Thierry Mayer holds a PhD and is a full Professor at the University of Paris-sud, where he teaches European economic, international economic and new economic geography. He is a Scientific Advisor to the CEPII, a research associate with Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE) and a Research Affiliate with the CEPR.

As part of his research into new theories of international trade, the location of multinational firms, the new economic geography and border effects, Thierry Mayer is participating in the following research projects :

Market Potentials Database (2009)
Quality Sorting and Trade: Firm-Level Evidence for French Wine (2008)
The Very Select Club of Exporting Firms (2007)
Bilateral Trade of Cultural Goods (2007)
How Remote is the Offshoring Threat? (2007)
The Erosion of Colonial Trade Linkages after Independence (2007)
Locating in France or Abroad: the Choice of French Firms (2007)
How Remote is the Offshoring Threat for Services (2007)
The Location of Domestic and Foreign Production Affiliates by French Multinational Firms (2007)
Je t'aime, moi non plus : Bilateral Opinions and International Trade (2006)
Institutional Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment (2005)
A New Assessment of the Impact of Regional Agreements on Trade Patterns: The Case of the EU (2005)
Institutional Determinants of Foreign Direc Investment (2005)
Market Access in Global and Regional Trade (2005)
Trade in the Triad: How Easy is the Access to Large Markets? (2004)
The Empirics of Agglomeration and Trade (2003)
How Different is Eastern Europe? Structure and Determinants of Location Choices by French Firms in Eastern and Western Europe (2003)
Can Business and Social Networks Explain the Border Effect Puzzle? (2003)
National Borders Matter... But Less and Less (2002)
Illusory Border Effects: Distance Mismeasurement Inflates Estimates of Home Bias in Trade (2002)
Effet frontière, intégration économique et "Forteresse Europe" (2001)

Trade in the Triad: How Easy is the Access to Large Markets? (Canadian Journal of Economics, vol. 38, n°4, November, 2005)
Border Effects in the Atlantic Triangle (Revista Integración y Comercio, n°22, January-June 2005)
Market Potential and the Location of Japanese Firms in the European Union (Review of Economics and Statistics 86(4), 2004)
How Different is Eastern Europe? Structure and Determinants of Location Choices by French Firms in Eastern and Western Europe (Journal of Comparative Economics, 32(2): 280-296, 2004)
How do Firms Agglomerate? A Study of FDI in France (Regional Science and Urban Economics, 34(1): 27-54, 2004)
Revisiting Oligopolistic Reaction: Are FDI Decisions Strategic Complements (Journal of Economics and Management Stragegy, 11(3): 453-472, 2002)
On the Pervasiveness of Home Market Effects (Economica, 69(275): 371-390, 2002)
Non-Europe : The Magnitude and Causes of Market Fragmentation in Europe (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv , 2000)
Spatial Cournot Competition and Heterogeneous Production Costs Across Locations (Regional Science and Urban Economics , 2000)
Strategic location behaviour : the case of japanese investments in Europe (Journal of Transnational Management Development , 1998)