's Trade Agreements Impacted Consumers?
Holger Breinlich,
Swati Dhingra,
Gianmarco Ottaviano,
March 2016
Paper No' CEPDP1417:
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- The consequences of Brexit for
UK trade and living standards
Swati Dhingra,
Gianmarco Ottaviano,
Thomas Sampson,
John Van Reenen,
March 2016
Paper No' CEPBREXIT02:
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- Swimming Upstream: Input-output Linkages and the Direction of Product Adoption
Johannes Boehm,
Swati Dhingra,
John Morrow,
February 2016
Paper No' CEPDP1407:
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- Life after Brexit : What are the UK’s options outside the European Union?
Swati Dhingra,
Thomas Sampson,
February 2016
Paper No' CEPBREXIT01:
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- Contracting and the Division of the Gains from Trade
Andrew B. Bernard,
Swati Dhingra,
October 2015
Paper No' CEPDP1381:
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- #ElectionEconomics: The Research Evidence on Key Issues for Voters in the 2015 UK General Election
Ghazala Azmat,
Brian Bell,
Jonathan Colmer,
Antoine Dechezleprêtre,
Swati Dhingra,
Christian Hilber,
Stephen Machin,
Alan Manning,
Ralf Martin,
Alistair McGuire,
Sandra McNally,
Gianmarco Ottaviano,
Henry Overman,
Isabelle Roland,
Thomas Sampson,
Anna Valero,
John Van Reenen,
Jonathan Wadsworth,
Gill Wyness,
Gabriel Zucman,
April 2015
Paper No' CEPEA034:
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- Should We Stay or Should We Go? The economic consequences of leaving the EU
Swati Dhingra,
Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano,
Thomas Sampson,
March 2015
Paper No' CEPEA022:
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- Reconciling Observed Tariffs and the Median Voter Model
Swati Dhingra,
July 2014
Paper No' CEPDP1285:
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This paper has been published as:
Reconciling observed tariffs and the median voter model, Swati Dhingra, Economics & Politics, Volume 26, Issue3, November 2014
- The Impact of Integration on Productivity and Welfare Distortions Under Monopolistic Competition
Swati Dhingra,
John Morrow,
February 2012
Paper No' CEPDP1130:
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- Trading Away Wide Brands for Cheap Brands
Swati Dhingra,
December 2011
Paper No' CEPDP1103:
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