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Françoise

Nom de l'expert

NICOLAS

Senior Advisor, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri

Research Areas:

Emerging economies, with a focus on East Asia
East Asian regional economic integration
Foreign direct investment and growth
Globalization and its impacts on global governance

Center for Asian Studies

Françoise Nicolas joined Ifri as a Resarch Fellow in1990 and was later the Director of the Center for Asian Studies until February 2024. She is now Senior Advisor to the Center for Asian Studies while she also teaches at Langues' O, Sciences Po Paris (Europe-Asia programme, Le Havre campus) and Sciences Po (Lyon) and is a consultant to the Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprise Affairs of the OECD (DAF) focusing on Southeast Asian non-member countries. In the past she was an assistant Professor in international economics at the University of Paris-Est (Marne-la-Vallée) from 1993 to 2016, and taught at the Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS, Geneva – 1987-90), at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (1991-95), as well as at the HEC School of Management (2000-02).

Françoise Nicolas holds a Ph.D in international economics (1991) and a MA in political science (1985) from the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva, Switzerland), as well as a diploma in translation from the University of Geneva (1980). She has also studied at the University of Sussex (1980-81) and has spent some time as a visiting fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) in Singapore (1999) and at the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP) in Seoul (2004).

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Publications

External Book Chapters

China and Post-Crisis Regional Financial Cooperation in East Asia

31 December 2012

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Papers

Doors Wide Shut? An Update on FDI Regulations in China

30 January 2012

The fears of a rise in economic nationalism in China have been fueled by a number of recent moves, such as changes in the law on indigenous innovation or the enactment of a national security review (NSR) regulation for M&As by foreign enterprises. The objective of the current paper is twofold: First is to provide an update on the investment environment in China in order to determine whether or not these provisions reflect a move in the direction of more protectionism, and second is to suggest ways for European countries to level the playing field for their firms wishing to invest in China.

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External Articles

Chinese ODI in France: Motives, Strategies and Implications

30 January 2012

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Papers

The EU and the Crisis: Do We Need More Integration?

07 December 2011

The European Union is facing a tremendous challenge: coming out of the crisis unified. Every summit is both labeled the one of all hopes and the one of the last chance. Information keeps coming in, which hampers a good comprehension of the situation.

Vivien PERTUSOT Nele Katharina WISSMANN Françoise NICOLAS Hans STARK Philippe MOREAU DEFARGES

Papers

East Asian Regional Economic Integration: A Post-Crisis Update

09 September 2011

To the surprise of many analysts, the outbreak of the global financial crisis (GFC) in 2008 did not leave East Asian economies unscathed. The objective of the paper is to examine the implications of the GFC for the regional economic integration process in East Asia, taking into account both the de facto and the de jure dimensions.

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Papers

The G20 from Seoul to Cannes : Towards a Global Governance Committee

07 April 2011

After two years of existence at the Heads of State and Government level, the Group of 20 (G20) has reached a turning point. In this new context, a number of questions need to be addressed-in particular, as to how to ensure the transition from a crisis management body to a global governance committee. How can the G20 solve the legitimacy problems inherent to its structure and nature? How can it address its representativeness deficit? What should be the exact mandate of the Group and how can this mandate be achieved?

Françoise NICOLAS LIM Wonhyuk

External Book Chapters

De facto Trade Integration and Exchange Rate Policies in East Asia

01 July 2010

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Papers

Chinese and Indian Economic Presence in the Maghreb

24 June 2010

One of the major events of the last couple of decades has been the rise of China and India, reflected by their increasingly important economic presence in the world, both in terms of trade flows and of foreign direct investments.

Africa, which has long remained the former colonial powers" “private hunting ground”, does not seem to escape from Indian and Chinese presence and activity, hence worrying Africa"s traditional partners.

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