Biography

Dr Marta Santamaria is an Associate professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. She received her PhD in Economics from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona in 2019. Her work is at the intersection of International trade, development and spatial economics. She is interested in how different barriers to trade shape the distribution of economic activity. She has studied the reallocation of infrastructure investments in West Germany, the effects of borders for trade and procurement markets in Europe, and the importance of contractual frictions in India. She is an associate at the CAGE research centre (University of Warwick) and a research affiliate at CEPR.

Current areas of research include:

• International trade: Border effects in trade, domestic trade frictions, home bias in public procurement.
• Urban Economics: Transport infrastructure and economic activity.
• Trade and Development: Firm-to-firm networks
• Economic History: Barriers to spatial and occupational mobility.