Natalie Chen is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick and holds a PhD in Economics from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. After completing her PhD she spent 2 years as a Research Fellow at London Business School in the Economics Subject Area, and is a CEPR Research Fellow. Natalie is mainly interested in applied issues related to international economics, covering both international trade and international macroeconomics, and is also interested in European Union market integration.