Swati is Associate Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, and an Associate of the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE. Before joining LSE, Swati completed a PhD in Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a Fellow at the Department of Economics in Princeton University. Her research interests are international economics, globalisation and industrial policy. Her work has been published in top economic journals including The American Economic Review and The Journal of Political Economy.
Swati is a Director of The Royal Economic Society, The Review of Economic Studies and The Royal Mint Museum, and is a member of the Steering Group for the UK’s Economy 2030 Inquiry. She is an External Member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England, and has previously been on the UK’s Trade Modelling Review Expert Panel and the LSE’s Economic Diplomacy Commission. Swati ‘s research has been supported by the ESRC, ERC, IGC, UKRI and was awarded the ONS‘s Research Excellence People’s Choice Award 2019.
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Accounting for imported and domestically generated inflation: Supply chains, monetary policy, and the UK’s cost of living crisis
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- Europe's nations and regions 
- Inflation
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The trade and welfare benefits of deep trade agreements
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- International trade
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Covid-19 and Brexit: Contrasting sectoral impacts on the UK
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- COVID-19 
- Europe's nations and regions 
- International trade
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Protecting informal workers in urban India: The need for a universal job guarantee
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- COVID-19 
- Labour Markets 
- Politics and economics 
- Poverty and Income Inequality
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The impacts of agribusiness-led development on farming incomes and profits
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- Development 
- Poverty and Income Inequality