Kumuthini Sivathas
School of Economics and Public Policy
Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics
Kumuthini Sivathas is a PhD 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, focusing on the welfare consequences of trade liberalization.
As a trained trade economist, Kumuthini briefly held the position of Research Fellow at the World Trade Organization in Geneva, where she was attached to the Trade Policy Review Division and worked on deep trade agreements and regional trade agreements such as RCEP and CPTPP. She 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 PhD 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.
Kumuthini 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.
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Appointments
Date Position Institution name 2023 - 2023 Tutor cum Teaching Assistant University of Adelaide 2022 - 2023 Research Assistant University of Adelaide 2017 - 2018 Tutor cum Teaching Assistant University of Queensland -
Language Competencies
Language Competency English Can peer review Sinhala; Sinhalese Can speak and understand spoken Tamil Can peer review -
Education
Date Institution name Country Title 2017 - 2018 University of Queensland Australia Master in Economics and Public Policy 2014 - 2016 University of Moratuwa Sri Lanka Master of Science in Financial Mathematics -
Research Interests
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Journals
Year Citation 2024 Sivathas, K. (2024). International Trade Amid Demographic Changes: A Review. under revision and resubmission. -
Working Paper
Year Citation 2024 Heid, B., & Sivathas, K. (2024). Market size and the evaluation of future trade agreements: The role of population and TFP growth. 2024 Heid, B., & Sivathas, K. (2024). Market size and the evaluation of future trade agreements: The role of population and TFP growth.
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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