The Direction of Product Adoption

How firms grow through product adoption is a promising research topic. Using detailed data on inputs and outputs for firms, Swati Dhingra shows that firms have input capabilities which they exploit in product adoption. The ongoing work on the project will look at how these linkages create room for economic policy to shape the production structure of the economy. The project intersects with work by CESifo members on multiproduct firms, growth and firm heterogeneity. At CESifo, Ms Swati will continue her collaboration on this project for a publication together with her co-authors Johannes Boehm (Sciences Po) and John Morrow (Essex and CEP).

Swati Dhingra's research interests are international economics, globalisation and industrial policy. Her research examines how the decisions of different actors in international trade – firms, policymakers, workers, traders and consumers – influence the gains and losses from globalisation. The work goes beyond stylised patterns and positive questions to examine how new facts of the global economy matter for the division of the gains from globalisation and for the normative aspects of trade and industrial policy.

Ms Dhingra's work has been published in top economic journals including The American Economic Review. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of International Economics, and was awarded the FIW Young Economist Award and the Chair Jacquemin Award by the European Trade Study Group for her work on firms and globalisation. Swati Dhingra is a member of the Globalization Group at LSE's Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), and has made regular contributions to the public debate on Brexit, such as "Stay or Go? The Economic Consequences of Brexit".

Swati Dhingra is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at LSE. Before joining LSE, she completed a PhD in Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a fellow at the Department of Economics in Princeton University.