I am professor of economics (with a chair in economic theory) with the Johannes Kepler Universität Linz.  I am also a fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London) and the Tinbergen Institute (Amsterdam/Rotterdam), director of the European Trade Study Group and the Institute for International and Development Economics, and a board member of the Global Trade Analysis Project. I serve on the editorial board of the German Economic Review, the Review of Development Economics, and the World Trade Review. I am also a member of the policy advisory group TradePartnership. Past professional incarnations have included professor of economics at Eramsus University Rotterdam, research economist for the World Trade Organization, and chief of research and acting director of economics for the U.S. International Trade Commission. I studied economics at the University of Maryland and the University of Virginia.

My current research interests include: trade in services; open economy competition policy and the regulation of firm behaviour; financial market integration; open economy growth and development; economic integration (like EU enlargement and American hemisphere integration schemes); the multilateral trading system (including China’s accession); trade and investment policy under imperfect competition (including the location of industry); uncertainty in computable general equilibrium; the labor market impact of globalization; the role of the service sector (finance, margin and intermediate services, etc.) in trade and development; competition in the service sectors; computational partial and general equilibrium modeling; income distribution in general equilibrium models of trade and competition; and estimation and inference within nonlinear systems (like large scale, multi-sector general equilibrium econometric models).

working papers & publications

You can find links to most of the papers listed below (published and unpublished) on the right. REPEC has the most complete collection of links. If you are looking for a book chapter of something of the sort, let me know and I will try to post it.

Recent discussion/working papers:

Market Structure and Market Access,
Francois, J.  and I. Wooton.

Institutions, Infrastructure, and Trade,
Francois J and M. Manchin.

Equity and Trade Policy,
J. Francois and H. Rojas-Romagosa

Financial Integration & Growth with Imperfect Competition in Banking,
Francois J. and F. Eschenbach.

Non-linear panel estimation of quantitative restrictions in trade,
Francois J. and Julia Woerz.

Globalization, Roundaboutness, and Relative Wages,
Francois, J., K. Grier and D. Nelson.

Trade Policy and the Household Distribution of Income,
J. Francois and H. Rojas-Romagosa.

The Construction and Interpretation of Combined Cross-Section and Time-Series Inequality Datasets,
Francois, J. and H. Rojas-Romagosa.

Political Influence in a New Antidumping Regime: Evidence from Mexico,
Francois, J. and G. Niels.

Endogenous Protection in General Equilibrium: estimating political weights in the EU,
Francois, J., D. Nelson and A, Balaoing.

Rags in the High Rent District: The Evolution of Quota Rents in Textiles and Clothing,
Francois, J. and J. Woerz.

Published & forthcoming articles/papers

Antitrust in Open Economics,
Francois J. and H. Horn, in the The Political Economy of Antitrust edited by Vivek Ghosal and Johan Stennek, Elsevier-North Holland, 2007.

Preference Erosion and Multilateral Trade Liberalization,
Francois, J. B. Hoemkan and M. Manchin, World Bank Economic Review, 2006.

Macroeconomic Determinants of Antidumping in Mexico,
Niels, G. and J.F. Francois, Review of Development Economics, 2006.

Preferential Trade Agreements, Differentiated Intermediates, and Trade Patterns,
in O. Cadot et al, eds, Economics of Regional Trade Agreements, Oxford University Press, 2006.

EU Developing Country FTAs: Overview and Analysis,
J. Francois, M. McQueen, and G. Wignaraja, World Development 2005.

Trade Liberalization in the Doha Development Round,
Francois, J.F., H. van Meijl and F. van Tongeren, Economic Policy 2005.

Assessing the Impact of Trade Policy on Labor Markets and Production,
Francois, J.F., Économie International.

Commercial Policy Variability, Bindings, and Market Access,
Francois, J.F. and W. Martin, European Economic Review.

Regulated Efficiency and the Impact of China”s WTO Accession on the Auto Sector,
Francois, J.F. and D. Spinanger, World Bank Economic Review.

Formula Approaches for Market Access Negotiations,
Francois, J.F. and W. Martin, World Economy.

A Geometry of Specialization,
Francois, J.F. and D. Nelson, Economic Journal.

The Cost of Rich (and Poor) Country Protection to Developing Countries,
Anderson, K., B. Dimaranan, J.F. Francois, T. Hertel, B. Hoekman, and W. Martin J.F. , Journal of African Economies.

Market Structure, Trade Liberalization, and the GATS,
Francois, J.F. and I. Wooton, European Journal of Political Economy.

Trade in International Transport Services: The Role of Competition,
Francois, J.F. and I. Wooton, Review of International Economics.

Trade Policy Transparency and Investor Confidence -- the Implications of an Effective Trade Policy Review Mechanism,
Francois, J.F., Review of International Economics.

Trade, Technology, and Wages:  General Equilibrium Mechanics,
Francois, J.F. and D. Nelson, Economic Journal.

Costs and Benefits of EU Enlargement to the East,
Baldwin, R.E., J.F. Francois, and R.E. Portes, Economic Policy.

Commercial Policy and the Domestic Carrying Trade,
Francois, J.F., H. Arce, J. Flynn, and K.A. Reinert, Canadian Journal of Economics.

The Role of Services in the Structure of Production and Trade: Stylized Facts from a Cross-Country Analysis,
Francois, J.F. and K.A. Reinert, Asia-Pacific Economic Review.

Aggregate Demand Shifts, Income Distribution, and the Linder Hypothesis,
Francois, J.F. and S. Kaplan, Review of Economics and Statistics.

