25 Feb 2025

Policy briefs

The Coalition for a Prosperous America Analysis of a 10% universal tariffs: Comments

The recent Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) claims regarding a 10% universal tariff on all U.S. imports rest on assumptions that that run against established empirical evidence, contradicting hundreds of papers and …

16 Oct 2024

Policy briefs

Pursuing Environmental and Social Objectives through Trade Agreements

Using a data set covering more than 120 countries spanning several decades, this paper employs a synthetic difference in difference estimator to study whether non-trade provisions on labor standards, environmental protection and civil …

16 Oct 2024

Working Papers, Reports/ Presentations

Space Pirates, or, Subsidizing Industrial Sabotage in Outer Space

Much like the exploitation of global trade by the first multinationals, early space commerce has the potential to lead to significant conflict as privateers seek to use force to capture resources from others. …

1 Jun 2023

Journal Articles

A Ricardian Trade Structure in CGE: Modeling Eaton-Kortum Based Trade with GTAP

1 Mar 2023

Journal Articles

Trade and Sustainable Development: Non-Economic Objectives in the Theory of Economic Policy

While the theory of economic policy offers a potential framework for thinking about the joint pursuit of economic objectives (EOs) and non-economic objectives (NEOs), over time the theory of economic policy was formalized …

23 Nov 2022

Working Papers

Pursuing Environmental and Social Objectives through Trade Agreements

WTI working paper No. 08/2022 by Joseph Francois, Bernard Hoekman, Miriam Manchin and Filippo Santi

2 Nov 2022

Working Papers

Energy footprints and the international trade network: A new dataset. Is the European Union doing it better?

WTI Working Paper No. 05/2022 by Octavio Fernandez-Amador, Joseph F. Francois, Doris A. Oberdabernig, Patrick Tomberger

2 Nov 2022

Working Papers

The EU Proposal for a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): An Analysis under WTO and Climate Change Law

WTI Working Paper No. 06/2022 by Ilaria Espa, Joseph Francois and Harro van Asselt

18 Aug 2022

Journal Articles

Methane emissions: Not just some other guy

New column on WoxEU by WTI's Director and Researchers Octavio Fernández-Amador, ​​​​​​​Joseph Francois, Doris Oberdabernig, Patrick Tomberger

3 Aug 2021

Working Papers

Energy footprints and the international trade network: A new dataset. Is the European Union doing it better?

WTI Working Paper No. 01/2021 by Octavio Fernandez-Amador, Joseph Francois, Doris A. Oberdabernig and Patrick Tomberger

26 Jun 2020

Other

From Smoot-Hawley to ‘America first’ and ‘strategic sovereignty’

Column by Koen Berden, Joseph Francois and Fredrik Erixon on VOX CEPR Policy Portal, published on 26 June 2020.

14 Apr 2020

Journal Articles

The methane footprint of nations: Stylized facts from a global panel dataset

Journal Article by Octavio Fernandez-Amador, Joseph F. Francois, Doris Oberdabernig and Patrick Tomberger in "Ecological Economics" Vol. 170 (International Society for Ecological Economics ISEE), published by Elsevier B.V. (open access)

12 Nov 2019

Journal Articles

Economic growth, sectoral structures, and environmental methane footprints

Journal article by Octavio Fernandez-Amador, Joseph F. Francois, Doris A. Oberdabernig and Patrick Tomberger published online in Applied Economics (open access)

17 Oct 2019

Working Papers

Trade Wars: Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition

WTI Working Paper No. 03/2019 by Eddy Bekkers, Joseph F. Francois, Douglas Nelson and Hugo Rojas-Romagosa

17 Oct 2019

Working Papers

Sector and Importer Determinants of Prices for Traded Intermediates

WTI Working Paper No. 04/2019 by Eddy Bekkers, Joseph Francois and Miriam Manchin

22 Nov 2018

Working Papers

Economic Growth, Sectoral Structures, and Environmental Methane Footprints

WTI Working Paper 02/2018, by Octavio Fernández-Amador, Joseph F. Francois, Doris A. Oberdabernig, and Patrick Tomberger.

