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Thierry Mayer

Thierry Mayer

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Economics and Finance
France
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
63
Citations
28553
World Ranking
676
National Ranking
12

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in France Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in France Leader Award

Overview

Thierry Mayer is affiliated with Sciences Po in France and is focused primarily on the field of Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Their research spans multiple subfields including Economics and Econometrics, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Strategy and Management, Sociology and Political Science, and Finance.

Their work concentrates heavily on topics related to global trade and economics, firm innovation and growth, economic policies and impacts, as well as mergers and competition analysis. Specific areas of interest include global trade and competitiveness, the global financial crisis and policies, and fiscal policy and economic growth.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Product Mix and Firm Productivity Responses to Trade Competition, 2020, The Review of Economics and Statistics
  • The United States of Europe: A Gravity Model Evaluation of the Four Freedoms, 2021, The Journal of Economic Perspectives
  • The Refugee's Dilemma: Evidence from Jewish Migration out of Nazi Germany, 2023, The Quarterly Journal of Economics
  • Technology-induced trade shocks? Evidence from broadband expansion in France, 2021, Journal of International Economics
  • Estimating the effect of exchange rate changes on total exports, 2020, Journal of International Money and Finance

They have frequently collaborated with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Marc J. Melitz
  • Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano
  • Keith Head
  • Clément Malgouyres
  • Camilo Umaña-Dajud

Their work has appeared in several publication venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of International Economics
  • The Review of Economics and Statistics

Best Publications

  • Gravity Equations: Workhorse,Toolkit, and Cookbook

    Keith Head;Keith Head;Thierry Mayer;Thierry Mayer;Thierry Mayer

  • Market Size, Competition, and the Product Mix of Exporters

    Thierry Mayer;Marc J. Melitz;Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano

  • Institutional Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment

    Agnès Benassy-Quere;Maylis Coupet;Thierry Mayer

  • Institutional Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment

    Agnès Bénassy-Quéré;Maylis Coupet;Thierry Mayer

  • The erosion of colonial trade linkages after independence

    Keith Head;Keith Head;Thierry Mayer;John Ries

  • Notes on CEPII’s distances measures: the GeoDist database

    Thierry Mayer;Soledad Zignago

  • Notes on CEPII’s Distances Measures: The GeoDist Database

    Thierry Mayer;Soledad Zignago

  • Market Potential and the Location of Japanese Investment in the European Union

    Keith Head;Thierry Mayer

  • The empirics of agglomeration and trade

    Keith Head;Thierry Mayer

  • Economic Geography: The Integration of Regions and Nations

    Pierre-Philippe Combes;Thierry Mayer;Thierry Mayer;Thierry Mayer;Jacques François Thisse

  • Non-Europe: The magnitude and causes of market fragmentation in the EU

    Keith Head;Thierry Mayer

  • Market Size, Competition, and the Product Mix of Exporters

    Thierry Mayer;Marc J. Melitz;Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano

  • How do firms agglomerate? A study of FDI in france

    Matthieu Crozet;Thierry Mayer;Jean-Louis Mucchielli

  • The Trade Creating Effects of Business and Social Networks: Evidence from France

    Pierre-Philippe Combes;Miren Lafourcade;Thierry Mayer

  • How do Different Exporters React to Exchange Rate Changes

    Nicolas Berman;Philippe Martin;Thierry Mayer

  • Quality Sorting and Trade: Firm-level Evidence for French Wine

    Matthieu Daniel Crozet;Keith Head;Thierry Mayer

  • The Happy Few: The Internationalisation of European Firms

    Thierry Mayer;Thierry Mayer;Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano;Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano;Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano

  • Make Trade not War

    Philippe Martin;Thierry Mayer;Mathias Thoenig

  • Regional Wage and Employment Responses to Market Potential in the EU

    Keith Head;Thierry Mayer

  • Spatial concentration and plant-level productivity in France

    Philippe Martin;Thierry Mayer;Florian Mayneris

  • Illusory Border Effects: Distance mismeasurement inflates estimates of home bias in trade

    Keith Head;Thierry Mayer

  • The Happy Few: The internationalisation of European firms. New facts based on firm-level evidence. Bruegel blueprint series, Volume 3, November 2007

    Thierry Mayer;Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano

  • How different is Eastern Europe? Structure and determinants of location choices by French firms in Eastern and Western Europe

    Anne-Célia Disdier;Thierry Mayer

  • Civil Wars and International Trade

    Philippe Martin;Thierry Mayer;Mathias Thoenig

  • The trade-creating effects of business and social networks: evidence from France

    Pierre-Philippe Combes;Miren Lafourcade;Thierry Mayer

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith Head
Keith Head University of British Columbia
Philippe Martin
Philippe Martin Sciences Po
Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano
Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano Bocconi University
Lionel Fontagné
Lionel Fontagné Banque de France
Marc J. Melitz
Marc J. Melitz Harvard University
Gilles Duranton
Gilles Duranton University of Pennsylvania
Jacques-François Thisse
Jacques-François Thisse Université Catholique de Louvain
Agnès Bénassy-Quéré
Agnès Bénassy-Quéré Pantheon-Sorbonne University

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