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Javier Flórez Mendoza

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Economist

email: mendoza@wiiw.ac.at
telephone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-18

Javier Flórez Mendoza is Economist at wiiw. His research focuses on international trade, environmental economics and regional economics. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Universidad Santo Tomas Bucaramanga in Colombia and a Master's degree in International Economics from the University of Tübingen in Germany. Currently he is enrolled in a pre-doc position funded by the FIW (Kompetenzzentrum Forschungsschwerpunkt Internationale Wirtschaft).

Austria, Vienna

External Publications

• 'The Granular Trade and Production Activities (GRANTPA) Database' (with Sebastien Bradley, Mario Larch and Yoto V. Yotov), Cambridge University Press, World Trade Review, July 2026, pp. 1 - 16

• 'Determinantes de Los Canales de Búsqueda de Empleo en Santander, Colombia Para el Año 2014' (with Jaime Andrés Castro), Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico, D.F., 7-9 October 2015

• 'Global Value Chains and Inclusive Development: Asian Development Policy Report 2026' (with Oliver Reiter and Robert Stehrer), Asian Development Policy Report Serie, Asian Development Bank, May 2026
• 'The EU-India Free Trade Agreement' (with Michael Landesmann and Robert Stehrer), FIW Policy Briefs, FIW-PB 74, April 2026
• 'Paluu Huipulle Vaatii Tarkkuutta: Kompleksisuustaloustieteellinen tarkastelu Suomen tavaraviennistä ja valtion strategisista valinnoista (Finnish); Return to the top requires precision: A Complexity Economics Analysis of Finland’s Goods Exports and Government Strategic Choices' (with Antti Alaja, Francesca Guadagno, Doris Hanzl-Weiss and Lauri Holappa), KASVU Atlas 2026, SITRA, April 2026
• 'Africa`s trade with Europe: Trends, status and potential developments' (with Robert Stehrer), FIW Policy Brief series, No. 65, January 2025
• 'The Granular Trade and Production Activities (GRANTPA) Database' (with Sebastien Bradley, Mario Larch and Yoto V. Yotov), School of Economics Working Paper Series, 2024-1, LeBow College of Business, Drexel University, January 2024
• 'The EU–Mercosur agreement: Expectations and concerns in light of the new geopolitical situation' (with Bernhard Moshammer), FIW Policy Brief series, No. 60, November 2023
• 'The EU-Colombia Free Trade Agreement: A GEPPML Assessment', Degree Dissertation for the Master Examination in International Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences of the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, February 2021

wiiw Publications

• 'Monthly Report No. 06/2026' (with Gentian Gashi, Meryem Gökten, Richard Grieveson, Gabor Hunya, Juliane Unger and David Zenz), Vasily Astrov (eds), wiiw Monthly Report, No. 06, Vienna, June 2026
• 'Research in brief: Geoeconomic fragmentation: lessons for Europe and CESEE', in: Vasily Astrov (eds), Monthly Report No. 04/2026, wiiw Monthly Report, No. 04, Vienna, April 2026, pp. 25-27
• 'US tariffs on Canada, China and Mexico and their effect on Central and Eastern Europe' (with Oliver Reiter), in: Vasily Astrov (eds), Monthly Report No. 2/2025, wiiw Monthly Report, No. 2, Vienna, February 2025, pp. 16-21
• 'Innovation in climate change mitigation technologies across Europe' (with Chiara Castelli, Ronald B. Davies, Mahdi Ghodsi and Francesca Micocci), in: Vasily Astrov (eds), Monthly Report No. 6/2024, wiiw Monthly Report, No. 6, Vienna, June 2024, pp. 21-29
• 'Revisiting the benefits of EU membership: the case for the Western Balkans and Moldova' (with Oliver Reiter), in: Vasily Astrov (eds), Monthly Report No. 3/2023, wiiw Monthly Report, No. 3, Vienna, March 2023, 12-19

• 'Drivers of FDI in the EU: Regulatory distance and revealed technological advantage' (with Chiara Castelli, Ronald B. Davies and Mahdi Ghodsi), wiiw Working Paper, No. 264, Vienna, June 2025
• 'EU carbon border tax: General equilibrium effects on income and emissions' (with Oliver Reiter and Robert Stehrer), wiiw Working Paper, No. 254, Vienna, November 2024
• 'The Granular Trade and Production Activities (GRANTPA) Database' (with Sebastien Bradley, Mario Larch and Yoto V. Yotov), wiiw Working Paper, No. 248, Vienna, June 2024

• 'Harnessing FDI for innovation and green growth in the EU: Some evidence-based policy recommendations' (with Chiara Castelli, Ronald B. Davies, Mahdi Ghodsi, Francesca Guadagno, Francesca Micocci and Armando Rungi), wiiw Policy Note/Policy Report, No. 97, Vienna, June 2025
• 'Impacts of the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism' (with Oliver Reiter and Robert Stehrer), wiiw Policy Note/Policy Report, No. 86, Vienna, November 2024