Labor Force Growth, Trade, and Wages,
Francois, J.F., Economic Journal.

Dynamic Implications of International Trade in Financial Services,
Francois, J.F., International Economic Journal.

Global Production and Trade: Factor Migration and Commercial Policy with International Scale Economies,
Francois, J.F., International Economic Review.

“Countervailing the Effects of Subsidies: An Economic Analysis”,
Francois, J.F., Journal of World Trade.

Optimal Commercial Policy with International Returns to Scale,
Francois, J.F., Canadian Journal of Economics.

Trade in Producer Services and Returns Due to Specialization Under Monopolistic Competition
Francois, J.F., Canadian Journal of Economics.

Producer Services, Scale, and the Division of Labor,
Francois, J.F., Oxford Econonomic Papers.

Trade in Nontradables: Proximity Requirements and the Pattern of Trade in Services,
Francois, J.F., Journal of Economic Integration.

Explaining the Pattern of Trade in Producer Services,
(an early 1993 paper, maybe the first?, with gravity modeling of services trade)
Francois, J.F., International Economic Journal.

Measuring Homeownership Costs: Owners, Estimates of Implicit Rents and the Relative Importance of Rental Equivalence in the Consumer Price Index,
Francois, J.F., Real Estate Economics (formerly AREUEA Journal).

Monographs, books, &tc

THE NEXT WTO ROUND: North-South stakes in new market access negotiations,
Francois, J.F., CIES Adelaide and the Tinbergen Institute, CIES: Adelaide. ISBN: 0-86396-474-5.

Dynamic Issue in Applied Commercial Policy Analysis,
Baldwin, R.E. and J.F. Francois, eds.,Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 0-521-64171-3.

Economic Transition and the Greening of Policies,
Brockmeier, M., J.F. Francois, T.W. Hertel, and P. Michael Schmitz, Wissenschaftsverlag Vauk Kiel AG. ISBN: 3-8175-0285-0.

Applied Methods for Trade Policy Analysis: A Handbook,
Francois, J.F. and K.A. Reinert, eds., Cambridge University Press, ISBN:0-521-58997-5.

Modelling Trade Policy: Applied General Equilibrium Assessments of North American Free Trade,
Francois, J.F. and C.R. Shiells, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, ISBN:0-521-450003-9.

Miscellaneous stuff

Preferential Trade Arrangements, Induced Investment, and National Income in a Heckscher-Ohlin-Ramsey Model,
J. Francois and M. Rombout, CEPR and Tinbergen Institute discussion paper.

Victims of Progress: Economic Integration, Specialization, and Wages for Unskilled Labor,
J. Francois and D. Nelson, CEPR and Tinbergen Institute discussion paper.

Imperfectly Competitive Financial Markets and Financial Market Integration,
Francois, J.F.,USITC Research Division Paper 92-08-B.

Factor Mobility, Economic Integration, and the Location of Industry,
Francois, J.F.,in R.E. Baldwin  and A. Brunetti, volume editors, Economic Impact of EU Membership on Entrants:  New Methods and Issues, Kluwer Academic Publishers: Boston/Dordrecht/London.

Transition Dynamics and Trade Policy Reform in Developing Countries,
Francois, J.F. H. Nordstrom and C.R. Shiells,in R.E. Baldwin and J.F. Francois, eds., Dynamic Issue in Applied Commercial Policy Analysis, Cambridge University Press.

Commercial Policy and North-South Migration,
Francois, J.F. and D. Nelson, in R.E. Baldwin and J.F. Francois, eds., Dynamic Issue in Applied Commercial Policy Analysis, Cambridge University Press.

Scale Economies and Imperfect Competition in Applied Trade Models,
Francois, J.F., and D.W. Roland-Holst,in J.F. Francois and K.A. Reinert, eds., Applied Methods for Trade Policy Analysis: A Handbook, Cambridge University Press.

Trade Liberalization and tne Capital Stock in a Multilateral Framework,
Francois, J.F., B.J. McDonald, and H. Nordstrom in R.E. Baldwin and J.F. Francois, eds., Dynamic Issue in Applied Commercial Policy Analysis, Cambridge University Press.

External Bindings and the Credibility of Reform,
Francois, J.F., in A. Galal and B. Hoekman, eds., Regional Partners in Global Markets, Centre for Economic Policy Research.

Telecommunications Network Quality and Export Performance,
Boatman, K. and J. Francois, in Regional Interests and Global Issues: The Challenge of Telecommunications Integration for the Pacific, edited by Mark D. Lofstrom and Dan J. Wedemeyer, Pacific Telecommunications Council.

My  inaugural lecture from my appointment to Tinbergen's former chair at Erasmus University: The International Economy and Economic Development.

 

“Many years ago this was a thriving, happy planet—people, cities, shops, a normal world.  Except that on the high streets of these cities there were slightly more shoe shops than one might have thought necessary. And slowly, insidiously, the numbers of these  shoes shops were increasing.  It’s a well-known economic phenomenon but tragic to see it in operation, for the more shoe shops there were, the more shoes they had to make and the worse the  shoes and more unwearable they became.  And the worse they were to wear, the more people had to buy to keep themselves shod, and the more the shops proliferated, until the whole economy of the place passed what I believe is termed the Shoe Event Horizon, and it  became no longer economically possible to build anything other than shoe  shops.  Result—collapse, ruin,  famine.  Most of the population died  out.”

Douglas Adams,Restaurant at the End of the Universe, PAN:  MACMILLAN, 1980.



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