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January, 2017
CURRICULUM VITAE
Robert Thomas Kudrle
Office Address: Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs
University of Minnesota
254 Humphrey School
301 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612) 625-3338
E-mail address:
Home Address: 4650 Fremont Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55419 (612) 825-6096
Present Position: Orville and Jane Freeman Professor International Trade and Investment Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs and the Law School, University of Minnesota
Previous
Experience: Director, Freeman Center for International Economic Policy, 1990-1997;
2007-
Associate Dean for Research,
Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, 1992-1996
Director, Master of Arts Program in Public Affairs, 1984-1986
University of Minnesota: Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor, Institute of Public Affairs, 1972- 2006
Assistant and Associate Director,
Harold Scott Quigley Center of International Studies, 1972-1982
Texas A&M University: Lecturer, Department of Economics, 1971-72
Harvard University: Resident Tutor in Economics, Eliot House 1968-70;
Teaching Fellow, Department of Economics, 1969-71
Graduate Studies: Harvard University, A.M. (Economics) 1969, Ph.D., 1974
University of Oxford, M. Phil. (Economics) 1967
Scholarships
and Fellowships: Rhodes Scholarship, 1964-67;
Nuffield College Studentship (University of Oxford), 1966-67
Harvard Graduate Prize Fellowship, 1967-69
Graduate Research Associate,
Harvard Center for International Affairs, 1969-71
Undergraduate
Studies: Harvard College, A.B. magna cum laude (Government), 1964
Selected
Publications:
“U.S. Airlines and Antitrust: The Struggle for Defensible Policy towards a Unique Industry” (with Daniel J. Gifford), Indiana Law Review, forthcoming.
“Towards a Coherent and Workable Antitrust Policy on Vertical Restraints”
(with Daniel J. Gifford), Journal of Law, Economics, and Policy, forthcoming.
“Bundling and High-Tech Industries” (with Daniel J. Gifford) in Daniel Sokol, ed. Cambridge Antitrust, Intellectual Property, and Technology Handbook, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
“The Transparency Wave in International Tax Legalization” University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, 37:4, 2016.
“Expatriation: A Last Refuge for the Rich?” Global Policy, 6:4 November, 2015
The Atlantic Divide in Antitrust: An Examination of U.S. and EU Competition Policy (with Daniel J. Gifford), University of Chicago Press, 2015
“The OECD and The International Tax Regime: Persistence Pays Off,” Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, June 2014 (published online September 19, 2013).
“Whose ‘Treasure Islands’? The Role of Tax Havens in the Global Economy’?” Tax Notes International, June 25, 2012 (revised version of a paper presented at the annual convention of the International Studies Association, San Diego, April 1-4, 2012)
“Governing Economic Globalization: The Pioneering Experience of the OECD,” Journal of World Trade, Volume 46, No. 3 (June) 2012
“Antitrust Approaches to Dynamically Competitive Industries in the United States and the European Union,” (with Daniel J. Gifford) Journal of Competition Law and Economics, Volume 7, No. 3, 2011
“Tax Havens” in Mark Juergenmeyer and Helmut Anheier, eds, Encyclopedia of Global Studies, Sage Publications, 2011
“Tax Policy in the OECD: Soft Governance Gets Harder,” in
Kerstin Martens and Anja Jakobi, eds. Mechanisms of OECD Governance: International Incentives for National Policy Making , Oxford University Press, 2010
“The Law and Economics of Price Discrimination in Modern Economies: Time for Reconciliation?” (with Daniel J. Gifford). Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-21 Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1188722, revised version published in the University of California, Davis Law Review, Vol. 43, No. 4, 2010 (April)
“Ending the Tax Haven Scandals,” Global Economy Journal, October 2009.
“Trade and Competition Policy in the Developing World: Is There a Role
for the WTO?” (with Daniel J. Gifford) in Chantal Thomas and Joel Trachtman, eds., Developing Countries in the WTO Legal System, Oxford University Press, 2009.
“Did Blacklisting Hurt the Tax Havens?” Journal of Money Laundering Control, Volume 11, No.1, 2009 (revised version of Bocconi University Paolo Baffi Centre Research Paper No. 2008-23)
“The OECD’s ‘Harmful Tax Competition’ Project and the Tax Havens: From Bombshell to Damp Squib,” Global Economy Journal, Volume 8, No. 1, 2008.
