Joseph Francois

Johannes Kepler Universität Linz and CEPR

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Joseph Francois is Professor of Economics at Johannes Kepler Universität Linz and a Research Fellow in the CEPR  International Trade and Regional Economics Programme. He is also director and co-founder of the European Trade Study Group, and a board member of the Global Trade Analysis Project. He has served as senior economist at the GATT/WTO (in charge of economic modeling) during the Uruguay Round, and Chief of Research and Acting Director of Economics for the U.S. International Trade Commission during the NAFTA negotiations. His research interests include: trade in services, competition policy in open economies, economic integration; the multilateral trading system and computational partial and general equilibrium modelling. He posts an occasional blog on the global economy (http://www.intereconomics.com/blogs/jff/blogger.html).