Center Director Robert T. Kudrle

Recent activities

• Did Blacklisting Hurt the Tax Havens?
• The OECD's Harmful Tax Competition Initiative and the Tax Havens: From Bombshell to Damp Squib
• Professor Kudrle Addresses the MSBA Antitrust Section

Professor Robert T. Kudrle is the Orville and Jane Freeman Professor of International Trade and Investment Policy and Director, Freeman Center for International Economic Policy.

Areas of expertise

Competition policy; tax policy; policy problems of globalization; international economic policy cooperation

Professor Kudrle also is an adjunct faculty member with the University of Minnesota Law School. He studies industrial organization, public policy toward business, and international economic policy. Much of his recent research has examined economic relations among industrial countries. He has served as a consultant and expert witness for the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and as a consultant to the Internal Revenue Service, Canadian Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs, U.N. Center on Transnational Corporations, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Agency for International Development, and Urban Institute. Kudrle has been vice president of the International Studies Association.