“U.S. Defection from the OECD ‘Harmful Tax Competition’ Project: Rhetoric and Reality” in Davis Bobrow, ed. Hegemony Constrained: International Challenges to American Policies: Evasion, Modification, and Resistance to American Foreign Policy, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008
“The Globalization of Competition Policy” in Sushil Vachani ed., Transformations in Global Governance: Implications for Multinationals
and Stakeholders, Edward Elgar, 2006.
“Cost-Benefit and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of the Impact of Fluoridation” in Healthcare in Kuwait, edited by George Gillespie, 2006.
“A U.S. Policy Change Leads to a Surprising Discovery about
Canada,” in Common Good: Ideas from the Humphrey, edited by John E. Brandl, Hubert Humphrey Institute, 2006.
“Rhetoric and Reality in the Merger Standards of the United States, Canada, and the European Union” (with Daniel J. Gifford), Antitrust Law Journal, Volume 72, Issue 2, 2005.
"Tax Havens: Renegade States in the International Tax Regime?" (with Lorraine Eden) , Law and Policy, Volume 27, No. 1, January, 2005.
“Original Approach and Original Insights,” Minnesota Journal of Global Trade, Volume 13, No. 2, Spring, 2004.
“Globalization by the Numbers,” International Studies Perspectives, November, 2004.
“The New Attack on Tax Havens: Will It Work, Will It Last?” (with Lorraine Eden), Stanford Journal of Law, Business, and Finance, Autumn, 2003.
“How Much Can EU Competition Policy Converge with US Policy?” (with Daniel Gifford), Antitrust Bulletin, Fall, 2003.
“Hegemony Strikes Out: The U.S. Global Role in Antitrust,
Tax Evasion, and Illegal Immigration,” International Studies Perspectives, February, 2003.
“Minnesota’s Unreformed Sales Tax,” CURA Reporter, Fall, 2002.
“The State is Not Losing Its Ability to Tax” Challenge, July-August,
2002.
“Differing National Merger Standards and the Prospects for International Cooperation” (with Daniel Gifford). In Daniel L.M. Kennedy and James D. Southwick, eds, The Political Economy of International Trade Law: Essays in Honor of Robert E. Hudec, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
“Minnesota as a Host for Foreign Direct Investment, CURA Reporter, Fall,
2001.
“International Political Economy and Public Policy Education.” In Michael Brecher and Frank Harvey, eds. International Relations in the New Millenium, University of Michigan Press, 2001.
“Does Regulation Affect Economic Outcomes?” (with Morris Kleiner), Journal of Law and Economics, October, 2000.
“Does Globalization Sap the Fiscal Power of the State?” in Aseem Prakash and Jeffrey Hart, eds. Coping With Globalization, Routledge, 2000.
Minnesota As A Host for Foreign Direct Investment: A Comparison With Other States, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota, 1999.
“Market Globalization and the Future Policies of the Industrial States,” in Jeffrey Hart and Aseem Prakash, eds., Globalization and Governance, Routledge, 1999.
“APEC as Partisan Mutual Adjustment” (with Davis B. Bobrow) in Mary Ann Tetreault and Kenneth Thomas, eds., Regionalism and Global Political Economy, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999.
“Aruba and the Challenge of Globalization,” Proceedings of the Third Aruba Economic Summit, Aruba: Ministry of Economic Affairs, 1999.
“Three Meanings of Globalization and Their Implications for Governance,” in Global Governance and Enforcement: Issues and Strategies, Raimo Väyrynen, ed., Rowman and Littlefield, 1998.
“International Espionage for Commercial Advantage,” (with Davis B. Bobrow) in Stuart S. Nagel, ed. Studies in Public Policy Analysis and Management, St. Martin’s Press, 1998.
“Competition Policy and Regional Integration: Compatibility and Conflict,” (with Davis B. Bobrow) Journal of International Political Economy, March 1998.
“Foreign Acquisition of Defense-Related U.S. Firms: Concentration, Competition and Reality,” (with Davis B. Bobrow), in Douglas Nigh and Douglas Woodward, eds., Beyond “Us” and “Them”: Foreign Ownership and U.S. Competitiveness, Quorum Press, 1998.
