International Development

International Macroecon and Finance

International Trade & Investment

Macroeconomics & Money

PhD in Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.A. in Economics, Harvard University

“Accounting for Growth: Comparing China and India,” (with Barry Bosworth) Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 22, no. 1 (2008).

“Economic Growth in Puerto Rico,” and “The Policy Options,” (with Barry Bosworth) in The Puerto Rican Economy: Restoring Growth, Washington D.C.: Center for the New Economy and The Brookings Institution (2006).

“The Empirics of Growth: An Update,” (with Barry Bosworth) in Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, (2003:2).

“Minority Groups in the Economics Profession,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, (Vol. 14, No. 2, Spring 2000).

Susan M. Collins is the Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and a Professor of Public Policy and Economics. Prior to coming to Michigan, she was a professor of economics at Georgetown University and a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution. Her area of expertise is international economics, including issues in both macroeconomics and trade. Her current work explores growth experiences in China and India, and she recently co-authored a volume on the Puerto Rican economy. She is currently an elected member of the American Economic Association (AEA) Executive Committee. Collins served as a senior staff economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisers during 1989-90 and chaired the AEA Committee on the Status of Minority Groups during 1994-98. Dean Collins received her B.A., summa cum laude, in economics from Harvard University in 1980, and her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984.