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The World Trade Organization's role in climate change has been a topic of discussion lately. With authority over supply chains and fossil fuel subsidies, many say it could be key in the fight against climate change, even with its mixed track...

Fandi Achmad  (MPP '18) submitted this field report from his summer 2017 internship at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva. Working for the World Trade Organization (WTO) on international trade has always been a dream of mine since deciding...

Alan Deardorff’s “Decision from G20 leaders could prove the tipping point for free trade,” published by The Conversation and syndicated by the Associated Press, encourages G20 leaders to push for the adoption of the World Trade Organization’s Trade...

The fall 2015 issue of State & Hill magazine was mailed to alumni and friends of the Ford School on November 18, 2015. This edition of the magazine, titled “Motor City Remix,” highlighted stories about some of the work Ford School faculty,...

We are deeply saddened to report that Robert M. Stern, professor emeritus of economics and public policy, passed away yesterday after a week-long hospital stay for heart trouble.Bob joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1961 and the...

In March 1990, Associate Dean Alan V. Deardorff shivered in a cold passenger jet on a runway in Alpena, MI. He was seated with his son and his son's friend, in the midst of a plane full of people anxious to escape. They were all waiting for the...

Robert M. Stern was one of a team of three editors of the recently published Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization. According to the publisher, the book that aims to provide "an authoritative and cutting-edge account of the World Trade...

Reacting to China's announcement that it will increase tariffs on large American-made cars and SUVs, Alan Deardorff told Michigan Radio that the World Trade Organization could make such disputes less frequent in the future."These things working...

World Scientific Books published a compilation of materials from Alan V. Deardorff's festschrift as part of its Studies in International Economics series. The book, titled "Comparative Advantage, Growth, and the Gains from Trade and Globalization: a...

Robert M. Stern co-edited a new book, "The Japanese Economy in Retrospect," published by World Scientific. The book, presented in two volumes, contains selected papers by Gary Saxonhouse. Saxonhouse, considered a leading expert on the Japanese...