“Immigration Policy and National Prosperity,” Framtider International, July-August 1997.
“Economic Nationalism and the Global Economy,” in Iliana Zloch-Christy, ed., Eastern Europe and the World Economy: Challenges of Transition and Globalization, Edward Elgar Publishing, 1997.
“Should the U.S. Spy for Competitiveness?” (with Davis B. Bobrow), Business and the Contemporary World, VIII, 3-4, 1996.
“Three Perspectives on Competitiveness: An Introduction to ‘Made In America,’” The International Executive, July/August, 1996.
“The Foreign Investment Review Agency and U.S. Direct Investment in
Canada,” Transnational Corporations, Volume 4, Number 2, 1995.
“Markets, Governments, and Policy Congruence across the Atlantic,” in Roger Benjamin, Richard Neu and Denise Quigley, eds., Balancing State Intervention: The Limits of Transatlantic Markets, A Rand Study, St. Martin’s Press, 1995.
“Fairness, Efficiency and Opportunism in U.S. Trade and Investment Policy,” Chapter 7 in David Rapkin and William Avery, eds., National Competitiveness in a Global Economy, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1995.
“Regulating Multinational Enterprises in North America,” Chapter 15 in Lorraine Eden, ed., Multinationals in North America, The Industry Canada Research Series, University of Calgary Press, 1994.
“Economic Interdependence and Security: U.S. Trade and Investment Policy for a New Era,” (with Davis B. Bobrow), in Minnesota Journal of Global Trade, Volume 3, Issue 1 (Spring 1994).
“The North American Free Trade Agreement As an Element of U.S. Trade Policy” in M. Bognanno and K. Ready, eds., North American Free Trade: Labor, Industry and Government Policy Perspectives, 1993.
“No Entry: Official Controls on Direct Investment in the Developed Countries,” in Lorraine Eden and Evan Potter, eds., Multinationals in the Global Political Economy, Macmillan, 1993.
“Comment” on Lawrence B. Krause, “Can the Pacific Save the U.S.-Japan Economic Relationship?” in Commission on U.S.-Japan Relations for the Twenty-First Century, A Pacific Century: Exploring the Potential for Pacific Basin Cooperation (Washington: Commission for U.S. Japan Relations for the Twenty-First Century, 1991).
“The Challenge of Foreign Direct Investment: Europe in the Sixties and the U.S. in the Nineties” in Earl Fry and Lee H. Radebaugh, eds., Investment in the North American Free Trade Area, Brigham Young University Press, 1991.
“Mid-level Power Strategies for Changing International Niches: Experience in the Old World Order,” (with Davis B. Bobrow), Journal of East Asian Affairs, Summer/Fall, 1991.
“Good for the Gander? Foreign Direct Investment in the United States,” International Organization, Summer 1991.
“Progress for the Rich: The Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement” (with Stefanie Ann Lenway) in Emanuel Adler and Beverly Crawford, eds., Progress in Postwar International Relations, Columbia University Press, 1991.
“Japan In An Impatient World” (with Davis B. Bobrow), The American Oxonian, Spring, 1990.
“The G-7 After Hegemony: Compatibility, Cooperation and Conflict,” (with Davis B. Bobrow) in David Rapkin, ed., World Leadership and Hegemony, Lynne Rienner Publisher, 1990.
“The Success Trap: Japan’s Choices At Home and Abroad” (with Davis B. Bobrow), Futures, Summer, 1990.
“U.S. Policy and Japan: Beyond Self-Indulgence,” (with Davis B. Bobrow), Comparative Strategy, March 1990.
“Avoiding the Perils of Success: Japan Looks Ahead” (with Davis B. Bobrow), International Studies Notes, Winter, 1990.
“The Evaluation of State Programs for International Business Development” (with Cynthia M. Kite), Economic Development Quarterly, Autumn, 1989.
State Evaluation of Foreign Sales Efforts (with Cynthia M. Kite), Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota, 1988.
“How Mid‑Level Powers Can Manage Resource Weakness: Japan and Energy” (with Davis B. Bobrow), World Politics, July 1987. Reprinted in Mark W. Zacher, ed., The International Political Economy of Natural Resources, Edward Elgar Publishing, 1993.
