Douglas Nelson Professor Department of Economics Tulane University

Douglas Nelson

Professor
dnelson@tulane.edu
108 Tilton Memorial Hall
504-865-5317

Biography

Professor Nelson obtained his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1981. In addition to positions with the U.S. Treasury and The World Bank, he has held regular faculty positions at Rutgers University, University of Texas-Dallas, and Syracuse University, and has held visiting positions at Washington University in St. Louis, the Australian National University, the University of Nottingham, and Karl-Franzens-Universitat Graz.

He is currently an external fellow of the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy at the University of Nottingham. His primary research interests lie in the areas of political economy of trade policy, the empirical link between globalization and wages, and trade and trade policy under increasing returns to scale.

Interests

Political economy of trade

Contributions

Publications