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, and identifying the origins of spatial heterogeneity. 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
China Shock through Market Access, with Ernesto Ugolini.
Abstract: We study how locations absorb international trade shocks based on their market access. Our new measure of market access is more granular and allows for spatial linkages through both domestic trade links and the input-output structure of production. Using the infrastructure network maps, we estimate the market access of US commuting zones across 22 sectors before and after China's entry into WTO to study the general equilibrium effects of the China `shock'. To solve endogeneity issues, we instrument the change in market access using changes in the market access of connected labor markets. We find that after the China shock, US commuting zones with better domestic market access witnessed employment gains through Input-Output linkages which more than compensated the employment losses through increased competition.
The Size Distribution of Cities: Evidence from a 9th Century Lab, with Rocco Rante and Federico Trionfetti
Expenditure Smoothing under Balanced Budget Rules, with Xavier Martin Bautista, Steven Craig, Annie Hsu, Bent Sørensen, and Vasundhara Tanwar.
Work in Progress
Why is India's Manufacturing Value-added flat?, with Kriti Khanna and Xavier Martin Bautista.
AI-Innovation and Trade: Evidence from India, with Despoina Balouktsi.
Importing Goods or Technology: Different Paths to Structural Transformation, with 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.