“Antitrust and the Performance of the American Economy,” in F. Stevens Redburn, Terry F. Buss, and Larry C. Ledebur, eds., Economic Performance and Public Policy: Prospects and Problems in the 1980s, Praeger, 1986.
“The Political Economy of U.S. Trade Policy” in Paul Johnson and William Thompson, eds., Rhythms in Politics and Economics, Praeger, 1984.
“Excise Tax Incidence in Limit‑Price Oligopoly,” Public Finance, No. 3, l984.
“Disclosure Alternatives for the Multinational Enterprise and Their Consequences” (with Davis B. Bobrow), Journal of World Trade Law, September-October 1984.
“Cost‑Benefit and Cost‑Effectiveness Analysis” in Lawrence Meskin, ed., The Preventive Dental Health Program in Bermuda, World Health Organization, 1984.
“The Several Faces of the Multinational Corporation: Political Reaction and Policy Response,” Chapter 9 in W. Ladd Hollist and F. Lamond Tullis, eds., International Political Economy Yearbook, Westview Press, l984. Edited version reprinted as Chapter 15 in Jeffrey A. Frieden and David A. Lake, eds., International Political Economy, St. Martin’s Press, 1987. Reprinted in its entirety in Kendall W. Stiles and Tsuneo Akaha (eds.) International Political Economy: A Reader (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1991).
The Industrial Future of the Pacific Basin, edited with Roger Benjamin, Westview Press, 1984.
“Introduction” (with Roger Benjamin and Jennifer McCoy).
“The Correlates of Direct Foreign Investment in Developing Countries: Some Recent Evidence,” Chapter 8.
Reducing the Cost of Dental Care, edited with Lawrence Meskin, University of Minnesota Press, 1983.
“Introduction” (with Lawrence Meskin).
“Alternative Delivery Systems,” Chapter 2
(with Howard Bailit).
“Summary and Conclusion,” Chapter 7
(with Lawrence Meskin).
“U.S. Policy Toward Direct Foreign Investment” (with Davis B. Bobrow), World Politics, April 1982.
“The Implications of Foreign Dental Coverage for U.S. National Health Insurance,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, Winter 1981.
“Energy R & D: A Reply” (with Davis B. Bobrow), International Organization, Autumn 1980.
“Accountability Initiatives and Accountability Constraints: Bargaining Between the U.S. and the N.I.E.O.” (with Davis B. Bobrow and Robert P. Stoker), Jerusalem Journal of International Relations, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1980.
“The Development of Welfare States in North America,” (with T. R. Marmor) in Peter Flora and Arnold Heidenheimer, eds., The Development of Welfare States in Europe and America, Spectrum Books, 1980. Italian translation published by Il Mulino, Bologna, 1983.
“Prescription Drugs,” (with Karen Lennox), Ibid.
“Dental Care,” Chapter 12 in J. Feder, J. Holahan, and T. R. Marmor, eds., National Health Insurance: Conflicting Goals and Policy Choices, The Urban Institute, 1980.
“Energy R & D: In Tepid Pursuit of Collective Goods,” (with Davis B. Bobrow), International Organization, Spring 1979.
“The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment: A Question of Identification,” (with S. A. Hoenack and D. L. Sjoquist), Policy Analysis, Fall 1978.
“Contrived Scarcity: The Short Term Consequences of Expensive Oil,” (with Davis B. Bobrow and Dennis Pirages), International Studies Quarterly, December 1977.
“The Multinational Corporation, the Third World, and Competition Policy: Some Comments on Powelson,” in D. Irish, ed., The Multinational Corporation in Latin America, The Ohio University Press, 1977.
“The Political Economy of National Health Insurance: Policy Analysis and Political Evaluation” (with M. Kenneth Bowler and Theodore R. Marmor), Chapter 7, in K. Friedman and S. Rakoff, eds., Towards a National Health Policy: Public Policy and the Control of Health Care Costs, Lexington Books, D. C. Heath and Company, 1976. A revised version of this piece also appeared in the Summer 1977 issue of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, and in T. R. Marmor and J. Christianson, The Political Economy of Health Care, Sage Publications, 1982.