Elisabeth van Lieshout

I am a policy analyst at the OECD. As part of the trade policy division, I work to understand the trends and policies that shape international trade. The OECD’s publications and data on trade can be found here.

Previously, I conducted research at Stanford on the politics of international economic cooperation. The work linked on this website contains my own views and may not represent those of the OECD.

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OECD publications

The market implications of industrial subsidies. OECD Trade Policy Paper, 2025. (with Jehan Sauvage, Valentine Millot and Łukasz Rawdanowicz) (VoxEU)

Mapping efforts to protect worker rights in supply chains. OECD Trade Policy Paper, 2025. (with Alexander Jaax)

New evidence on the effects of services trade at the worker level. OECD Trade Policy Paper, 2025. (with Alexander Jaax)

How governments back the largest manufacturing firms: insights from the OECD MAGIC database. OECD Trade Policy Paper, 2025. (with Jehan Sauvage, Valentine Millot and Łukasz Rawdanowicz) (VoxEU)

Digital trade and labour markets in the United Kingdom. OECD Trade Policy Paper, 2024. (with Sebastian Benz and Alexander Jaax)

Women-led firms in international trade. SME and Entrepreneurship Outlook, 2023. (with Annabelle Mourougane and Jane Korinek) (VoxEU)

Deglobalisation? The reorganisation of global value chains in a changing world. OECD Trade Policy Paper, 2023. (with Alexander Jaax and Sébastien Miroudot)

Right here, right now? New evidence on the economic effects of services trade reform. OECD Trade Policy Paper, 2023. (with Sebastian Benz, Alexander Jaax, and Matteo Fiorini)

Other research

PTariff: Preferential Trade Agreements Tariff Treatment. Forthcoming dataset. (with Eric Thai)

Improving public support for climate action through multilateralism. Nature Communications, 2022. (with Michael Bechtel and Kenneth Scheve)

Demanding deals: the politics of preferential trade agreements. PhD dissertation, 2021.

Trade. In: Oxford Handbook of International Political Economy, Jon Pevehouse & Leonard Seabrooke (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2021.

Constant carbon pricing increases support for climate action compared to ramping up costs over time. Nature Climate Change, 2020. (with Michael Bechtel and Kenneth Scheve) (policy brief)

Is there a future for multilateral trade agreements? In: Handbook of Global Trade Policy, Andreas Klasen (ed.), Wiley Blackwell, 2019. (with Judith Goldstein)