Assistant Professor, International Economics
Home | Courses | Research Contact Information: The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Johns Hopkins University
1740 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington D.C., 20036 Bernstein-Offit 708
gsethupathy(at)jhu.edu
202.663.5807 Click here to download CV as a PDF. Education | 2004-09 | Ph.D., Economics, Columbia University
Fields: International Trade, Industrial Organization, Development
Thesis: Firm Level Investigations of International Trade
Committee: D.Davis, E. Verhoogen, K. Bagwell, D. Weinstein, A. Khandelwal | | 1996-01 | BS, Computer Science, Stanford University |
Fellowships | 2008-09 | Dissertation Fellowship, Columbia University | | 2008 | Dissertation Fellowship, Federal Reserve Board – Washington, DC | | 2005-08 | National Science Foundation, IGERT-IDG Fellowship, Columbia University | | 2004-08 | Columbia University Fellowship |
Honors and Awards
| 2007-08 | Wueller Teaching Award – Intermediate Micro, Columbia University | | 2006-07 | Vickrey Prize Winner, Best 3rd Year Paper – “Does Exporting Lead to Spillovers…”, Columbia | | 2006-07 | Vickrey Prize Runner-Up, Best 3rd Year Proposal, Columbia University |
Research: Working Papers and Publications - Job Market Paper: “Offshoring, Wages, and Employment: Theory and Evidence”
Abstract:This paper combines theory and empirics to investigate the wage and employment effects of offshoring. The theoretical framework combines heterogeneous firms with wage bargaining, in which firms endogenously select into offshoring. Following a new offshoring opportunity, offshoring firms increase their productivity and profitability at the expense of non-offshoring firms. This channel leads to higher domestic wages at offshoring firms and lower domestic wages at non-offshoring firms. Further, the predicted effect on domestic employment is ambiguous at the former but negative at the latter. Using two events in Mexico as exogenous shocks to the marginal cost of offshoring to Mexico, I test these implications with firm-level data on US multinationals. The empirical findings support the prediction on wages and find no evidence of greater job loss at offshoring firms relative to non-offshoring firms.
- Columbia University Department of Economics Discussion Paper Series No. 0708-01: “Does Exporting Lead to Spillovers in Horizontal or Vertical Industries? Evidence from Indonesia”
- “Openness and Exports: What Policies Complement Trade Reforms in Growing Exports?”
- “Power Balance and Congressional Apportionment Algorithms” (The ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithms, Vol.3, 1998) - http://www.jea.acm.org/1998/HemaspaandraPower
Teaching Experiences
| Fall 2009 | Intermediate Microeconomics - Johns Hopkins, SAIS |
Invited Seminar and Conference Presentations
| 2009 | Georgetown University - Washington, DC
University of Virginia - Charlottesville, VA
Venice Summer Inst., Workshop on Heterogeneous Firms and Int'l Trade - Venice, Italy Advanced Graduate Student Workshop on Globalization - Manchester, UK
University of Essex - Colcester, UK
Johns Hopkins University, SAIS - Washington, DC
University of California, Davis - Davis, CA
University of British Columbia - Vancouver, Canada
University of Toronto - Toronto, Canada
Federal Reserve Board - Washington, DC | | 2008 | World Bank, DECRG-Trade - Washington, DC
Bureau of Economic Analysis - Washington, DC |
Professional Experiences
| 2006-07 | Consultant, World Bank – Washington, DC | | 2001-03 | Financial Analyst, JPMorgan Chase H&Q/Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein – San Francisco, CA | | 1999-00 | Entrepreneur/Founder, Woosh, Inc. – Silicon Valley, CA |
Personal | Citizenship | United States | | Languages | Tamil (fluent), French (intermediate) | | DOB | August 31, 1978 |
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