Priyam Verma
About Me: I am a trade economist. I did my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Houston. Here is the link to my CV. My interests span international, spatial, and macro-economics. In my research, I study spatial outcomes and optimal regional policies through the lens of quantitative trade models. I focus on highlighting synergies between investments and trade policies to optimize regional gains from trade. I co-organize a spatial trade reading group at AMSE. I can be reached at priyam.verma@univ-amu.fr
I will join the Economics Department at Ashoka University as an Assistant Professor in August 2024.
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Aix-Marseille School of Economics
253 MEGA
424 Chemin du Viaduc
Aix-en-Provence, 13100, France
Publications
Optimal Infrastructure after Trade Reform in India, Journal of Development Economics, Volume 166, (January 2024), 103208.
Working Papers
The Size Distribution of Cities: Evidence from a 9th Century Lab, with Rocco Rante and Federico Trionfetti - AMSE Working Paper.
Expenditure Smoothing under Balanced Budget Rules, with Xavier Martin Bautista, Steven Craig, Annie Hsu, Bent Sørensen, and Vasundhara Tanwar.
Work in Progress
China Shock through Market Access, with Ernesto Ugolini.
AI-Innovation and Trade: Evidence from India, with Despoina Balouktsi and Laura Contreras.
Why is India's Manufacturing Value-added flat?, with Kriti Khanna and Xavier Martin Bautista.
Reports
A comment on Xu (2022). Reshaping Global Trade: The Immediate and Long-Term Effects of Bank Failures with Guillaume Bérard and Dimitria Freitas - No 85, I4R Discussion Paper Series.
Non-Economics Publications
Determining Sample Size and Power in Research Studies: A Manual for Researchers, with J. P. Verma, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020. Online ISBN: 978-981-15-5204-5.