Sébastien Jean holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Paris I, and he is an engineer from the Ecole Centrale de Paris. He is now a Research Director at the INRA and is also a Scientific Advisor at the CEPII.
Sébastien Jean teaches as a lecturer at the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris), and he is an External Fellow at the Centre for Research on Globalisation and Labour Markets at the University of Nottingham.
Sébastien's main topics of interest are trade policies, the impact of international trade and investment on the labour market, international comparisons of labour markets, the consequences of regulations on product markets.
He headed the CEPII's research programme on "International trade models and databases" until 2005.

Choosing Sensitive Agricultural Products in Trade Negotiations (2008)
Binding Overhang and Tariff-Cutting Formulas (2005)
International Trade and Income Distribution: Reconsidering the Evidence (2005)
The Consequences of Agricultural Trade Liberalization for Developing Countries: Distinguishing Between Genuine Benefits and False Hopes (2005)
From Bound Duties to Actual Protection: Industrial Liberalisation in the Doha Round (2005)
From Bound Duties to Actual Protection: Industrial Liberalisation in the Doha Round (2005)
From Bound to Applied Duties: Measuring the Binding Overhang (2005)
The Worldwide Distribution of Ad Valorem Equivalent, Applied Tariff Duties for Agricultural Products (2005)
A Consistent, Ad-Valorem Equivalent Measure of Applied Protection Across the World: the MAcMap-HS6 Database (2004)
The Impact of Multilateral Liberalisation on European Regions: a CGE Assessment (2004)
Multilateral Agricultural Trade Liberalization: the Contrasting Fortunes of Developing Countries in the Doha Round (2004)
Regionalism and the Regionalisation of International Trade (2004)
Agricultural Trade Liberalisation: Its Ambiguous Consequences on Developing Countries (2004)
Regulation and Wage Premia (2004)
The WTO: in the Trough of the Trade Round (2003)
Market Access Liberalisation in the Doha Round: Scenarios and Assessment (2003)
Market Access: the Objectives after Doha (2002)
MIRAGE, a Computable General Equilibrium Model for Trade Policy Analysis (2002)
Market Access: the Objectives after Doha (2002)
The Effect of International Trade on Labour-Demand Elasticities: Intersectoral Matters", Document de travail (2000)
What Drove Relative Wages in France? Structural Decomposition Analysis in a General Equilibrium Framework, 1970-1992 (2000)
Wages and Unemployment: The Impact of Trade and Technology Under Different Labour Market Paradigms (1998)

Assessing Applied Protection Across the World (Review of International Economics, 16(5), pp.850-863, février 2008)
Consequences of Alternative Formulas for Agricultural Tariff Cuts (Agricultural Trade Reform and the Doha Development Agenda, 2005)
Product Market Regulation and Sectoral Wage Premia in Europe and North America: An Empirical Investigation (OCDE, 2001)
The Impact of Globalisation on Employment in Industrialised Countries (OCDE, 2001)
The Effect of International Trade on Labour-Demand Elasticities: Intersectoral Matters (The Review of International Economics, 2000)
Trade and the Labour Market : the French Case (Oxford University Press, 1999)
Does Competition from Emerging Countries Threaten Unskilled Labour in Europe? An Applied General Equilibrium Approach (Macmillan, 1998)