Lionel FONTAGNE

Bio

Present positions:

• Professor at the Paris School of Economics – University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
• Scientific advisor to the Centre d’Etudes Prospectives et d’Informations Internationales (CEPII)

Positions held:

• Director, Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne (UMR 8174 CNRS)
• Member of the Conseil d’analyse économique (Council of Economic Analysis)
• Director of the Centre d’Etudes Prospectives et d’Informations Internationales (CEPII)
• Part-time professor at the Institut Universitaire Européen (Firenze)
• Supply Professor at the Free University of Brussels and Professor at the University of Nantes
• Consultant to the Bank of France, to the OECD Development Centre, to the OECD Directorate for Science Technology and Industry, to the World bank, to the Ministry of Finance of the Luxembourg, and to the French Ministry of Finance

Education:

• Agrégation in Economics (rank: 1st)
• Research Habilitation from the University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
• PhD. in economics from the University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne

Main publications:

• Fontagné L., Santoni G., (2019), Agglomeration Economies and Firm Level Labor Misallocation, Journal of Economic Geography, 1(1): 252-272
•  Fontagné L., Martin P., Orefice G.  (2018) The International Elasticity Puzzle Is Worse Than You Think – Journal of International Economics​​, 115: 115-119​
•  Fontagné L., Secchi A., Tomasi C. (2018), Exporters’ product vectors across markets, European Economic Review, 110: 150-180. ​
•  Fontagné L., Orefice G. (2018), Let’s Try Next Door: Technical Barriers to Trade and Multi-Destination Firms, European Economic Review, (101): 643 – 663

Economic field of expertise:

International trade, trade policies, European integration, foreign direct investments