International Economics/Trade

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

"Minority Groups in the Economics Profession," Journal of Economic Perspectives, (2000:3).

"Capital Flows to Developing Economies: Implications for Saving and Investment," (with Barry Bosworth) Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, (1999:1).

"Real Exchange Rate Misalignments and Growth," (with Ofair Razin) in Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka (eds.) International Economic Integration: Public Economics Perspectives, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1999).

"Economic Integration and the American Worker: An Overview" in Susan M. Collins (ed.) Imports, Exports and the American Worker, Washington DC: The Brookings Institution (1998).

"Domestic Adjustments to Globalization: the United States," in Hadi Soesastro and Charles Morrison (eds) Domestic Adjustments to Globalization, Tokyo: Japan Center for International Exchange (1998).

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. 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.