Robert Z. Aliber has written extensively about exchange rates, and international financial and banking relationships and policy problems. His publications include The Reconstruction of International Monetary Arrangements (ed., Macmillan, 1986), The Handbook of International Financial Management (ed. Dow Jones Irwin, 1989), Global Portfolios (co-editor, Business One Irwin, 1991), The New International Money Game (University of Chicago Press, 2000), The Multinational Paradigm (MIT Press, 2003), and Your Money and Your Life (Stanford Economics and Finance, 2010). He is a co-author of Money, Banking, and the Economy (Norton, First Edition, 1981, Fourth Edition 1990) and Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).

While at Chicago, he developed the Program of International Studies in Business and the Center for Studies in International Finance. He has consulted to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and to other US government agencies, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and to the research institutes and private firms, testified before committees of the Congress, and lectured extensively in the United States and abroad.