Lionel FONTAGNE's Research

Research Profile

Work in progress

Fontagné L., Guimbard H., Orefice G. Product Level Trade Elasticities
- Product-level elasticity database available here
Bellora C. , Fontagné L. Shooting Oneself in the Foot? Trade War and Global Value Chains
Fontagné L., Santoni G., GVCs and the Endogenous Geography of RTAs. R&R European Economic Review
Fontagné L., Orefice G. Piermartini R. (2016), Making (small) Firms Happy. The Heterogeneous Effect of Trade Facilitation Measures. R&R Review of International Economics

Selected papers

Fontagné L., Santoni G., (2019), Agglomeration Economies and Firm Level Labor Misallocation, Journal of Economic Geography, 1(1): 252-272, doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lby007
Fontagné L., Martin P., Orefice G. (2018) The International Elasticity Puzzle Is Worse Than You Think - Journal of International Economics, 115: 115-119, doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2018.08.011
Fontagné L., Secchi A., Tomasi C. (2018), Exporters' product vectors across markets, European Economic Review, 110: 150-180. doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2018.08.002
Fontagné L., Orefice G. (2018), Let's Try Next Door: Technical Barriers to Trade and Multi-Destination Firms, European Economic Review, (101): 643 - 663, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2017.11.002
Beestermöller M., Disdier A.C., Fontagné L. (2018), Impact of European Food Safety Border Inspections on Agri-Food Exports: Evidence from Chinese Firms, China Economic Review, 48: 66-82, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2017.11.004
Békès G., Fontagné L., Murakozy B., Vicard V. (2017), Shipment frequency of exporters and demand uncertainty, Review of World Economics, 153(4): 779–807
Fontagné L., Orefice G., Piermartini R., Rocha N. (2015), Product Standards and Margins of Trade: Firm-Level Evidence, Journal of International Economics, 97(1): 29-44.
Blonigen B., Fontagné L., Sly N., Toubal F. (2014), Cherries for sale: The incidence and timing of cross-border M&A, Journal of International Economics, 94(2): 341-357.
Bricongne J.C., Fontagné L., Gaulier G., Taglioni D., Vicard V. (2012), Firms and the global crisis: French exports in the turmoil, Journal of International Economics, 87(1): 134-146

List of publications in refereed journals

Lionel FONTAGNE's complete list of scientific publications

Working papers

Lionel FONTAGNE's complete list of working papers

Shorter papers

I regularly publish short policy papers on international trade issues.

I publish columns in English on VoxEU, the CEPR's policy portal. All my columns are here.
La Lettre du CEPII is a publication mostly in French. All my posts are here.
I also post blogs on the CEPII website. Blogs in English are here.
An evaluation of the Transatlantic Trade and Invesmtent Partnership (TTIP) had been published as a policy brief in 2013.

Book

Fontagné L., Harrison A. (2017), The Factory Free Economy - Outsourding, Servitization and the Future of Industry. Oxford University Press, March

Data

Additional results in relation with my papers, as well as related data and code.

Policy reports

Report of the Committee of Experts (Schubert report) on The impact of the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) on the Environment and Health (in French), published on September 7, 2017
From 2013 to 2017, I co-authored 5 reports for the Conseil d'Analyse Economique (CAE - French Council of Economic Analysis reporting to the Prime Minister): Energy and Competitiveness (2013), No Industry, No Future? (2014), In Search of Lost Market Shares (2015), Time to Decide on French Agriculture (2016), Trade and Climate: Towards reconciliation (2017). The French version of these reports can be acceeded here.
I also contributed 6 reports from 2003 to 2010 on competitiveness and globalization issues for the French Council of Economic Analysis (CAE). These reports (in French only) are available here
The complete list of my policy reports is here