Associate Professor of Economics, The University of Texas
Nitya Pandalai-Nayar is an Associate Professor of Economics at The University of Texas at Austin and co-Director of the Empirical Macroeconomics Policy Center of Texas (EMPCT). She received a BA in Economics and Mathematics from Wellesley College (2007), an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics (2008) and a PhD from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (2016) followed by the IES post-doc at Princeton (2017). She works on topics in international trade and macroeconomics, including the formation of global supply chains and their impact on global synchronization, the transmission of shocks across countries, the adaptation of economies to climate risk, and the employment impacts of trade. Her research has been published in journals such as the American Economic Review and Review of Economic Studies. Nitya is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and an associate editor of the Journal of International Economics and the IMF Economic Review.
