Kumuthini Sivathas

Kumuthini Sivathas

Higher Degree by Research Candidate

School of Economics and Public Policy

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics

Kumuthini Sivathas is a doctoral student at the School of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Adelaide. She is a recipient of a Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship. Her doctoral research lies at the intersection of international trade, development, and demography, with a focus on the welfare consequences of trade liberalization.
Kumuthini has worked on assignments for the Institute for International Trade at the University of Adelaide on trade-related technical assistance and capacity building by Australia to its developing country free trade agreement partners. Soon before commencing the doctoral program, she worked at Verité Research, an independent think tank based in Colombo, on national budget monitoring, political economy evaluation of the agricultural sector, and public polling on corruption prevention projects across Sri Lanka.
She holds a Masters in Economics and Public Policy (MEconPP) from the School of Economics at the University of Queensland, Australia, and a Master of Science degree in Financial Mathematics from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.

My research lies at the intersection of international trade, development, and demography, with a focus on the welfare consequences of trade liberalization. I'm currently working on projects that examine the effects of heterogeneous population, and productivity growth across countries on international trade and welfare. I’m interested in answering policy-relevant questions such as: what are the effects of preferential trade agreements and deep trade agreements? What are the effects of trade facilitation agreements? And what are the effects of trade-related technical assistance and capacity building on developing countries?

I’m using both econometric methods and quantitative trade models to analyze the effect of trade policies on trade and welfare in developed and developing countries.

Tutor cum Teaching Assistant, The University of Adelaide

2023: ECON 7072 - International Trade PG (Postgraduate Course)

2023: ECON 3506 - International Trade III (Undergraduate Course)

 

Tutor cum Teaching Assistant, The University of Queensland

2018: ECON 7300 - Statistics for Business & Economics (Postgraduate Course)

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