1 May 2025

Working Papers

Navigating the Trade Storm: Multilateral Flanking of US Transactionalism

With near constant change in Donald Trump’s bilateral tariff policies, the global economy finds itself in uncharted territory. On top of Trump’s various tariff increases, we have witnessed tariff-based retaliation, U.S. retaliation against …

26 Mar 2025

Working Papers

General equilibrium effects of technical non-tariff measures: evidence from bilateral trade cost estimates

We estimate the trade and income effects of regulatory developments concerning standardlike non-tariff measures (NTMs) over 2012–2017 combining structural gravity estimates and general equilibrium projections. The trade cost effects of regulatory changes vary …

26 Mar 2025

Working Papers

Deep Trade Agreements, Development Assistance and Sustainability Goals

The literature on preferential trade agreements (PTAs) has mainly focused on the trade effects of nontrade provisions (NTPs) addressing environmental or labor policies. Using a dataset covering more than 120 countries and several …

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.