Forrest Nelson 
 

Professor  
Department of Economics  
W386 PBAB  
University of Iowa  
Iowa City, IA 52242-1000  
forrest-nelson@uiowa.edu 

Joined the College of Business: 1980 

 

Education 
 

PhD, Economics, University of Rochester, 1975  
MS, Economics, University of Rochester, 1974  
BS, Agricultural Economics, Colorado State University, 1968  

Focus 
 

Econometrics  
Applied Microeconomics  

Expertise 
 

Qualitative and Limited Dependent Variables  
Political Stock Markets  

Current Projects 
 

Forecasting Elections  
Future Markets for Climate Markets  

Publications 
 

Coauthor, "The Anatomy of a Market: The IPSM," American Economic Review, December 1992. 
Coauthor, "The Explanation and Prediction of Presidential Elections: A Market Alternative to Polls," Laboratory Research in Political Economy, T.R. Palfrey, ed. (University of Michigan Press, 1991). 
Coauthor, "Forecasting the 1988 Presidential Elections: A Field Experiment," Research in Experimental Economics 4, R.M. Issac, ed. (JAI Press, 1991). 
Coauthor, "The Danger of Extrapolating Asymptotic Local Power," Econometrica, July 1990. 
Coauthor, "An Econometric Analysis of Changes in the Cost and Production Structure of the Trucking Industry, 1953-1982," The Review of Economics and Statistics, February 1988. 
 

Professional Activities 

Member:
American Statistical Association
Econometric Society

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