In her 1996 Presidential address to the American Economic Association, she explored the lack of congruence between successful trade and development policies enacted worldwide and prevailing academic views.

[2][3][4] Under her tenure as chief economist, the World Bank undertook very large multi-country comparative studies to understand the effects of trade.

She was also the founding director of Stanford's Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform; and a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution.

She served as First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from September 1, 2001, to August 31, 2006, serving as Acting Managing Director of the Fund on a temporary basis between March 4, 2004 (resignation of Horst Köhler), and June 7, 2004 (starting date for Rodrigo de Rato's mandate).

In the book, Struggling with Success: Challenges Facing the International Economy (2012), Anne Krueger takes a defensive stance on globalization and the role it has played on improving the world and the lives of the people on it as a whole.

Krueger places emphasis on the need to remove trade barriers and to deregulate domestic economies in the book Struggling with Success.

“That tool permitted negotiations to begin restricting and dismantling agricultural protection (p 63[11]).” These effective protection and cost benefit analysis gave politicians “empirical quantification, however rough, of their relevant magnitudes (p 63[11]).” Krueger states that research results should be “observable, hopefully quantifiable, and recognizable by the policy maker (p 64[11]).” The most prevalent danger for economists is for their theories to be misinterpreted by policy makers (p 64[11]).

[5] Rent seeking occurs when interest groups lobby for government favors in the form of tariffs, patents, subsidies, import quotas, and other market regulations.