Marta Santamaria is an Assistant 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.

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Latest contributions 

Factory in Kolkata
VoxEU Column

Community networks and trade: Evidence from India

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  • Development
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  • Productivity and Innovation