Dr. Stolp's research focuses on western hemispheric economic integration, regional economics, and public sector productivity.

Professor Stolp chaired a state task force in the early 1990s on the impacts of the proposed North American Free Trade Agreement on Texas manufacturing and is currently directing a research project evaluating health and education programs in Brazil and elsewhere in Latin America. He serves as the Director of the Brazil Center at the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) and also of the Inter-American Policy Studies Program, a joint venture of the LBJ School and LLILAS. He has worked as a statistical and economics consultant for numerous public and private agencies in Texas and throughout Latin America.

Research methods, policy decision making, regional development, U.S.-Latin American relations, manufacturing, technology, and trade policy; Latin American development; applied statistics; information management.