Susan Schroeder graduated with her PhD from the New School for Social Research in New York, where she trained with Duncan Foley, Anwar Shaikh, John Eatwell, Edward Nell, the late David Gordon, and the late Robert Heilbroner. Her current areas of research are international financial crises, business cycles, and financial fragility – and how these areas are linked to the country risk assessment. She has taught at the Graduate Faculty of the New School, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science of Art in New York, the University of Applied Science in Bremen, Germany, and Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. Prior to entering academia, Susan worked on Wall Street as the supervisor of special projects for the market research firm Information Resources, Inc.

• Financial fragility and crises
• Country Risk Assessment
• Business Cycle Theory and Measurement
• Alternative Macroeconomic Theories and Monetary Policies

‘Defining and Detecting Financial Fragility: New Zealand’s Experience’, International Journal of Social Economics, February 2009.

Review of A Biographical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Economists by John King (ed.), in Australian Economic History Review, November 2008.

‘The Underpinnings of Country Risk Assessment’, Journal of Economic Surveys, July 2008.

Review of Theories of Financial Disturbance: An Examination of Critical Theories of Finance from Adam Smith to the Present Day in Review of Political Economy, April 2007.

‘Comments on Hess’s Methodological Aspects of Credit Loss’, RBNZ workshop contribution, Reserve Bank of New Zealand, September 2006.

‘International Financial Crises and Financial Markets’ in Bass, H. (ed.) Facetten volkwirtschaftlicher Forchung: Festschift fur Dr. Karl Marten Barfuss, Munster, Lit Verlag 2004.

‘A Minskian Analysis of Financial Crisis in Developing Countries’, CEPA working paper No. 2002-9, Center for Economic Policy Analysis, New School for Social Research, New York, August 2002 and working paper No. 50, Institute for Institutional and Social Economics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, May 2003.

• ECOP2612 Economic Policy in Global Context

• ECOP6010 International Trade Regulation