Staff Biography

Biography:

Current Areas of Research:

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:

• CEPR - Member
• Royal Economic Society - Programme Committee, 2013-2016
• International Growth Commission - Trade Group Member

Selected Publications:

• Trading Away Wide Brands for Cheap Brands, 2013. The American Economic Review, 103(6), 2554-84.
  
  
• Reconciling Observed Tariffs and the Median Voter Model
  
  
• Review of Bhagwati, Jagdish and Arvind Panagariya, 2012, “Reforms and Economic Transformation in India”. The Journal of Economic Literature, 1203-05, December 2013.
  
  

CEP Publications:

• Why immigration is no reason to leave the EU
  Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano, John Van Reenen, Jonathan Wadsworth, June 2016
  Paper No' CEPCP471: Read Abstract | Full paper
  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: Read Abstract | Full paper
  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: Read Abstract | Full paper
  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: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• 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: Full paper
  
  
• ‘ECONOMISTS FOR BREXIT’: A critique
  Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Thomas Sampson, John Van Reenen, May 2016
  Paper No' CEPBREXIT06: Full paper
  
  
• Brexit and the Impact of Immigration on the UK
  Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano, John Van Reenen, Jonathan Wadsworth, May 2016
  Paper No' CEPBREXIT05: Read Abstract | Paper 1 | Paper 2
  
  
• 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: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• The impact of Brexit on foreign investment in the UK
  Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Thomas Sampson, John Van Reenen, April 2016
  Paper No' CEPBREXIT03: Read Abstract | Paper 1 | Paper 2
  
  
• How have EU's Trade Agreements Impacted Consumers?
  Holger Breinlich, Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano, March 2016
  Paper No' CEPDP1417: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• The consequences of Brexit for UK trade and living standards
  Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Thomas Sampson, John Van Reenen, March 2016
  Paper No' CEPBREXIT02: Read Abstract | Paper 1 | Paper 2
  
  
• Swimming Upstream: Input-output Linkages and the Direction of Product Adoption
  Johannes Boehm, Swati Dhingra, John Morrow, February 2016
  Paper No' CEPDP1407: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Life after Brexit : What are the UK’s options outside the European Union?
  Swati Dhingra, Thomas Sampson, February 2016
  Paper No' CEPBREXIT01: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Contracting and the Division of the Gains from Trade
  Andrew B. Bernard, Swati Dhingra, October 2015
  Paper No' CEPDP1381: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• #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: Read Abstract | Paper 1 | Paper 2
  
  
• 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: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Reconciling Observed Tariffs and the Median Voter Model
  Swati Dhingra, July 2014
  Paper No' CEPDP1285: Read Abstract | Full paper
  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: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Trading Away Wide Brands for Cheap Brands
  Swati Dhingra, December 2011
  Paper No' CEPDP1103: Read Abstract | Full paper