I am a Lead Researcher at the Institute for New Economic Thinking and at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford, and deputy director of the Complexity Economics programme. I am also an associate member of Nuffield College, Oxford, a member of the external faculty of the Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, and affiliated researcher at Macrocosm.

My main areas of research are in the economics of innovation and productivity, environmental economics, networks and complex systems, applied econometrics and forecasting.

Contact: francois.lafond at inet.ox.ac.uk
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NEWS

[9 February 2026] Updated paper: Do common shocks drive changes in aggregate emissions intensity?

[27 June 2025] New version of “Firm-level production networks: what do we (really) know?”.