21 Aug 2018

Reports/ Presentations, Other

Policy Brief: Round 3: 'Trade Discussion' or 'Trade War'? The Estimated Impacts of Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum

The policy paper was featured in Season 5, Episode 81 of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver which aired on 19 August, 2018. The episode focused on US President Donald Trump’s trade war.

13 Aug 2018

Working Papers

Empirical estimates of the methane–income elasticity

WTI Working Paper No. 04/2017 by Octavio Fernández-Amador, Joseph Francois, Doris Oberdabernig and Patrick Tomberger. This working paper was published in Economics Letters (Elsevier), Vol. 171 (2018) pp 137-139.

5 Mar 2018

Other

Does Import Protection Save Jobs? The Estimated Impacts of Proposed Tariffs on Imports of U.S. Steel and Aluminum

The Trade Partnership policy brief by Joseph Francois and Laura M. Baughman

24 Jan 2018

Working Papers

The methane footprint of nations: Evidence from global panel data

WTI Working Paper 01/2018, by Octavio Fernández-Amador, Joseph F. Francois, Doris Oberdabernig, and Patrick Tomberger. This paper is forthcoming in Ecological Economics.

11 Feb 2017

Journal Articles

Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Economic Growth: An Assessment Based on Production and Consumption Emission Inventories

Journal article by Octavio Fernández-Amador, Joseph F. Francois, Doris A. Oberdabernig and Patrick Tomberger in Ecological Economics, Volume 135, May 2017, pp 269–279 ABSTRACT: Working with a new dataset on comparable global CO2 …

31 Aug 2016

Working Papers

The labor content of exports database

World Bank Policy Research paper 7615 by M. Calì, J. Francois, C. Hollweg, M. Manchin, D. Oberdabernig, H. Rojas-Romagosa, S. Rubinova and P. Tomberger

31 Aug 2016

Journal Articles

Trade Costs, Quality, and The Skill Premium

Journal article in Canadian Journal of Economics, Volume 49, Issue 3: 1153–1178 ABSTRACT: We develop a monopolistic competition model with nonhomothetic factor input bundles where increasing quality requires increasing use of skilled workers. …

31 Aug 2016

Working Papers

Melting Ice Caps and the Economic Impact of Opening the Northern Sea Route

E. Bekkers, J. Francois, and H. Rojas-Romagosa, forthcoming Economic Journal ABSTRACT: A consequence of melting Arctic ice caps is the commercial viability of the Northern Sea Route, connecting North-East Asia with North-Western Europe. …

31 Aug 2016

Journal Articles

Melting Ice Caps: Implications for Asian trade with North America and Europe

Article by Amanda M. Countryman; Joseph F. Francois; Hugo Rojas-Romagosa in International Journal of Trade and Global Markets, Vol. 9, No.4 pp. 325-369 ABSTRACT: Arctic ice caps have been melting at an increased …

29 Jul 2016

Journal Articles

MRIO linkages and Switzerland’s CO2 profile

Journal article by Octavio Fernández-Amador, Joseph F. Francois and Patrick Tomberger in Aussenwirtschaft 67.3, pp 47-63, Swiss Institute for International Economics and Applied Economic Research, University of St Gallen ABSTRACT: We examine the …

22 Jun 2016

Journal Articles

Intra-industry Trade in a Rapidly Globalizing Industry: The Case of Wine

Article by Kym Anderson, Joseph Francois, Douglas Nelson, Glyn Wittwer in Review of International Economics, Volume 24, Issue 4, September 2016, pp 820–836

15 Jun 2016

Working Papers

The Macro-economic Impact of e-Commerce in the EU Digital Single Market

European Commission, JRC Technical Reports, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Digital Economy Working Paper 2015/09 by Melisande Cardona, Nestor Duch-Brown, Joseph Francois, Bertin Martens, Fan Yang: This paper examines the economic impact of …

18 May 2016

Books/ Book Chapters, Reports/ Presentations

Tomorrow’s Silk Road: Assessing an EU-China Free Trade Agreement

Report by CEPS and a WTI team led by Joseph Francois

1 May 2016

Journal Articles

Carbon dioxide emissions and international trade at the turn of the millennium

We present a new dataset of geographical production-, final (embodied) production-, and consumption-based carbon dioxide emission inventories, covering 78 regions and 55 sectors from 1997 to 2011. We extend previous work both in …

