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Overview

Joseph Francois is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with a focus on several subfields including Economics and Econometrics, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Development, and Environmental Engineering.

Francois's work extensively covers topics related to global trade and economics, energy, environment, and transportation policies, as well as international development and aid. Other notable areas of their research include economic theories and models, economic policies and impacts, fiscal policy and economic growth, and monetary policy and economic impact.

The scientist has published multiple papers in varied scholarly venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • World Trade Review
  • Journal of Global Economic Analysis
  • Review of International Economics
  • World Scientific Studies in International Economics

Recent scholarly papers authored or co-authored by Francois include:

  • Trade and Sustainable Development: Non-Economic Objectives in the Theory of Economic Policy, 2023, World Trade Review
  • Modelling trade and other economic interactions between countries in baseline projections, 2020, Journal of Global Economic Analysis

Other notable papers in which Francois participated are:

  • EU Trade Agreements and Non-Trade Policy Objectives, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Energy footprints and the international trade network: A new dataset. Is the European Union doing it better?, 2022, Ecological Economics
  • Trade wars and trade disputes: The role of equity and political support, 2024, Review of International Economics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Francois include Bernard Hoekman, Miriam Manchin, Eddy Bekkers, Douglas Nelson, and Filippo Santi.

In addition to articles, Francois has contributed to academic books published by notable publishers. Their book publications include:

  • Pursuing Environmental and Social Objectives through Trade Agreements, 2023, World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks
  • Policy Analysis and Modeling of the Global Economy, 2020, World Scientific

Best Publications

  • The costs and benefits of eastern enlargement: the impact on the EU and central Europe

    Richard E. Baldwin;Joseph F. Francois;Richard Portes

  • The World Input-Output Database (WIOD): Contents, Sources and Methods

    Marcel Timmer;Abdul A. Erumban;Reitze Gouma;Bart Los

  • Institutions, Infrastructure and Trade

    Joseph Francis Francois;Miriam Manchin

  • Services Trade and Policy

    Joseph F. Francois;Bernard Hoekman

  • Reducing transatlantic barriers to trade and investment: An economic assessment

    Joseph Francois;Miriam Manchin;Hanna Norberg;Olga Pindyuk

  • PRODUCER SERVICES, SCALE, AND THE DIVISION OF LABOR

    Joseph F. Francois

  • Producer Services, Manufacturing Linkages, and Trade

    Joseph Francois;Joseph Francois;Joseph Francois;Julia Woerz

  • Trade liberalization in the Doha Development Round

    J. Francois;H. van Meijl;F.W. van Tongeren

  • Applied methods for trade policy analysis : a handbook

    Joseph F. Francois;Kenneth A. Reinert

  • Institutions, Infrastructure, and Trade

    Joseph F. Francois;Joseph F. Francois;Miriam Manchin

  • Trade in Producer Services and Returns due to Specialization under Monopolistic Competition

    Joseph F. Francois

  • Preference erosion and multilateral trade liberalization

    Joseph Francois;Bernard Hoekman;Miriam Manchin

  • Preference erosion and multilateral trade liberalization

    Joseph François;Bernard Hoekman;Miriam Manchin

  • Modeling Trade Policy: Applied General Equilibrium Assessments of North American Free Trade

    Joseph F. Francois;Clinton R. Shiells

  • Agriculture and Non-Agricultural Liberalization in the Millennium Round

    Thomas W. Hertel;Kym Anderson;Joseph F. Francois;Will Martin

  • Melting ice Caps and the Economic Impact of Opening the Northern Sea Route

    Eddy Henricus Bekkers;Joseph Francois;Hugo Rojas-Romagosa

  • Scale Economies and Imperfect Competition in the GTAP Model

    Joseph Francois

  • Scale Economies and Imperfect Competition in the GTAP Model

    Joseph F. Francois

  • Agriculture and Non-agricultural Liberalization in the Millennium Round

    Thomas W Hertel;Kym Anderson;Kym Anderson;Kym Anderson;Joseph F Francois;Will Martin

  • Non-Tariff Measures in EU-US Trade and Investment – An Economic Analysis

    Saara Tamminen;Joseph Francois;Koen Berden;Martin Thelle

  • TRADE IN INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT SERVICES: THE ROLE OF COMPETITION

    Joseph F. Francois;Ian Wooton

  • The Cost of Rich (and Poor) Country Protection to Developing Countries

    Kym Anderson;Betina Dimaranan;Joseph Francois;Thomas Hertel

  • Commercial policy variability, bindings, and market access ☆

    Joseph François;Joseph François;William Martin

  • Non-tariff barriers, integration and the transatlantic economy

    Peter Egger;Joseph Francois;Miriam Manchin;Douglas Nelson

  • Aggregate Demand Shifts, Income Distribution, and the Linder Hypothesis

    Joseph F. Francois;Seth Kaplan

  • Institutions, Infrastructure, and Trade

    Joseph F. Francois

Frequent Co-Authors

Will Martin
Will Martin International Food Policy Research Institute
Bernard Hoekman
Bernard Hoekman European University Institute
Kym Anderson
Kym Anderson University of Adelaide
Richard E. Baldwin
Richard E. Baldwin IMD Business School
Thomas W. Hertel
Thomas W. Hertel Purdue University West Lafayette
Richard Portes
Richard Portes London Business School
Peter Egger
Peter Egger ETH Zurich
Hans van Meijl
Hans van Meijl Wageningen University & Research
Ronald B. Davies
Ronald B. Davies University College Dublin
Lionel Fontagné
Lionel Fontagné Banque de France

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