Dr. Sonali Chowdhry

Dr. Sonali Chowdhry

Research Associate of the

Firms and Markets Department

Research Topics and Working Areas

Dr. Sonali Chowdhry is Research Associate in the Department Firms and Markets. She is an economist specialising in international trade and firm heterogeneity. Her research examines the reallocation effects of trade policy shocks using detailed firm-level customs databases. Alongside academic research, Sonali has contributed to numerous policy studies on mega-regional trade agreements and served as an external consultant for institutions such as the European Parliament, the German Federal Ministry of Economics and the Embassy of India in Brussels. Her research on the US-China tariff war, sanctions policy and the COVID-19 trade collapse has received coverage in leading news outlets including Bloomberg, Reuters, Der Spiegel and Die Zeit. Sonali pursued her PhD in Economics as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. Prior to her PhD, she read for the MPhil in Economics from University of Oxford as a recipient of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship from India.

Publications

Economic Policy

Brothers in Arms: The Value of Coalitions in Sanctions Regimes

Forthcoming | Sonali Chowdhry, Julian Hinz, Katrin Kamin, Joschka Wanner
European Parliament

An Analysis of the Implementation of the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) - In-depth analysis

2023 | Julian Hinz, Carsten Philipp Brockhaus, Sonali Chowdhry, Hendrik Mahlkow, Vasundhara Thakur
European Parliament - Committee on International Trade (INTA)

Après-ski: The spread of coronavirus from Ischgl through Germany

2021 | Gabriel Felbermayr, Julian Hinz, Sonali Chowdhry
European Parliament - Committee on International Trade (INTA)

EU-India trade relations: Assessment and perspectives

2021 | Niclas Poitiers, Suman Bery, Sonali Chowdhry, Alicia García-Herrero
European Parliament - Committee on International Trade (INTA)

Study on the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement

2018 | André Sapir, Sonali Chowdhry, Alessio Terzi
Non-refereed Articles

Trumps Zölle: chaotische Entkopplung

In: Wirtschaftsdienst 105 (2025), 4, S. 218–219 | Sonali Chowdhry, Julian Hinz, Hendrik Mahlkow
Refereed essays Web of Science

Brothers in Arms: The Value of Coalitions in Sanctions Regimes

In: Economic Policy 39 (2024), 118, S. 471–512 | Sonali Chowdhry, Julian Hinz, Katrin Kamin, Joschka Wanner
Newspaper and Blog Articles

Growing Together: Policy Considerations for the African Continental Free Trade Area

In: EUIdeas (27.03.2023), [Online-Artikel] | Sonali Chowdhry, Martina F. Ferracane and Rohit Ticku
Externe Monographien

An Analysis of the Implementation of the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA): In-Depth Analysis

Bruxelles: European Parliament, 2023, 27 S. | Julian Hinz, Carsten Philipp Brockhaus, Sonali Chowdhry, Hendrik Mahlkow, Vasundhara Thakur
Refereed essays Web of Science

Trade Liberalization along the Firm Size Distribution: The Case of the EU-South Korea FTA

In: Review of International Economics 31 (2023), 5, S. 1751-1792 | Sonali Chowdhry, Gabriel Felbermayr

Lectures

Vortrag

Fostering Rules-based Global Trade

Sonali Chowdhry
Berlin, 28.11.2024 - 29.11.2024
| Pariser Platz Dialogue: Jacques Delors Centre, Hertie School
Vortrag

Renminbi Rising? Exporters’ Response to China’s Currency Internationalization

Sonali Chowdhry
Bern, Schweiz, 10.10.2024
| WTI Brown Bag Seminar
Vortrag

Broken Ties: Impact of Venezuela’s Suspension from Mercosur on Trade Networks

Sonali Chowdhry, Julian Hinz, Filippo Santi
Berlin, 02.10.2024
| Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics
Vortrag

Broken Ties: Impact of Venezuela’s Suspension from Mercosur on Trade Networks

Sonali Chowdhry, Julian Hinz, Filippo Santi
Athen, Griechenland, 12.09.2024 - 14.09.2024
| 25th Annual Conference of the European Trade Study Group: ETSG 2024
Vortrag

Renminbi Rising? Exporters’ Response to China’s Currency Internationalization

Sonali Chowdhry
Kiel, 07.06.2024
| Economic Policies amid Increasing Geopolitical Fragmentation: 20th EUROFRAME Conference on Economic Policy Issues in the European Union
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