Michael Moore is Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. He was the founding director of the Institute for International Economic Policy   Professor Moore received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison  and obtained a B.A. in Liberal Arts (Plan II) from the University of Texas at Austin.

He is currently on a research sabbatical.

Professor Moore's main area of research on trade policy. Recent research, completed along with Maurizio Zanardi, focuses on whether trade liberalization has affected the patterns of government spending in developing countries. Another work with Professor Zanardi focuses on antidumping procedures in the United States and among new users in the developing world.  He has recently collaborated with Maggie Chen, also of GWU, on how foreign direct investment is affected by firm level productivity. Professor Moore has also done work on the economics of the US and European steel industries, especially their adjustment to international competition and the growth of minimills.

He has had a joint appointment with the Elliott School of International Affairs and the Department of Economics at the George Washington University since receiving his doctorate in 1988. He served as associate dean of the Elliott School from 1995 through 1997 and was founding director of the International Trade and Investment Policy Program at the Elliott School. He also has taught international economics to US diplomats at the Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute.

Professor Moore served as Senior Economist for International Trade at the White House Council of Economic Advisers from July 2002 through July 2003 and as a consultant with CEA on steel trade policy through October 2003.

He teaches courses at the undergraduate, masters and PhD courses on international economics.  For a description of courses, please click here.  Professor Moore has also developed a series of Quicktime videos for students wishing to review economics topics.

Professor Moore's main area of research within trade is antidumping policy. His most recent research, completed along along with Maurizio Zanardi, focuses on antidumping procedures in the United States and among new users in the developing world.  He has recently collaborated with Maggie Chen, also of GWU, on how foreign direct investment is affected by firm’s productivity. Professor Moore has also done work on the economics of the US and European steel industries, especially their adjustment to international competition and the growth of minimills.

Professor Moore spent 1984-1985 as a graduate student at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel, Germany.  During 1994-1995, he was a Fulbright Scholar in Brussels at the Center for European Policy Studies and a German-Marshall Fellow at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (“Sciences-Po”) in Paris. In summer 1998, he was a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore.  Professor Moore frequently has taught a course on US Trade Policy to graduate students at Sciences-Po.

Professor Moore speaks German fluently and is proficient in French and Spanish.

He was born in Borger, Texas and moved to Baytown, Texas in 1963.  He graduated from Ross Sterling High School in 1975.