Prof Joseph Francois. Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, and Senior Research Fellow, Department of Economics, Strathclyde Business School.

Strathclyde University Affiliated Researchers and External Associates : 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, research fellow with the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, and a board member of the Global Trade Analysis Project. I serve on the editorial board of 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 Erasmus 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.

Strathclyde University Affiliated Researchers and External Associates: My current research interests are somewhat scattered. They include: trade linkages to recession and growth; globalization and in equality trends: trade in services; open economy competition policy and the regulation of firm behavior; 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).

Strathclyde University Affiliated Researchers and External Associates : 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You can find links to most of the papers listed below (published and unpublished) on the right.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 working papers: Market Structure and Market Access, Francois, J. and I. Wooton, fothcoming inWorld Economy. Services Trade and Policy , Francois, J. and B. Hoekman, this version 2009, forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Literature. Trading Profiles and Developing Country Participation in the WTO Dispute Settlement System, Francois, J., H.Horn and N. Kaunitz, this version 2008. Heterogeneous Firms, the Structure of Industry & Trade under Oligopoly, Bekkers, E. and J. Francois, this version 2008. Dynamic Factor Price Equalization and International Convergence, J. Francois and C. Shiells, this version 2008. Equity and International Trade, J. Francois and H. Rojas-Romagosa, 2008. Economic perspectives for Central America after CAFTA, J. Francois, L. Rivera, and H. Rojas-Romagosa, this version 2008. Reassessing the relationship between inequality and development, J. Francois & H.Rojas-Romagosa, this version 2008. Cross-Border Trade and FDI in Services, C. Fillat-Castejon, J. Francois, and J. Woerz, this version 2008. Endogenous Protection in General Equilibrium: estimating political weights in the EU, Francois, J., D. Nelson and A, Balaoing, this version 2008. Institutions, Infrastructure, and Trade, Francois J and M. Manchin, this version 2007.

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