Co-directors of the Research Seminar are Alan V. Deardorff and Linda Tesar, Professors of Economics. Other core faculty include: Kathryn Dominguez, Juan Carlos Hallak, James Levinsohn, Gary Saxonhouse, and Jing Zhang. Several additional faculty members from Economics, Business Administration, and Public Policy also participate actively in the Research Seminar. The Research Seminar is administered by the School of Public Policy and is located on the fourth floor of Lorch Hall, the building that also houses the Department of Economics.
Faculty research currently in progress under the auspices of the Research Seminar includes such topics as: the future of the multilateral trading system; preferential trading arrangements; econometric analysis of trade and trade policies; international taxation, international finance, and international corporate behavior; economic reform and transition; and international political economy.
Research results are reported initially in the form of Discussion Papers. For almost thirty years, these were circulated periodically to about 200 specialists in international economics and to government and international agencies and institutions. More recent discussion papers are available for viewing and downloading here on the World Wide Web.
In 1989, a series of Studies in International Economic Policy was established under the auspices of the University of Michigan Press. Professor Stern is the General Editor of the series.