Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics

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Charles H Nelson

Associate Professor
Email: chnelson@illinois.edu
Phone: 217 333-1822

Education

M.S., Purdue University, 1981
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1986


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Teaching

ACE 501: Risk and Information: Theory and Applications
ACE 502: Demand, Supply, Firms and Households
ACE 530: Applied Production Economics
ACE 561: Advanced Research and Scholarly Communication

Research

Econometric analysis of agricultural production, analysis of production under risk and the influence of non-normal distributions, analysis of the social efficiency of agricultural investment and rural credit markets, and strategic marketing of food products.

Highlighted Publications

Carl H. Nelson and Cesar Escalante
Toward exploring the location-scale condition: a constant relative risk aversion location-scale objective function
Eur Rev Agric Econ 2004 31: 273-287