27 Jan 2016

Reports/ Presentations

TTIP and the EU Member States

An assessment of the economic impact of an ambitious Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership at EU Member State-level commissioned by AmCham EU

8 Nov 2015

Journal Articles

The Role of Goods-Trade Networks for Services-Trade Volume

WTI discussion papers - Peter H. Egger, Joseph Francois and Douglas R. Nelson World Economy, 2015 (published online, print version forthcoming)

26 Oct 2015

Journal Articles

Modes of Supply for US Exports of Services

WTI discussion papers - Elisabeth Christen and Joseph Francois World Economy, 2015 (published online, print version forthcoming)

20 Aug 2015

Journal Articles

Services Linkages and the Value Added Content of Trade

World Economy, 2015 (published online, print version forthcoming) Joseph Francois, Miriam Manchin and Patrick Tomberger

4 Aug 2015

Journal Articles

Non-tariff barriers, integration and the transatlantic economy

Peter Egger, Joseph Francois, Miriam Manchin, Douglas Nelson Economic Policy, volume 30, Issue 83Pp. 539 - 584, 2015

31 Jul 2015

Working Papers

Calibrating a CGE model with NTBs that Incorporates Standard Models of Modern Trade Theory

Deliverable No. 2.3, Working paper by Eddy Bekkers, WTI and wiiw (Vienna), and Joseph Francois, WTI

31 Jul 2015

Working Papers

Special Tax Treatment as Trade Policy: A Database on Export Processing and Special Economic Zones

Deliverable No. 2.1, Working paper on the protectionist nature of certain tax regulations by Ron Davies, University College Dublin and Joseph Francois, WTI

29 Apr 2015

Working Papers

Zum Freihandelsabkommen EU-USA: Auswirkungen auf die Schweiz

Working paper in inside No 2014/4 by Joseph Francois and Charlotte Sieber-Gasser (WTI)

29 Apr 2015

Working Papers

Potential Impacts of an EU-US Free Trade Agreement on the Swiss Economy and External Economic Relations

Study on behalf of SECO by Thomas Cottier (WTI), Peter Egger (ETH Zurich), Joseph Francois (WTI), Miriam Manchin (UCL), Anirudh Shingal (WTI) and Charlotte Sieber-Gasser (WTI)

29 Apr 2015

Working Papers

Mögliche Auswirkungen eines Handels- und Investitionsschutzabkommens EU-USA auf die Schweiz

Working Paper in Volkswitschaft No 87 (7/8, pages 53-56) by Thomas Cottier, Joseph Francois, Anirudh Shingal and Charlotte Sieber-Gasser (WTI)

24 Apr 2015

Journal Articles

Food Price Pass-Through and the Role of Domestic Margin Services

Article by Fan Yang, Eddy Bekkers, Martina Brockmeier and Joseph Francois

23 Mar 2015

Books/ Book Chapters

TTIP, regulatory diversion and third countries

Joseph Francois, Bernard Hoekman and Doug Nelson book chapter in M. Sait Akman, Simon J. Evenett and Patrick Low eds., Catalyst? TTIP’s impact on the Rest, CEPR PRESS: London, pp 19-26

1 Dec 2014

Journal Articles

Political support for trade policy in the European Union

Journal article by Joseph Francois and Douglas R. Nelson, Volume 36, December 2014, Pages 243–253

10 Jul 2014

Reports/ Presentations

Potential Impacts of an EU-US Free Trade Agreement on the Swiss Economy and External Economic Relations

SECO-commissioned study. Main authors: Thomas Cottier (WTI), Joseph Francois (WTI, CEPR), Peter Egger (University of Zurich, CESifo), Miriam Manchin (UCL), Anirudh Shingal (WTI), Charlotte Sieber-Gasser (WTI)

15 Feb 2014

Journal Articles

Protection and Performance

Article by Joseph Francois and Miriam Manchin in World Economy Volume 37, Issue 4, pages 567–578, April 2014

13 Dec 2013

Journal Articles

Bilateral Exchange Rates and Jobs

Article by Eddy Bekkers and Joseph Francois in Review of International Economics 22(2), 275–298, 2014